Month: January 2004

  • State forgets to hang murderer


    An Indian man convicted for rape and murder has been on death row for 14 years because state authorities forgot to hang him.


    In March 1990 Dhananjay Chatterjee was arrested for the rape and murder of an 18-year-old girl in the eastern city of Calcutta, and sentenced to death.

    The president rejected his mercy petition, but Chatterjee was never hanged. The West Bengal state government woke up to the case last November when officials were going through old files.

    Inspector General of Prisons Joydev Chakraborty said the hanging would not be delayed much longer.

  •  For those of you who have shoplifted or know someone who has shoplifted at Wal-Mart, please be advised that all of your questions and concerns can be answered by calling the following number: 1-800-236-7428. Also for those shop lifters who are having financial difficulty, feel free to ask them about their payment plan. -rachelann26

  • Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

    Karl Marx
        --A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right



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    U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Cesar Castro of the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment with the 4th Infantry Division holds a cut-out of Elvis Presley at the hole from where the US military captured ex-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in Adwar, Iraq Monday, Jan. 26, 2004. Castro, carrying the life-size cardboard cutout, was the latest visitor to this muddy farming area that has become a tourist site of sorts since Saddam Hussein was pulled out of the underground bunker on Dec. 13 after nearly eight months on the run. (AP Photo/Cesar Castro)            

     

    Elvis, Castro Visit Last Saddam Hideout  

    By PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer

    ADWAR, Iraq - U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Cesar Castro, carrying a life-size cardboard cutout of Elvis Presley, was the latest visitor to this muddy farming area that has become a tourist site of sorts since Saddam Hussein was pulled out of an underground bunker.



    Castro, with the Tikrit-based 4th Infantry, put his arm around the shoulders of the glittering, gold suited Elvis and got his comrades to take his pictures in front of the former dictator's last hiding hole.


    "It seemed like a good idea to bring (a cutout) of Elvis to Saddam's hole to show that Elvis was even here," Castro said.

  • MAN DIES FROM PET EMISSIONS


    (Netherlands) - Police suspect that a man found dead in his home was poisoned by ammonia gas from the excrement of his pet parrots and ferrets that had been badly cared for.


    A spokesman said it appeared the victim had not cared for his parrots and ferrets well  It is suspected the animals' excrement was allowed to accumulate in the building over a long period of time and that it began releasing toxic amounts of ammonia.


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    The power of the ring thing

     

    By Richard Alwyn, This World
    Producer and director of American Virgins

     

    The Bush administration gave $120m to abstinence organisations last year.

     

    The tightrope that these groups must walk, however, is at the heart of the American constitution, which demands the separation of church and state.

     

    Many of the abstinence organisations, like the Silver Ring Thing which received $700,000 in federal funding, are faith-based groups.

     

    The Silver Ring Thing's ringmaster, Denny Pattyn, is an ordained minister. He believes that the end of the world is nigh and that Christ will return within a generation.

     Abstinence, he says, is a tool to reach young people for God, safeguarding them for the Second Coming.


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    Oldest U.S. Bank Robber Gets 12 Years in Prison

    LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - The oldest bank robber in the United States, 92-year-old J.L. Hunter Rountree, was sentenced to over 12 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to robbing $1,999 from a Texas bank last August.






     

    Rountree, who goes by the nickname "Red," said he robbed his first bank when he was about 80 because he wanted revenge against banks for sending him into a financial crisis.


    Rountree left a prison in Florida, where he was the oldest prisoner in the state, after serving a three-year sentence for a 1999 bank robbery in Pensacola.


    Rountree said that prison food was better than what was served at some nursing homes.

  • Von Hagens forced to return controversial corpses to China

    Luke Harding in Berlin
    Friday January 23, 2004
    The Guardian






    Prof Gunther von Hagens at the Edinburgh fringe
    Eye to eye: Prof Gunther von Hagens with one of his plastinated cadavers at the Edinburgh fringe. Photo: Murdo MacLeod.
     
    Gunther von Hagens last night agreed to return seven corpses to China after admitting that the bodies used in his exhibitions might have come from executed prisoners.

    Professor Von Hagens show Body Worlds provoked fascination and disgust when it opened in London two years ago.

    At least two corpses out of some 647 stored by the anatomist at his centre in China had bullet holes in their skulls.

    Speaking yesterday Prof Von Hagens, who earned the tabloid soubriquet Dr Frankenstein after performing a live televised autopsy, said: "I have told my Chinese employees that they can't accept bodies that were executed."

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    From Mudban

  • Too well-dressed to be abused
    From a correspondent in Madrid
    January 23, 2004

    A MOROCCAN man has been released after a Spanish court ruled his wife was too well-dressed during the trial to be a victim of domestic violence.

    Barcelona judge Francisco Collado said Latifa Daghdagh's "physical appearance during the three-day hearing, not only made up, but also dressed differently each day, with rings, fancy bracelets and earrings and large glasses ... does not coincide with the image of a woman who has suffered months of aggression."


    Daghdagh, 22, claimed she was beaten by her husband for six months before she finally fled, pregnant, to a women's shelter in Madrid.

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