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The gentle giant plays with a tiny mouse-- Of Mice and Men . The stricken executioner gets blessed by his beatific sacrifice-- Billy Budd . You could add a score of prison movies, along with E.T. (1982), Starman (1984), and even some vigilante pictures.
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"The Pope Stops the Hangman" was the main headline in at least two papers; and front-page cartoons included one in Milan's Corriere della Sera showing the pope sticking his crook into the back of a black-hooded executioner with his hands up, and another in Rome's La Repubblica with him unplugging an electric chair while telling the still strapped-in murderer, "I have commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment, so you will have all the time you need to repent."
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.
While there is extensive crosstalk between the caspases, the two most common initiator pathways are the Fas/Fas ligand pathway, involving caspase 8 and caspase 10, and the mitochondrial pathway, triggering caspase 9 [ 24 25 ] . Caspase 3, a pivotal downstream protease, functions in virtually every caspase pathway and serves as an executioner in the cells by cleavage of downstream targets which lead to irreversible chromosomal degradation.