Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three of the gunmen claimed to have escaped from Havana's La Cabana Fortress while under threat of execution.
Amirouche lived in the field with his guerrillas, seldom slept in one place for more than a few hours, eluded French patrols time and again with lightning mobility. As his legend grew, so did his delight in his own prowess. He affected strange headgear, often of black astrakhan, and gripped...
...placed him in a plain wooden coffin, and loaded him aboard a hearse for delivery to waiting relatives. By 1:55 a.m., all three prisoners were dead, and Marks's work was ended for the night. "Execution is not a pleasant task," says Castro's chief executioner, "but a necessary...
Later in the week, firing squads through the island shot 13 more men, raising the execution toll to 475. "War crimes" courts worked around the clock to clean up "hundreds of pending cases."
The dual nature of an architect as both an artist and a master of a technology poses a temptation to favour one aspect over the other. Yet it is obvious that one without the other leads to mere emptiness and in fact is impossible. As in any creative work the...