| End death by stoning, Iran urged
Three people are said to have been stoned for adultery, a crime in Iran, since 2002, despite a moratorium. The majority sentenced to death by stoning are women, Amnesty says. Campaigners against the death penalty say execution by stoning is particularly harsh - Iran's penal code stipulates the stones used must be large enough to cause the condemned pain, but not sufficient to kill immediately. .
Brain Region Tied to Amphetamine Addiction
THURSDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A specific brain region may be crucial to drug addiction, according to a new study conducted with amphetamine-addicted rats. "This work in rats lines up nicely with new findings in humans involved with drug-seeking behavior," said one outside expert, Dr. Robert Vorel, a fellow at Columbia University Medical Center's division of drug abuse in New York City. .
Autopsy Offers No Cause Of Skater's Death
Coroner's officials said the cause of death was deferred pending results of toxicology tests to determine whether Bowman had drugs in his body. Those results could take six to eight weeks. A friend found Bowman, 40, dead Thursday in a North Hills motel room. .
Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas are teaching the rest of the nation how ...
On a cool, clear Friday night in early February, about a hundred people are packed into the Casa Blanca Lounge on Van Buren Street in downtown Phoenix. Many of them have come for "communion" with local punk/thrash quartet NunZilla. But the "nuns" here aren't anything like the ones who rapped your knuckles with rulers in Catholic school, and this communion is more like an anarchistic tent revival. .
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