Tales abounded of torture, lengthy jail terms without a fair trial, executions and disappearances.
I truly look forward to reading Gore Vidal's article in Vanity Fair after the execution of Timothy J. McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber.
Whatever Catiline was really up to (and there is still disagreement about how far the "reds under the bed" were a figment of Cicero's conservative imagination or paranoia), every Roman citizen had the fundamental right to due process and fair trial; summary execution contravened the most basic of civil liberties, then as now.
The Task Force identified only one study that they felt had a fair quality of execution, and therefore concluded that the evidence was insufficient to determine the effectiveness of cultural diversity training for healthcare providers.
That means arrest and fair trial, not summary execution.
"Duggan was a gangster not Nelson Mandela," wrote the Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn, ignoring the fact that even if he was, he would still be entitled to a fair trial rather than summary execution.
Since the United States is almost the last modern, first-world country to put captive human beings to death in the ghastly ritual of a legal execution, it is fair to argue that this killing really is cruel and unusual.
Historian Richard B. Sherman states that she became involved after receiving a letter from Murray, which prompted her to write Governor Price requesting that he investigate whether Waller had received a fair trial and delay the execution.
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Iran's Kurdish community (like most Kurdish communities) has, through the years, suffered some pretty hefty human rights violations, ranging from summary arrests of peaceful political activists to executions without a fair trial.
