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Indeed, in 1950 and 1951 an estimated three million people perished by execution, torture, or suicide.
For more than a year, the regime has been carrying out a purge of high-level officials, beginning with the
execution
of Kim’s uncle, Jang Song Taek, in 2013.
While he promoted parliamentary rule in England, ended the civil war, and allowed a degree of religious toleration, he also supported the trial and
execution
of Charles I and brutally conquered Ireland in response to a perceived threat from an alliance of Irish Catholics and English Royalists.
For example, on February 26, at a garment market in Benghazi, Libya, members of a powerful Islamist militia rounded up dozens of Egyptian Coptic Christians – identified by crosses tattooed on their right wrists – whom they then detained, tortured, and threatened with
execution.
It was recently expanded to include more than 100 institutions, which are working together to create detailed
execution
plans for each proposal.
The
execution
this week of the former head of China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), Zhen Xiaoyu, who accepted almost $1 million in bribes, shows that the frenzy has now seeped into China as well.
Why resort to such elaborate and costly measures against political/religious opponents when simpler methods of neutralizing them - such as
execution
or imprisonment - are available to dictators?
But because arrest no longer meant
execution
but long imprisonment, dissidents acquired a reasonable chance to emerge from prison or labor camps.
China’s Resurgent WarlordsOSAKA – Last December, the world was appalled by the North Korean government’s
execution
of Chang Song-thaek, an uncle-in-law of the young Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un and the regime’s de facto second in command.
Given Chang’s pivotal role in steering North Korea’s moribund economy, his
execution
raised serious doubts about the regime’s stability – raising fears of the collapse of a dynasty that possesses weapons of mass destruction.
But, ultimately, Chang’s
execution
really affected only one other country, North Korea’s only international ally: China.
Chang’s
execution
was thus a straightforward challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping – a move that, under normal circumstances, would prompt China to suspend, or at least reduce, its support for North Korea.
This has led to speculation that Chang’s
execution
was retaliation, endorsed by Shenyang, for Bo’s arrest and the ongoing purge of his supporters, including, most recently, Zhou Yongkang, the powerful former chief of internal security.
Hu Wenhai, a brave man from Shanxi who killed two corrupt officials, said before his execution, “Officials are forcing people to rebel.
Its
execution
will require more mutual trust than is currently on offer.
In fact, just last month, students at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University were arrested on charges of sedition, for using “anti-Indian” slogans in their protests against the
execution
of the convicted terrorist Afzal Guru.
Anti-Semites often cite a passage in Matthew in which a Jewish crowd cheers for Christ's
execution
and voluntarily accepts permanent guilt: "His blood be on us and on our children."
While normalization and the related downsizing of the ECB’s bond purchase program are part and parcel of the long-awaited recovery cycle in Europe, the modalities, magnitude, and speed of
execution
remain critical, especially when the post-crisis era is placed in historical context.
In reality, of course, QE – whether the expectation or
execution
of it – would affect both interest rates, and the inflation expectations that are derived from them.
Rather than receiving our information directly from institutional gatekeepers, who, despite often-flawed execution, were fundamentally committed to meeting editorial standards, today we acquire it via peer-to-peer sharing.
With the right policies, a relentless focus on execution, and a great deal of determination, Africa can still rise.
Consider President George H.W. Bush, who did not do “the vision thing,” but whose sound management and
execution
underpinned one of the most successful US foreign-policy agendas of the past half-century.
The tribunal’s Web site has video of an
execution.
And Medvedev is a key agent in its
execution.
From his prison cell awaiting his
execution
by Hitler’s Gestapo, Dietrich Bonhoeffer declared that we must all “share in God’s suffering.”
Set aside the fact that Assad’s forces have caused 10-15 times more civilian deaths thus far than the Islamic State, whose horrific
execution
videos have overshadowed the Syrian dictator’s invisible massacres.
As he awaited his approaching
execution
by the Nazis, Bonhoeffer wrote that, in prison, “the godlessness of the world is not...concealed but, rather, revealed, and is thus exposed to an unexpected light.”
The ferocity of the authorities’ anti-drug campaign, together with the extremely low threshold for yaba possession, means that even people who use drugs and low-level dealers could face
execution.
Saving three innocent lives for every person executed seems like a very attractive trade-off, and even two lives saved per
execution
seems like a persuasive benefit-cost ratio for capital punishment.
Admittedly, however, the argument in favor of capital punishment becomes less clear-cut as the number of lives saved per
execution
falls.
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