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Top Stories For 1.16.14
Category: The News From Around The World
Op Doc: Allergy To Orginality
Watch this amazing five minute finalist in Sundance’s documentary category, courtesy of the New York Times. It’s liberating and frightening.
Man Gets Paid $500,000 Per Enema
New Mexico’s state treasury was cleaned out today after officials agreed to pay a man $1.6 million to settle his lawsuit claiming police subjected him to three enemas in search of drugs he never swallowed. So who ultimately pays for police brutality? In the end, you doo. For $1.6 million police could have bought a whole new Fleet of cars.
Convict Snorted And Choked For 15 Minutes Before Finally Dying
Ohio resumes executions this week with brand new cocktail that seems to have been almost as painful to watch as it was to endure.
Prolonged execution by new drug cocktail for Ohio killer (via AFP)
A US murderer struggled and gasped for air for at least 10 minutes on Thursday as he was put to death in a prolonged execution using a controversial new drug cocktail, according to witnesses. A journalist for the Columbus Dispatch newspaper present…
The Dirty Truth Behind Congressman Buck McKeon’s Retirement
Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Republican Congressman Buck McKeon representing California’s 25th district announced today that he would not be seeking a 12th term. Here to give us a look back at the 75-year-old’s illustrious past is founder of the Blue America PAC Howie Klein.
Nancy Has No Grace
Nancy Grace continues her record breaking string of classy comments.
Nancy Grace on proposal to bring back firing squads: ‘There’s no pretty way to die’ (via Raw Story )
Nancy Grace agreed that a proposal by a Wyoming lawmaker to bring back firing squads was worthy of consideration. The HLN host said she understood why Republican State Sen. Bruce Burns introduced legislation endorsing firing squads as a backup to the…