Word: executioner
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"Mr. Death," Errol Morris' new film, is subtitled "The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.," a formidable label that seems to imply a sort of melodrama that, while dramatic and intensely emotional, the work never really approaches. Instead, it is the disturbing, offbeat, and darkly comic story of...
Although the action of the film is Fred's story, his "rise" to being a successful execution technologist and his "fall" to being discredited, poor, and alone, the force at work the surface is thematic examination of the man's character, and what that character represents in a broader context...
Last month Abdullah Ocalan put pen to paper and wrote a letter from his Turkish prison cell. In it, he urged the European Union to look kindly on his jailers' application for membership to the 15-member economic and political community - an unusual action for a man who has spent...
Apart from sparing Ocalan, the E.U. factor may also help the Turkish leaders who oppose the execution prevail over their ultra-nationalist coalition partners. But not without some political cost, as was underlined on Thursday when two relatives of soldiers slain by Kurdish rebels attempted self-immolation in protest against...