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(6 of 12) the planning and execution of a 1980 bombing attack that crippled the Arab mayors of two cities in the occupied West Bank. Three others have already pleaded guilty, and two army officers of the West Bank military government are being tried separately. Israelis have been shocked not...
The report came a week after U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene ruled that the Justice Department acted unlaw fully when it decided not to appoint a special prosecutor in the case. At the department's request, an appeals court has temporarily stayed the execution of Greene's...
It was, by all accounts, a particularly grisly execution. The hangman had to climb onto the shoulders of one of the students, who was so thin that he could not choke to death, in order to complete the work of the noose. To ensure that the spectacle was properly attended...
SOME OPPONENTS of capital punishment favor television coverage. They believe that if the public sees a person's life being taken, many will be shocked and morally outraged, and the numbers who favor the death penalty will decline substantially. This, too, is a naive belief. More often than not, dinner...
"My father was an organizer and resistance fighter in Southeast Pelopponeses." Haviaras recalls, "he was captured by the authorities [Nazis and Greek collaborators], and when my mother went to visit him she tried to have him sent to a concentration camp rather than face an immediate execution." He refused to...