Judge rules heat levels on Angola death row subject inmates to 'cruel and unusual punishment' Death row inmates incarcerated in unventilated cells and without access to cool water at Angola prison are being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, a federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled Thursday (Dec. 19).In a 102-page ruling handed down six months...
Dec. 19, 2013 - New Orleans Times-Picayune
Richard Holbrooke in Chandigarh Tribune Recounting a conversation with a mechanic who had been forced to abandon his home in Swat, Holbrooke said, "One man sitting in an unventilated tent with one of his wives and about seven of his 15 children ...... quite memorably, said to me, 'I used...
Stephen Colbert in The Swamp - Tribune's Washington Bureau (blog) Barr will represent the Libertarians on the presidential ballot - "a political party that believes that it is my right as an American to varnish in an unventilated room," Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert explains in this interview.