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But ill-equipped and poorly led UN replacement forces for the American presence put the remaining US troops in the bull’s eye as they attempted to bring to justice the Somali warlord responsible for the death of Pakistani peacekeepers.
But free hemoglobin can wreak havoc in the human body, causing hypertension, cardiac arrest, or even death.
No one shall be condemned to the death penalty, or executed.”
Death and taxes may have been the only certainties in the world of Benjamin Franklin two centuries or so ago; today, only death remains undeniable.
This has been accompanied by cascades of populist rhetoric: loud voices and defiant words, and promises to fight to the death against ill-defined but malignant economic special interests.
They built the first major public hospitals at a time when home births and other home care spread contagion and death.
2.During a recent visit by U.N. human rights chief Mary Robinson, Ireland’s former president, Iran pledged not to sponsor attempts to kill Salman Rushdie, the author of the “Satanic Verses” who was sentenced to death by the late Ayatollah Khomeini for blasphemy against Islam.
As lives have gotten longer and lifestyles have changed, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and respiratory ailments have taken hold, becoming far and away the world’s leading causes of death.
And the death toll continues to rise.
Untreated, diabetes causes conditions that make it impossible to work and often lead to early death.
Ronald Reagan's death forced many people to confront once again the legacy of Central America's brutal wars in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua of two decades ago.
The Death Penalty – AgainPRINCETON – Three significant events relating to the death penalty occurred in the United States during September.
Davis’s death sentence was carried out despite serious doubts about whether he was guilty of the crime for which he received it.
Texas Governor Rick Perry was reminded that during his term of office, the death penalty has been carried out 234 times.
As September drew to a close, the US Supreme Court reached its decision in the case of Manuel Valle, who had been sentenced to death 33 years earlier.
Valle had asked the court to halt his execution, on the grounds that to spend so long on death row is “cruel and unusual punishment” and therefore prohibited by the US constitution.
In support of that view, he pointed to “barbaric” conditions on death row, and the “horrible” feelings of uncertainty when one is under sentence of execution but does not know whether or when the sentence will be carried out.
Breyer then went on to document the fact that so long a period on death row is also unusual.
It was, in fact, a record, although the average length of time spent on death row in the US is 15 years; in 2009, of 3173 death-row prisoners, 113 had been there for more than 29 years.
The US is now the only Western industrialized nation to retain the death penalty for murder.
The European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights regards the death penalty as a human-rights violation.
The death penalty is not an effective deterrent.
In the US itself, the 16 states that have abolished the death penalty generally have lower murder rates than those that retain it.
Retribution is often seen as a more important justification for the death penalty.
Less than ten years after Herzl’s death, however, it did collapse in the carnage, nationalisms, revolutions and counterrevolutions of the Great War and its aftermath.
Last year, at least two young women in Sudan were sentenced to death by stoning.
For many girls and women, non-marital sex remains worse than death.
Despite massive evidence of the widespread death, poverty, suffering, and dysfunction she and her late husband, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, inflicted on the Philippines, the only real disappointment she has subsequently endured has been losing the last presidential election she was allowed to contest.
Honest, daring, and sad, Alexievich’s books – containing stories in which life, broken and stolen, is worse than death – show how a woman’s perspective can humanize world problems and make them understandable to all.
On that spot, that Golgotha of modern times, he called the Poles, who remembered dear ones gassed to death in Auschwitz's crematoria as well as those frozen into glass in Siberia's concentration camps, to a brotherhood devoted to struggle against even justified hatred and revenge.
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