http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Sierra Thu, 23 May 2013 20:37:17 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Sierra Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:50:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=98c_1367372513 copperdog3 Source: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/04/case-worker-illegal-aliens-got-food-stamps-by-the-vanload/ For decades the U.S. government has knowingly given illegal immigrants food stamps, according to a former certification case worker who denounced the costly practice back in the 1980s but was essentially ordered to keep a lid on it. The retired assistant case manager, Craig McNees, was in charge of vetting food-stamp applicants in north Florida and Indiana in the '80s and says the program was infested with fraud and corruption that was perpetually ignored by management. "Illegals would come in by the vanload and we were told to give them their stuff," McNees said. "Management knew very well they were illegal. It was so rampant that some employees would tell their illegal relatives to come get food stamps." McNees contacted Judicial Watch after reading documents obtained by JW from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) detailing how the agency is working with the Mexican government to promote participation by illegal aliens in the U.S. food stamp program. The effort includes a Spanish-language flyer provided to the Mexican Embassy by the USDA ensuring that Mexicans in the U.S. don't need to declare their immigration status to get financial assistance from Uncle Sam. The documents ignited outrage considering the nation's food stamp program has exploded under President Obama, who claims there are too many "food insecure households" in America. To correct the problem the administration has spent millions on ad campaigns promoting food stamps and has rewarded states with multi-million-dollar bonuses for signing up recipients. It's been quite effective because American taxpayers spent an astounding $80.4 billion on the program in 2012 and a record number of people-46 million and growing-get free groceries from Uncle Sam. The retired case worker who contacted JW says in the three years he worked in a Sarasota food-stamp office, he found more than 500 cases of fraud but management ignored them all instead pushing a yearly quota. "They just said that if we don't give out as many as last year, we don't get our money," McNees said. "It was crazy, like a three-ring circus; like the inmates were running the asylum." Decades later it seems little has changed as Obama promotes the program like there's no tomorrow. In fact, last summer a federal audit revealed that many who don't qualify for food stamps receive them under a special "broad-based" eligibility program that disregards income and asset requirements. That means American taxpayers are getting stuck with a multi-million-dollar tab to feed hundreds of thousands who can well afford to feed themselves. Adding insult to injury, last spring the USDA Inspector General revealed that many food-stamp recipients use their welfare benefit to buy drugs, weapons and other contraband from unscrupulous vendors. Some trade food stamps for reduced amounts of cash, the USDA watchdog told Congress, disclosing that the fraud has cost taxpayers nearly $200 million. None of this surprises McNees, who claims he witnessed so much fraud as a food-stamp case worker that he "could write a book." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=98c_1367372513 copperdog3 Case worker: Illegal aliens got food stamps by the &quot;vanload&quot; food stamps, illegal, fraud, outrage, bravo sierra, infraction point, infraction point, and infraction point Wed, 15 May 2013 12:25:12 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75c_1368634950 Donegal Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film directed, produced, and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The film is set in the fictional midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois. On Halloween, six year old Michael Myers murders his older sister by stabbing her with a kitchen knife. Fifteen years later, he escapes from a psychiatric hospital, returns home, and stalks teenager Laurie Strode and her friends. Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis suspects Michael's intentions, and follows him to Haddonfield to try to prevent him from killing. The limited budget also dictated the filming location and time schedule. Halloween was filmed in 21 days in the spring of 1978 in South Pasadena, California and Sierra Madre, California (cemetery). An abandoned house owned by a church stood in as the Myers house. Two homes on Orange Grove Avenue (near Sunset Boulevard) in Hollywood were used for the film's climax. The crew had difficulty finding pumpkins in the spring, and artificial fall leaves had to be reused for multiple scenes. Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is sometimes given the distinction of also starting the slasher craze and preceding Halloween in originating the stylistic techniques as well as the usual plot devices. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, released five years prior to Halloween, has several things in common with the film: a group of free-spirited teenagers falling into the clutches of a sadistic, weapon-wielding masked villain ( Leatherface ) with a lone heroine. The film has also gone onto significantly influence the horror genre, much like Halloween. Several subsequent films with similar stylistic elements and themes became popular with audiences, including Friday the 13th, and later, A Nightmare on Elm Street . http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75c_1368634950 Donegal Halloween 1978 - How it Looks Now 2013 - Filming Location Halloween, Herve Attia Thu, 09 May 2013 06:08:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d2c_1368093921 Buzz1964 On April 22nd 2013 (World Earth Day) EVA from Tauranga, New Zealand became the first cow to go to the edge of Space and back again. Launched from a site in the Eastern Sierra Nevada desert she hitched a ride on a space weather balloon to 120,000 feet, and then parachuted back to Earth. EVA landed in the hottest place on Earth, where members of Earth to Sky Science club led by Dr. Tony Phillips spent over 18 hours rescuing her from the jaws of Death Valley. EVA's amazing adventure was captured on HD video. Music is - Space Explorers and Spacial Winds, both by Kevin MacLeod http://www.eol.co.nz/eva for more info http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d2c_1368093921 Buzz1964 Cow Goes to SPACE- 1080P HD Cow, Mooo, space, out there Thu, 02 May 2013 17:35:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b71_1367530055 Scarrfo A father, torn apart by grief over the death of his two-year-old son, was subdued with a Taser by police. The Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed that the boy suffered sharp- and blunt-force trauma to the head and neck, consistent with a dog attack.It happened at the scene of gruesome pit bull attack in south Fulton County. Police said they followed the right procedures. They said the father was desperately trying to get into his home to see his son. Police said they asked him stay back, but he refused, so they used a Taser on him. The father was beside himself with grief after learning the family pit bull mauled his little boy inside his own home on Sierra Trail. Sgt. Scott McBride, a spokesman with the Fulton County Police Department, said the father was distraught yet very aggressive. "He wanted to get inside to see his child," McBride said. "His two-year-old son was just killed, and we understand that." Officers repeatedly told the father to stay back, but McBride said the man refused to listen. "He told our officers, 'You'll have to shoot me. I'm going to see my son,'" McBride said. Police used a Taser on him. "This is one of those parts of the job we don't like doing. But we have to protect the crime scene until we know what has happened. We must look at all the possibilities. We can't contaminate the crime scene," McBride said. "When you go hands-on, you never know what's going to happen. It's easy to poke an eye out or knock out a tooth accidentally," McBride said, justifying his officers' actions. "At the time, it seemed like the best way for our officers to handle it." Neighbors said they are not sure what police should have done, but they said they sympathized with the little boy's father. "When it's your own child, you go through something like that, you're going to be angry, upset, and you're going to want to see your child for the last time," said Kendra Clopton, a neighbor. "He was already hurting from the loss, then to have to go through that, the images haunt me," said Lakisha Moss, another neighbor. Police said the father was physically unharmed. CBS Atlanta News repeatedly called Fulton County Animal Control to ask if the dog would be destroyed, but the agency did not return the calls. My personal view is that law enforcement made a tough, but good call on this one. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b71_1367530055 Scarrfo Pitbull Kills 2 Year Old __ Dad Gets Tasered pitbull Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:01:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c29_1366773119 BloodyPeasant Original Description: Brian Shul takes the stage at LeWeb Paris 2012 and shares his inspiring story about barely surviving a jet crash, spending a year in the burn ward and then having the opportunity to be one of the few people in the world to fly the SR-71 Blackbird jet plane. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Gyd6EYuXI Total runtime: 58 minutes, 8seconds File Size: 830mb Resolution: 720p Estimated date: December 2012 Brian Shul (born 1948), is a Vietnam-era USAF fighter pilot and a retired major in the United States Air Force (USAF). He flew 212 combat missions and was shot down near the end of the war. He was so badly burned that he was given next to no chance to live. Surviving, he returned to full flight status, flying the SR-71 Blackbird. Major Brian Shul completed a 20 year career in the Air Force. He has written four books on aviation and runs a photo studio in Marysville, California. Biography Brian Shul was born in Quantico, Virginia, in 1948. He graduated from Radford High School in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1966 and from East Carolina University in 1970 with a degree in History. That same year he joined the Air Force and attended pilot training at Reese AFB in Texas. Shul served as a Foreign Air Advisor in the Vietnam War, flying 212 close air support missions in conjunction with Air America. Near the end of all hostilities, his AT-28 aircraft was shot down near the Cambodian border. Unable to eject from the aircraft, Shul was forced to crash land into the jungle. After surviving, he suffered severe burns in the ensuing fireball. Crawling from the burning wreckage, he was finally found and rescued by an Air Force Pararescue team. He was evacuated to a military hospital in Okinawa where he was expected to die. Barely surviving 2 months of intensive care, in 1974 he was flown to the Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. During the following year, he underwent 15 major operations. During this time he was told by physicians that he'd never fly again and was lucky to be alive. Months of physical therapy followed, enabling Shul to eventually pass a flight physical and return to active flying duty. Two days after being released from the hospital, Brian was back flying Air Force fighter jet aircraft. He went on to fly the A-7D, and was then selected to be a part of the first operational A-10 squadron at Myrtle Beach, SC, where he was on the first A-10 air show demonstration team. After a tour as an A-10 Instructor Pilot at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, he went on to instruct at the Air Force's Fighter Lead-In School as the Chief of Air-to-Ground Academics. As a final assignment in his career, Shul volunteered for and was selected to fly the SR-71. This assignment required an astronaut type physical just to qualify, and Shul passed with no waivers. Shul's comeback story from lying near dead in the jungle of Southeast Asia, to later flying the world's fastest, highest flying jet, has been the subject of numerous magazine articles.Empty citation http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c29_1366773119 BloodyPeasant (SR71) Brian Shul Shares his Story of Flying an SR-71 Brian Shul Shares his Story of Flying an SR-71 blackbird, sr71, faster than hell, cool as ice, I want one Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:18:11 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=01c_1365952440 ACRA Four Mi-24s flew about 9.000 hours in 5 years over Sierra Leone as a part of Russian peacekeeping contingent under UN mandate. This story is about the "Crocodiles" and the men. Translation and english subtitles by BitnikGr http://www.youtube.com/user/BitnikGr http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=01c_1365952440 ACRA SMOTR: Mi-24 in <span class="highlight">Sierra</span> Leone! (English subtitles) Russia,Mi-24,helicopter,UN, Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:03:27 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b0a_1363611007 Armadildo Sierra who left the United States for the first time in her life on Jan.7 to take pictures in Istanbul, which is visited by millions of tourists every year, went missing in the city on Jan. 21 and her dead body was found on Feb. 2. The suspect was captured crossing into Turkey from Syria, Interior Minister Muammer G"uler said, adding that Turkish police knew that the suspect was "probably" in Syria. Suspect killed said "I went to Syria and joint FSA groups but I was hit in my left leg when I was clashing with SAA. After treatment I wanted to come to Turkey but I was caught while I was trying to pass the border." http://www.dha.com.tr/sierras-suspected-killer-detained_442576.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b0a_1363611007 Armadildo <span class="highlight">Sierra</span>'s killer joint FSA and clashed with SAA FSA, SAA, Turkey Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:25:30 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f40_1363629232 rtsrcool The Birmingham Superprix, dubbed the "Monaco of the Midlands", was a street circuit in the city centre of Birmingham, England. It was only used for a short time from 1986 until 1990 but held some amazing races ranging from Touring car racing to open wheel racing with the Formula 3000, at the time the stepping stone to Formula one. This is the summary of the 11. Round of the 1989 British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) held at the circuit featuring saloon cars like the Ford Sierra RS500, BMW M3, Vauxhall Astra GT/E, Peugeot 309 GTI, Toyota Corolla and more, piloted by world class racing drivers like Andy Rouse, Tim Harvey, John Llewellyn and John Cleland, the latter becoming overall champion at the end of the 1989 BTCC season. Sry about the quality! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Superprix http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f40_1363629232 rtsrcool 1989 British Touring Car Championship - Birmingham Superprix Birmingham, Superprix, British, Touring, Car, Championship, BTCC, 1989, racing, Ford, Sierra, Vauxhall, Astra, Toyota, Corolla, BMW, M3 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:30:06 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ef8_1366719870 2Crazy4U On April 20th in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Bishop, California, a group of high school students launched a "space weather balloon" into the stratosphere. Their goal is to monitor the effects of solar flares on Earth's atmosphere. The silver capsule, built by Mihai Ciustea of Sammamish WA and launched by the Earth to Sky team of Bishop CA, is bristling with sensors to measure, e.g., ozone, pressure, humidity, acceleration and other variables of interest. The capsule travels to 125,000 feet--well inside Earth's ozone layer--and lingers there for approximately two hours before parachuting back to Earth with the data. The April 20th launch was a test flight to measure baseline levels when solar activity is relatively low. The capsule also serves another purpose: It is a bacteria collector. A door at the bottom of the capsule can open, guiding air into a filter designed to capture microbes during the flight. Mihai Ciustea hopes to find ice-nucleating bacteria and other lifeforms living high above Earth's surface. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ef8_1366719870 2Crazy4U SPACE WEATHER BALLOON -- Spaceweather report! SPACE WEATHER BALLOON -- Spaceweather report! Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:59:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dc8_1366077139 USMC5816 The term mercenary is applied to a variety of historical situations which do not appear to have elements in common. Casca, the eternal mercenary, pulled the duty of nailing Christ to the Cross and was doomed to spend eternity as a soldier, a career that can lead to billets like sitting on five-gallon water cans in the cold desert wind on Christmas Eve in Saudi Arabia. Estimates of the number of private international security personnel range from 15,000 to 20,000. That is as much as 15 percent of the total US presence of about 130,000 soldiers. These private contractors -- who most often work for corporations, diplomats, or journalists -- have no accountability to the US military. These private security contractors can earn up to $1,000 a day. NATO forces have used private soldiers for security in the Balkans. But the proportion of private security personnel to regular military soldiers was no greater than 10 percent. Part of the US Occupation force in Iraq, the in-country commander, LTG Sanchez decreed that federal civilians will not carry weapons. But being well acquainted with some fellow federal civilians, if they were armed over here it would scare the "you know what". Consequently, every time civilians leave their "safe area", they must have what are called "shooters" with along. They are sometimes the mercenary security teams who are hired and paid by the contractors. Other times they are young American men and women in the US Army. Since the end of the Cold War there has been a disproportionate growth in the tail to tooth ratio on the battlefield; that is, a marked escalation in the number of support functions relative to actual combat power. As weapons and equipment become more complex and challenging to maintain and operate, there is a greater willingness to rely on civilian contractors who can provide services ranging from monitoring advanced weapon systems to rendering technical assistance and logistical support. No longer restricted solely to acquisition and logistical functions, contractors often accompany the military into war zones and even into battle. Is the battlefield contractor, in a sense, a corporate soldier and is the U.S. military becoming increasingly commercialized, privatized, and outsourced? The presence of civilians accompanying the force on the battlefield has legal and ethical ramifications and raises troubling questions relating to issues of chain of command, authority, accountability, force protection, and, ultimately, mission effectiveness. That presence, too, provokes discussion about the growth of the privatized military industry and the reliance on civilians in the realm of military training, international security missions, and peacekeeping operations. The post Cold War world has given rise both to new problems and new opportunities. In many areas we need to test the received wisdom against an evolving post Cold War reality. The global confrontation of the Cold War and its massive military establishments have been winding down; instead we find ourselves in a world of small wars and weak states. Many of these states need outside help to maintain security at home. There may also be an increasing need for intervention by the international community. At the same time, in developed countries, the private sector is becoming increasingly involved in military and security activity. States and international organisations are turning to the private sector as a cost effective way of procuring services which would once have been the exclusive preserve of the military. It is British Government policy for example to outsource certain tasks that in earlier days would have been undertaken by the armed services. The demand for private military services is likely to increase. The cases that attract most attention are those where a government employs a private military company to help it in a conflict - as the governments of Sierra Leone and Angola have done. Such cases are in practice rare and are likely to remain so; but we may well see an increase in private contracts for training or logistics. Some of this demand may come from states which cannot afford to keep large military establishments themselves. But demand may also come from developed countries. It is notable for example that the United States has employed private military companies to recruit and manage monitors in the Balkans. A further source of demand for private military services could be international organisations. The private sector is already active and effective in areas that would once have been seen as the preserve of the military - demining for example. And both the UN and international NGOs employ private companies to provide them with security and logistics support. A strong and reputable private military sector might have a role in enabling the UN to respond more rapidly and more effectively in crises. The cost of employing private military companies for certain functions in UN operations could be much lower than that of national armed forces. Clearly there are many pitfalls in this which need to be considered carefully. There are, for example, important concerns about human rights, sovereignty and accountability which we examine in this paper. Today's world is a far cry from the 1960s when private military activity usually meant mercenaries of the rather unsavoury kind involved in post-colonial or neo-colonial conflicts. Such people still exist; and some of them may be present at the lower end of the spectrum of private military companies. One of the reasons for considering the option of a licensing regime is that it may be desirable to distinguish between reputable and disreputable private sector operators, to encourage and support the former while, as far as possible, eliminating the latter. MPRI was purchased by L3, DynCorp was purchased by CSC, and Vinnell was purchased by Northrup Grumman. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dc8_1366077139 USMC5816 Mercenary / Private Military Companies (PMCs) PMC, Mercenary, Contractor Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:25:27 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9fa_1365607257 Value343 British people are more miserable than Costa Ricans and Israelis, UN finds Britain has been ranked behind the likes of Costa Rica, Israel and the United Arab Emirates in a global league table of happiness. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/9184916/British-people-are-more-miserable-than-Costa-Ricans-and-Israelis-UN-finds.html Despite being one of the richest nations in the world, a United Nations report found the UK is only the 18th happiest place to live. Sub-Saharan nations in Africa, including Sierra Leone and Togo, came at the bottom of the table. Despite a general link between a country's wealth and its mood, economist and author of the World Happiness Report, Jeffrey Sachs, said the two factors were not inherently linked. Mr Sachs, of New York's Columbia University, found happiness could be achieved independently of a country's economic performance. He argued: "The US has had a three-time increase of gross national product per capita since 1960, but the happiness needle hasn't budged." Related Articles The report incorporated several British studies which have found that marriage and self-employment were key factors leading to an increase in levels of happiness in the UK. Mr Sachs added that economic development led to problems such as eating disorders, obesity, diabetes, gambling problems and tobacco-related illnesses. He also warned there were wider social issues associated with economic growth, including "the loss of community, the decline of social trust, and the rising anxiety levels associated with the vagaries of the modern globalised economy". One reason why Britain is so far down the scale is understood to be due to the relatively high level of family breakdown. The table was created by the UN, which compiled worldwide survey responses from 2005 until mid-2011 to determine the happiness level of 156 different countries. The idea of a national happiness score in order to determine policy has been used in Britain. Last year a controversial lb2million survey ordered by David Cameron concluded that three quarters of the population rated themselves as "seven out of ten" on a wellbeing scale. Critics of the survey argued that it was costly and unnecessary. The Office for National Statistics, which carried out the research, said the report was the first step towards helping future governments base their policies on what makes voters happy. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9fa_1365607257 Value343 British Subjects are More Miserable Than Most 3rd Worlders, UN Study Finds... uk, britian, british, people, most, miserable, bitter, despair, depressed, peasants, slaves, spineless, groveling, coward, full, of, hates Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:42:12 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=84b_1365593449 Moron Watch Human rights charity encouraged by global trend but says setbacks in Asia Pacific and Middle East are disappointing an anti-Hosni Mubarak protester in Cairo calls for the execution of Egypt's ousted president. Photograph: Luca Sola/Corbis Only one in 10 countries in the world carried out capital punishment last year, as the global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty continued, with some progress in Africa , "disappointing" setbacks in Asia Pacific and great concerns about the Middle East, according to a report. China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the US carried out the most executions in 2012, according to Amnesty International 's annual report on death sentences and capital punishment, published on Wednesday. Yemen was not far behind the five. Globally, at least 682 executions were confirmed to have been carried out in 2012, two more than in 2011, the 60-page report showed. However, this number does not include executions in China, which maintains a great deal of secrecy about its use of the capital punishment, nor in Syria, where documenting such figures was made impossible by the civil war. Since 2009, Amnesty has declined to release estimates about the number of executions in China, which is believed to be in the several thousands, more than the rest of the world combined. In 2012, only 21 countries were known to have carried out executions, the same as the year before. More than two-thirds of the world's countries -140 - are classified as nations that have either abandoned the death penalty or are no longer implementing it. Anti-death penalty campaigners in Los Angeles. Photograph: AFP/Getty Setting China aside, Iran had the worst record last year, executing at least 314 people. Most of those put to death were convicted on drug-trafficking offences, but a number of crimes not considered "most serious" under international law, such as alcohol consumption, adultery - and even homosexuality, can send a convict to the gallows. Iran is also notorious for its public hangings. "Iran continued to impose death sentences on juvenile offenders, in violation of international law," Amnesty said. The UN special rapporteur tasked with investigating the country's human rights record also issued warnings in his latest report, published last month, about Iran's high rate of execution, complaining about "the absence of fair trial standards" in the country. In 2012, Amnesty said there was "credible evidence" that Iran also put convicts to death in secret, which would bring the minimum figure acknowledged by the officials up from 314 to 544. Iraq executed at least 129 people,61 more than the minimum known figure for 2011 - an alarming escalation since 2010, when Iraqi authorities acknowledged only one execution. In 2012, it executed 34 people in a single day. Saudi Arabia executed at least 79, the US 43, Yemen 28, Sudan 19, Afghanistan 14 and Somalia 12. In Egypt, Amnesty said it could not confirm whether executions took place because information was difficult to obtain. There was some progress, too. Latvia was the 97th country last year to remove capital punishment from its legislation. Europe and the Americas would have been execution-free if Belarus and the US had abolished the death penalty. The number of countries that handed down death sentences in 2012 was down from 63 to 58 in 2011. Saddam Hussein protests as the death penalty is handed down. Photograph: AP In Africa, Benin moved to abolish the death penalty and Ghana said it had plans to do the same, while Sierra Leone had no prisoners on death row. In the US, the number of executions in 2012 was identical to 2011, though only nine states carried executions compared with 13 in 2011. Despite this, a number of countries in Asia Pacific that had not carried executions for a number of years did so in 2012, such as India, which executed one person, Japan seven, Pakistan one and Gambia nine. "The regression we saw in some countries this year was disappointing, but it does not reverse the worldwide trend against using the death penalty. In many parts of the world, executions are becoming a thing of the past," said Salil Shetty, Amnesty's secretary general. "Only one in 10 countries in the world carries out executions. Their leaders should ask themselves why they are still applying a cruel and inhumane punishment that the rest of the world is leaving behind," he added. "Governments still executing have run out of arguments to justify themselves. There is no evidence whatsoever to indicate that the death penalty works as a special deterrent against crime. "The real reason for the death penalty's use can often be found elsewhere. In 2012, we were once again very concerned to see countries executing for what appeared to be political purposes, either as a populist measure or as an outright tool of repression." Beheading, hanging, firing squad and lethal injection were among some of the methods used globally. Convicts were executed for a range of crimes such as drug-related offences but also a number of charges that Amnesty said should not be considered crimes at all such as apostasy, blasphemy and adultery. More than 23,000 people were on death row worldwide at the end of 2012, according to the report. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/10/death-penalty-declining-worldwide-amnesty?CMP=twt_gu http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=84b_1365593449 Moron Watch Amnesty International report claims death penalty is declining worldwide Death Penalty, Barbaric, No deterrent, Innocent sometimes convicted