Word: executioner
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Ba Cut underwent three trials for murder; each time he was condemned to death. When Diem refused to pardon him, Ba Cut asked to be shot like a soldier. One night last week 32-year-old Ba Cut wrote a farewell letter, asking his parents to care for the innumerable...
Ba Cut walked resolutely forward, placed his body on the execution platform. As dawn came to Cantho cemetery, the blade swished down and General Ba Cut's head rolled into one basket, his body into another.
In painting, however, the preponderance of entries were clearly non-traditional in conception and execution. This was evidently a good thing, for the exhibit was as a whole the finest yet in its category.
In making the film, Disney not only stuck fairly close to the facts but was even courageous enough to dispense with a love story. About the only women in sight are relegated to such menial jobs as waiting on table. Sturdy Fess (Davy Crockett) Parker trades in his coonskin cap...
One of the two top plotters, General Juan José Valle, died in front of the rifles. The other, General Raul Tanco, escaped in disguise to asylum in the Haitian embassy. Pro-government vigilantes, waving machine guns, kidnaped him from his refuge and turned him over to the army for...