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• 1780: Corregidor Antonio de Arriaga, by his slave

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 426
  On this date in 1780, Incan-Peruvian indigenous leader Tupac Amaru launched his insurrection against the Spanish with the public execution of a Spanish corregidor . Antonio de Arriaga, as Spain’s man in Tungasuca, had as part of his job description forcing curacas to extract the crown’s tribute from the ...
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• John Allen Muhammad on the Eve of Death

  
  Man With the Muck-Rake — Authority: 134
  The Washington Post ran an article about the impending execution of the D.C. sniper. With John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks, scheduled to be executed tomorrow , Virginia voters are broadly in favor of the death penalty for those convicted of murder, according to new data from a ...
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• Chinese hold first Urumqi executions

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 148
  10/11/09; China has executed nine people over deadly ethnic unrest in its far-western Xinjiang region, regional authorities said last night, the first executions since the violence in July. “The first group of nine people who were sentenced to death recently have already been executed in succession, with the ...
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• China executes nine over Xinjiang unrest

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 148
  10/11/09; http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/china-executes-nine-over-xinjiang-unrest/story-fn3dxix6-1225795914593China has executed nine people over deadly ethnic unrest in its far-western Xinjiang region, regional authorities said, the first executions since the violence in July. “The first group of nine ...
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• NYT > World: China Executes 9 Over Ethnic Riots

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The executions, related to rioting in a western regional capital in July, were reported by a state news agency.
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• “Some people accumulate more emotional rust than others.” ~ Andrew Solomon, Noonday Demon

  
  Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings on Life, Love & Other Trifles — Authority: 122
  Movie Poster for Savage Grace“I’m living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there’s a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger, The [...]
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• LOC 11/9/2009: Junkfood Or Jihad?

  
  Left Of Center Podcasts — Authority: 136
  It’s Monday. Say, did anything important happen over the weekend? We cover health care, and the big mistake the GOP made this weekend that isn’t getting much play. and unnamed Muslim calls in to complain that he can’t blow us all up, and Nine goes off on Nancy Graceless vis a vis the Anthony Sowell case in ...
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• Supreme Court Declines to Block Execution of Washington Sniper

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  The Supreme Court declined to block the execution of John A. Muhammad, but three justices objected to the relative haste accompanying the execution.
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• In Kansas

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 510
  " Death penalty cases take time and scrutiny ," is the title of a lengthy examination of Kansas death penalty.  As with the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin series and the Louisville Courier-Journal article, both noted earlier today, this is a lengthy examination. Larry Williams expected to wait 10 years to see the death ...
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• China Executes 9 Over Ethnic Riots

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 141
  The executions, related to rioting in a western regional capital in July, were reported by a state news agency.
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• ohn Bradleys OpEd

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 510
  The OpEd, " Panel on forensic science to establish ground rules ," by John Bradley appeared in the Saturday Houston Chronicle. I am John Bradley, the elected district attorney in WilliamsonCounty and the new presiding officer of the nine-member Texas ForensicScience Commission. I am writing to introduce myself, ...
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• More on John Bradley

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 510
  " Surprises under Williamson DAs image ," is the title of Miguel Liscanos Austin American-Statesman report.  It appeared in the Sunday edition. Through 22 years as a prosecutor, the pasteight as Williamson County district attorney, Bradley has amassedconvictions and accolades, developing a tough-on-crime ...
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• Will Violence Have the Last Word at Fort Hood?

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 629
  Like so many across our country, I have been reeling about the news coming out of Ft. Hood, TX.  A friend and fellow conscientious objector, who is also co-founder of Centurion’s Guild , informed me via text message shortly after the…
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• China executes nine over Xinjiang riots

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Death sentences are the first carried out since violence erupted in July between Uighur Muslims and Han Chinese Nine men have become the first to be executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead, Chinese state media has reported. The worst ethnic unrest in decades began on 5 July when ...
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• In Pittsburgh Clerics united in opposition to death penalty

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  It could be the start of a groan-worthy joke. A Catholic priest, a rabbi, an Episcopal rector, a Methodist minister and a Lutheran pastor sit down for some interfaith dialogue. But yesterday at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in East Liberty, there was no joking about the discussion topic, the death penalty. ...
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• 1944: Georges Suarez, collaborationist editor

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 426
  On this date in 1944, the restored French Republic shot the editor of the collaborationist newspaper Aujourd’hui ( Today ). Suarez ’s (linked page in French) writings (French again) had endorsed the German occupation and called for steps even beyond what the Germans were prepared to take: the wholesale ...
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• On November 8

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 481
  On this day in ... ... 1965 , in Britain, the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 was adopted. It began with these words: No person shall suffer death for murder, and a person convicted of murder shall . . . be sentenced to imprisonment for life. It thus ended capital punishment for the crime of murder. ...
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• This is no time to celebrate

  
  American Street — Authority: 419
  We’re one step closer to making affordable healthcare available to most people in this country. That is, however, not yet a guarantee. If the Senate follows through without adding any other debaucheries to the end result, that’ll be a huge surprise, so I’m not pulling out any party balloons. And as I commented ...
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• 1845: Lavinia Burnett and Crawford Burnett

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 426
  On this date in 1845, husband-and-wife murderers Crawford and Lavinia Burnett (nee Sharp) danced a gallows jig built for two in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The duo contrived with their son, John, to rob and murder a nearby recluse, Jonathan Selby, for the money he was thought to be hoarding. The family the slays ...
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  Talk Islam — Authority: 526
  Al Shabaab applies its own ruthless brand of justice again. Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka. An official from the ...
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