including torture,public executions, collective punishment, and the imposition of the death penalty for political and religious reasons.

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"I have to say I have probably changed my feelings about the death penalty.

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After these latest sentences were handed down, UDJ spokesman Siye Abraha questioned the death penalty in what he called a 'political case.' "The overall problem in the country is political and the solution is basically political.

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You are reading these things and this kind of dark mood sets over you and again, whether you are for or against the death penalty, that is not my point it is that sifting through enough of that sort of puts that mood on you,".

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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."

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