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Tariq Aziz Sadaam Hussein s foreign minister and a Catholic has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity Is he guilty He says his was a political position and that he had no hand in murder and genocide The court disagreed He was sentenced last year to 15 years in prison for inv

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During the past month readers of America followed the pre-execution legal maneuvering to stop the Commonwealth of Virginia from carrying out the death sentence on a woman named Teresa Lewis Lewis was arguably mentally retarded and initially received poor legal representation her case was later tak

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The nbsp Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party has just responded to the ad that at first blush seemed anti-Catholic to say the least and which was picked up on several blogs--including this one nbsp It seems that it was not a hoax as some suspected but the first part of a two-page ad that well her