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Arizona wants to use Zyklon B (Hydrogen Cyanide Gas) to execute inmates on death row
Jerusalem Post - Tue Jun 1, 2021
FLORENCE, Arizona - Hydrogen cyanide gas, named by the Third Reich as Zyklon B, was used by the Nazis to kill over a million people in the Holocaust and the state of Arizona now wants to use it in executions. More»

How to Dodge and Disarm the Sonic Weapon Used by Police
Popular Mechanics - Sun Jun 21, 2020
Audio producer Cory Choy was reporting on the 2014 Black Lives Matter protests in New York City when he first experienced sound as a weapon. More»

Chilling role of 'the Preacher' confirmed at CIA waterboarding hearing in Guantánamo
The Guardian - Sun Jan 26, 2020
There were three men authorised by the CIA to carry out waterboarding on detainees in America's "war on terror". More»

Woman forced to give birth alone in Denver jail cell with no medical treatment
KDVR-TV - Thu Aug 29, 2019
DENVER, Colorado - A woman is suing the city and county of Denver, Denver Health Medical Center and six individuals after she said she was forced to deliver a baby alone on a bench in a jail cell at the Denver County Jail. More»

This is the week it became accurate to compare Trump to Hitler
Salon - Wed Jul 3, 2019
The presidency of Donald Trump has been one horror after another - the endless lying, the coddling and worship of dictators, the rank incompetence and corruption of the people he has chosen to run government departments, the saber-rattling and about-facing with various enemies, the repeated attacks on voting rights and free speech and a free press, the countenancing of rank racism and white supremacy in Charlottesville and elsewhere, the personal corruption and grifting at his resorts and golf clubs, the reverence for a celebration of ignorance, the disdain for science and expertise, the constant tweeting and spewing of hate and stupidity and racism and misogyny and xenophobia - the list goes on. More»

Charges dropped for deputies accused of forcing inmates into 'fight club'
The Guardian - Fri Feb 1, 2019
The San Francisco district attorney's office on Friday dropped all charges against three San Francisco sheriff's deputies accused of forcing inmates to fight for their entertainment. More»

Trump Says Separation Of Families At Border Is A Negotiating Tool
CNN - Fri Jun 15, 2018
President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he is using his administration's separation of families at the US border as a negotiating tool to get Democrats to cave on his immigration demands, which include funding for a border wall, curbing legal immigration into the US, and tightening the rules for border enforcement. More»

'I hated myself after abuse at Abu Ghraib'
BBC - Tue May 15, 2018
Gina Haspel has paved the way for her confirmation as new CIA director, after repudiating torture tactics used in the past. More»

CIA rendition flights from rustic North Carolina called to account by citizens
The Guardian - Wed Jan 17, 2018
A year after he was released from captivity in Guantánamo, Binyam Mohamed received a letter from Christina Cowger, an agricultural researcher from North Carolina. More»

President Donald Trump says he believes torture works
BBC - Wed Jan 25, 2017
US President Donald Trump has said he believes torture works, saying "we have to fight fire with fire". More»

Victims Of CIA Torture Notch Historic Victory In Legal Battle
Think Progress - Sat Apr 23, 2016
A lawsuit against two psychologists behind the CIA's torture program moved forward on Friday, when a judge decided he could not throw out the case. More»

Trump says 'torture works,' backs waterboarding and 'much worse'
Washington Post - Mon Feb 1, 2016
BLUFFTON, South Carolina - Donald Trump went even further in his support of waterboarding and other barred interrogation techniques Wednesday, saying that as president he would use torture in the fight against terrorism. More»

US psychology group colluded with govt torture program
AFP - Fri Jul 10, 2015
Washington - The US's top psychology association colluded with the Pentagon and the CIA to devise ethical guidelines to support post-9/11 interrogation techniques that have since been labeled as torture, a report said Friday. More»

CIA Engaged in Human Experimentation in Its Torture Programs
The Guardian - Tue Jun 16, 2015
The Central Intelligence Agency had explicit guidelines for "human experimentation" before, during and after its post-9/11 torture of terrorism detainees, the Guardian has learned, which raise new questions about the limits on internal oversight over the agency's in-house and contracted medical research. More»

CIA sex abuse and torture went beyond Senate report disclosures, detainee says
The Guardian - Tue Jun 16, 2015
The US Central Intelligence Agency used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantánamo Bay detainee turned government cooperating witness. More»

American Psychological Association Collaborated with C.I.A. Torture Program, Report Says
New York Times - Wed Apr 29, 2015
WASHINGTON - The American Psychological Association secretly collaborated with the administration of President George W. More»

Oklahoma adopts nitrogen as possible execution method
Associated Press - Fri Apr 17, 2015
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma may use nitrogen gas as an alternative execution method if the US Supreme Court finds the state's lethal injection process unconstitutional or drugs are unavailable, under a bill Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed on Friday. More»

Cheney Calls Torture Report A Crock, Says He'd 'Do It Again In A Minute'
Think Progress - Sat Dec 13, 2014
Before the Senate Intelligence Committee's extensive report on the forms of torture used on Guantanamo Bay detainees was released this week, former Vice President Dick Cheney was already defending the CIA's actions. More»

Kings of torture who made $81m inflicting pain
Daily Mail - Fri Dec 12, 2014
Their names appear again and again in the US Senate's shocking report on CIA torture - two clinical psychologists who dreamt up ever more brutal ways to inflict humiliation and pain on uncharged prisoners kept in secret prisons. More»

Torture report reveals how Poland objected to CIA's secret jail on its soil - but became 'flexible' after being bought off with large cash payment
Daily Mail - Fri Dec 12, 2014
The US Senate Committee's torture report has claimed Poland initially objected to the CIA's secret prison on its soil but became 'flexible' after being bought off with a large sum of money. More»

The Psychology Profession Has Disowned the CIA's Two Torture Psychologists
Motherboard - Thu Dec 11, 2014
The largest group representing US psychologists calls the torture performed by the Central Intelligence Agency on terrorist suspects "sickening and morally reprehensible," formally distancing itself from the two members of the profession who consulted on the program. More»

Texas experimenting with secret execution drugs
Reuters - Thu Oct 3, 2013
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Three Texas death row inmates claim the state plans to execute them by experimenting with new drugs, never used for such a purpose, that were obtained under false pretenses, attorneys told Reuters on Wednesday. More»

Terrorist interrogation tapes found
Associated Press - Mon Aug 16, 2010
WASHINGTON - The CIA has videotapes, after all, of interrogations in a secret overseas prison of admitted 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh. More»

Records show US medical staff experimented on terror suspects
AFP - Sun Jun 6, 2010
WASHINGTON - Medical personnel apparently experimented on terror detainees during CIA-led torture after the September 11 attacks, aiming to improve interrogation techniques, a human rights group said Monday. More»

White House, CIA "angry at tape destruction"
Associated Press - Wed Apr 14, 2010
WASHINGTON - White House counsel Harriet Miers was "livid" and CIA counsel John Rizzo was "clearly upset" that the spy agency destroyed interrogation videos showing waterboarding in 2005, newly released CIA documents show. More»

When the Army Uses "Enhanced Interrogation" on an American Soldier
Huffington Post - Wed Apr 14, 2010
I had been covering veterans' issues for several years and thought I'd developed a thick skin. More»

US bands blast use of music in Guantanamo interrogations
AFP - Thu Oct 22, 2009
WASHINGTON - A group of top US acts including REM and Pearl Jam on Thursday expressed outrage that loud music was being blasted at Guantanamo detainees as part of "terror" interrogations. More»

'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe
Associated Press - Sun Aug 23, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W Bush's war on terrorism, revealing CIA interrogators' threats to kill one suspect's children and to force another to watch his mother sexually assaulted. More»

As Bush adviser, Rice delivered OK to waterboard
Associated Press - Wed Apr 22, 2009
WASHINGTON - As national security adviser to former President George W Bush, Condoleezza Rice verbally approved the CIA's request to subject alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in July 2002, the earliest known decision by a Bush administration official to OK use of the simulated drowning technique. More»

Obama releases secret Bush anti-terror memos
Associated Press - Sun Mar 1, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets Monday, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations and other treatment of terror suspects. More»

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