At the same time, the Government cracked down hard on the People's Mujahedeen, arresting thousands and executing hundreds, a move that resulted in a drastic reduction of the underground's operations in recent months.
Just as quickly as the Republicans had stampeded towards Bundy, they all then executed a move that would have won them the barrel race, by reining in and wheeling about in order to gallop furiously away.
Illinois has abolished the death penalty after two decades of deliberation on the grounds that the justice system could execute innocent people by mistake, in a move that is likely to renew calls for other US states to follow.
The European Commission has imposed tough new restrictions on the export of anaesthetics used to execute people in the US, in a move that will exacerbate the already extreme shortage of the drugs in many of the 34 states that still practice the death penalty.
In a move that temporarily thwarted Missouri's aggressive push to execute a death row inmate every month, the country's highest court granted an extended stay of execution on Wednesday night to Russell Bucklew, a convicted murderer and rapist.
As it is, this week the European Commission imposed tough new restrictions on the export of anaesthetics used to execute people in the US, a move that will exacerbate the already extreme shortage of the drugs in many of the 34 states that still practice the death penalty.
JERUSALEM -- The Gaza Strip's Hamas-led government on Thursday executed two Palestinians convicted of aiding Israel in the assassination of Palestinian militants, a move that highlighted the deep divisions that endure between the two main Palestinian political factions.
It was a move that would've been deadly in an SUV a tall vehicle simply cannot execute two changes of direction successively without inducing the kind of forces that can flip it over.
Mr. Leeson was a part-time college student and a journalist for The Hattiesburg American when he taped a broadcast from the lawn of the Laurel, Miss., courthouse where Willie McGee, a black handyman, was executed in a "traveling electric chair" that was moved around the state.
