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Post-Iraq any of us can download real life executions in the space of a few minutes - all of which would incalculably exceed the horror depicted here.
The totalitarian state portrayed in the film gleefully broadcasts the executions of undesirables (1300 in 6 hours one time, if I remember correctly) such as, in the case we get to see, a man who has committed the mortal sin of being a librarian.
Meanwhile, entire scenes are lifted from Pulp Fiction: the cat accidentally being killed (paralleling Marvin's unfortunate fate in Pulp Fiction), the bible quotes before executions, and the constant oh-so-cleverly random conversations that don't come close to stuff Tarantino probably wrote in Grade school.
Two more names we've never heard of (I can't imagine why) Conrad Asquith and Nadia Straham play a couple of performance artists who like to shock their audience by showing footage of executions.
I don't think it's the place of popular cinema to use real newsreel footage of executions to titillate the audience.
The only logical next step to is televise executions.
Although the movie has some light parts in it, it's not light enough to replace all the killings and the executions in the movie.
During the last days of World War II, as the soviets' bombs explode closer and closer as the days go by, the routine of concentration camp Awschwitz follows its course and represents the focus of this picture: the atmosphere of dread and death inhabiting the heavy air, the work inside the crematorium, the random executions of men, women and children,and the drama of the Jewish sonderkommando, a group formed by prisoners who, in exchange of better food and clothes, helped their tormentors in the systematic of death inside the camps, guiding the new arrived prisoners through the corridors that lead to the gas chambers, and the disposal of the bodies after wards, just to be killed some time latter.
Finally, you can hardly go wrong with the subject matter of medieval witch-hunting, political corruptness, vile torture footage and robust executions.
Duvall is a hitman who's hired to fly to Argentina and kill a former general who presumably was responsible for tortures and executions of innocent people during the troubles of the 1970's and 1980's.
The Islamic State is now employing a similar strategy, mixing ruthless military operations with an incendiary social-media campaign, punctuated by photos and videos of brutal executions, including the beheading of US and other Western citizens.
Every bloody day of bombings and executions in Iraq reminds Arabs that the Iranians are neither Arab nor Sunni.
And, indeed, the last three executions in the country stemmed from terrorist offenses that threatened or took a large number of lives.
The real Che, who spent most of his time as Castro’s central banker supervising executions, deserves to be better known.
No other governor in modern times has presided over as many executions.
But what is more remarkable is that some audience members applauded when the high number of executions was mentioned.
He replied that he did not lose any sleep over the executions, because he had confidence in the judicial system in Texas.
The idea that the families of murder victims cannot obtain “closure” until the murderer has been executed seems not to be a universal human truth, but a product of a particular culture – perhaps not even American culture as a whole, but rather the culture of the American South, where 80% of all executions take place.
Peace, and the safety of millions of Americans, would then depend on the prudence and rationality of North Korea’s 33-year-old dictator, Kim Jong-un, a young man with a taste for grotesque executions of family members and close associates.
Those criteria must include the parties’ willingness to allow humanitarian aid to flow to all Syrian civilians under their control and an end to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including systematic targeting of medical personnel, starvation of populations under siege, and executions of war prisoners.
Subsequent executions of Jang’s entourage and advisers, the recall of Jang’s associates from posts abroad, and the attempted kidnapping in France of the son of one of his assistants attest to the level of alarm in Kim’s inner circle.
If that connection proves faulty, it will not work, and Mexicans may question the point of a “war” that has more than doubled the number of gangland executions, from 2,000 in 2006 to 5,000 in 2008, when their children, statistically at least, are not in harm’s way.
Ugly executions of military and other captives have undoubtedly occurred in Mosul, Tikrit, and other cities seized by ISIS.
According to Harm Reduction International’s research, of the 33 countries that retain the death penalty for drug offenses, only a handful – mainly Saudi Arabia and China – actually carry out executions.
For example, drug-related executions in Iran fell dramatically after judicial reforms late last year (although the country still applies the death penalty for other offenses).
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena recently said that his country would end a 42-year moratorium on executions and begin killing people convicted of drug crimes.
Around the world, countries are recognizing that executions, much less extrajudicial killings, have no effect on the drug trade.
Instead, the world is responding to graphic images of unspeakable brutality – torture by the regime or executions carried out by the opposition – with sterile shows of outrage.
By joining a new Alliance for Torture-Free Trade, governments will agree to establish national export bans on products used for torture or executions, while further empowering their customs authorities to enforce the prohibitions.
It is an active participant in multilateral institutions such as the International Commission and World Congress Against the Death Penalty, and it has been mobilizing support within the UN for a global moratorium on executions.
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