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However, legend says that, just as the executioner raised his sword, a lightning bolt struck and broke it in two.
Taking something away, we cart it off; and scandals fester until the tumbrels roll, the executioner's carts of the French Revolution.
In Hong Kong, the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review reported Thursday that the chief executioner of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge has become a born-again Christian and is willing to face an international tribunal.
It is unthinkable, of course, that Talbot--a journalist, as well as commander, grand high executioner, and maximum leader--would have lied to Newsweek . Especially when Salon "executives" gave the same $6 million figure to the Los Angeles Times in June.
The essential step in plasma membrane destabilization and MP-release very likely is a caspase-dependent sphingomyelin hydrolysis, which leads to the production of ceramide [ 28 29 30 ] . It is possible, however, that sphingomyelin hydrolysis and MP-release may be a consequence of the action of initiator caspases or other ZVAD sensitive proteases rather than only executioner caspases [ 15 31 32 ] . Our study was performed in HUVEC culture, which may have particular properties in respect of MP release when compared with endothelial cells from other organs.