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Amin, 48, long ago eliminated any semblance of freedom in Uganda. Parliament was abolished (he rules by decree and was recently named President for Life), the judiciary and civil service were completely purged, and the military was given extraordinary powers of arrest and summary execution. Soldiers frequently loot shops, commandeer...
Not All Doomed. As a result, no fewer than 35 states, as well as Congress, drafted new death-penalty laws, partly in the hope of stemming the increase in violent crimes. The fact that 70% of the states took such actions was, for Stewart, a "marked indication of society'...
How this applies to specific prisoners seemed almost to be a matter of luck. Mandatory death penalties in 20 states, which have 278 death-house prisoners, are now apparently void. On the other hand, 310 prisoners are under death sentence in 14 states with laws much like those that the...
Gore and Sadism. These massive doses of gore and sadism can, of course, be modishly defended. The artist must be granted his subject; only his execution of it is up for review. Lieberman is simply following the novelistic tradition (begun by Daniel Defoe) of piling up the minutiae in order...
In its emphasis on the idea that legitimate power must be "just power," the Declaration thus states a people's right to dissolve any government that has become tyrannical. In great measure, this idea draws upon the examples of Great Britain's own revolutions of 1642 and 1688 ?winch...