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Sunday's Los Angeles Times reports that according to a recently released man, Iraqi prisons have been the site of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of executions of political prisoners and common criminals in the latter part of 1997.
So were many of Stalin's most bestial orders for mass executions.
The fort has somber associations for the city: Its cannons bombarded the population to put down rebellions in the 18th and 19th centuries, and it was the site of political executions, including that of Lluís Companys, president of the Generalitat of Catalonia during the Civil War, who was shot by a firing squad in 1940.
The death penalty/McVeigh cover story also concludes that executions don't solace victims' families.
(By the way, the ACLU claims that there have been 581 U.S. executions since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.