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  • Palestinian vendor shot dead in Ein el-Hilweh camp

    02/24/2003 1:50:34 PM PST · by knighthawk · 3 replies · 225+ views
    A Palestinian vegetable vendor was shot dead at dawn Monday at a market in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, less than 24 hours after two Syrian workers were wounded in a bomb explosion, Palestinian and Lebanese officials said. Abed Hourani, 44, was found dead in the vegetable market at the Ein el-Hilweh camp on the outskirts of the southern port city of Sidon, the officials said, according to AP. Hourani was killed by a single bullet to the head fired by an unknown attacker, the officials said. The motive for the killing was not immediately known. A Palestinian official in...
  • Court Rules Insane Inmate Can be Executed

    02/10/2003 8:41:53 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 6 replies · 191+ views
    Newsday.com ^ | 2/10/03 | Kelly P. Kissel - AP
    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A federal appeals court Monday ruled that a paranoid schizophrenic inmate who is sane only when forced to take medication is eligible for death row. A sharply divided 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay of execution for Charles Singleton, saying his medically induced sanity makes him eligible for execution. Singleton's defense had argued it was in his best interest to take anti-psychotic medicine -- until the resulting sanity put him on the path to Arkansas' death chamber. His lawyers asked that the sentence be reduced to life in prison.
  • Freep Foxnews!

    12/19/2002 7:57:11 AM PST · by ConservativeMan55 · 36 replies · 408+ views
    Foxnews
    Lets Freep Foxnews and answer the question of the day they have posed. Foxnews ran a clip of Jane Fonda in Israel with the Left Wing Group "Peace Now" and then showed people protesting and heckling her. Then they brought up their question of the day which was Should Traitors be executed? Bwahahaha! 1-888-8-355-369 Or feedback@foxnews.com
  • Hero's welcome for executed man (Aimal Kasi)

    11/18/2002 2:31:25 PM PST · by knighthawk · 22 replies · 217+ views
    News24.com ^ | Mazhar Abba
    Quetta, Pakistan - The body of Mir Aimal Kasi, who was executed in the United States last week for murdering two CIA agents, was greeted in his native city on Monday by crowds of supporters waving black flags, cursing the US and vowing to avenge his death. A plane carrying Kasi's coffin and two of his brothers who had escorted it from the US touched down in Quetta, the capital of the tribal-dominated desert province Baluchistan, just before 15:30. Hundreds of supporters wearing headbands inscribed with the words "Aimal Kasi, Martyr" greeted the flight, shouting angry slogans to denounce the...
  • Convicted killer executed in Arafat's compound as Cabinet convenes

    08/07/2002 6:20:57 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 6 replies · 205+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 8-7-02 | HADEEL WAHDAN
    <p>RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) --  A Palestinian firing squad on Wednesday executed a convicted killer and rapist in the courtyard of Yasser Arafat's compound.</p> <p>The execution took place as Palestinian Cabinet ministers were arriving for a meeting. Reporters covering the Cabinet session heard the burst of gunshots.</p>