The Vietnamese government is considering abandoning firing squads as a method of execution because up to a third of policeman miss their target due to nerves.
The Communist state, which has executed about 60 people so far this year, is considering lethal injections or a mechanized gun as alternatives. Bui Duc Long, head of the Supreme Prosecution Institute’s execution inspection department, said a mechanized gun was the favoured method. “The executioner will have to just push a button,” he said. “if we use poison it takes time for it to work and it causes suffering to the condemned prisoner.”
Why do I doubt Bui Duc Long has the suffering of the condemned prisoners uppermost in his mind?
How do you say CBC in Dutch?
Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch anti-immigration populist who was killed by an animal rights activist in 2002, took the lead yesterday in television contest to choose the “greatest Dutch person.” He overtook Willem Drees, a post-war prime misiter, and William the Silent, who fought for Dutch independence in the 16th century and was assassinated.
Do you think Don Cherry might have a chance there?
An Edmonton MP who complained in the House of Commons recently of the government waste over funding a film about searching for the “perfect penis” has turned down the filmmaker’s offer to appear in that film.
Toronto Filmmaker, Mr. Michael McNamara’s film, Dementia: Search for the Perfect Penis,received financing from the Canadian Television Fund though if Mr. McNamara’s
film makes a profit the equity grant must be repaid.
Always nice to see a local man get a head.
The cash-strapped federal gun registry will miss out on more that $46 million in fees from gun owners this year by giving away 770,000 free licence renewals so that bureaucrats can catch up on their paperwork.
The gun registry started January 1, 2001, so tell me again, why do we need a gun registry and when will it be functional?
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