Furnace Creek is the largest area of human activity within Death Valley National Park.

VOA: special.2009.08.26

"From dust we have come, to dust we shall return. In no way would this diminish all those very important human dimensions to the experience of death.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Human-rights groups say the death toll was at least 15.

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we are human beings,'". Khalaf says that before working on this book, she never thought much about the death penalty, but she was deeply touched by reading the stories of men who often grew up in broken homes and who,as one inmate says, "became lost souls as children."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21