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    Long-delayed murder case goes to trial  Sep 17, 2008
    "No matter how hard she fought, she was no match for the extreme cruelty visited upon her by her attackers," she said. In his confession, Lundgren said, Baez's description of the crime and the crime scene was so accurate that investigators concluded that they had "found one of Mabel's attackers.". (Boston Globe)

    4th inmate captured in N.M. jailbreak  Aug 30, 2008
    Louis Chavez, 18, of Albuquerque, who was charged with aggravated burglary, tampering with evidence, receiving stolen property and extreme cruelty to animals. More from msnbc. (MSNBC -- Crime)

    Charges Filed In Dona Ana County Hoarding Case  Aug 30, 2008
    She has been charged with 19 fourth-degree felony counts of extreme cruelty to animals and 10 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty. Lester Boyse works at a research assistant in the agronomy department. (KFOXTV.com, TX)

    4 inmates accused of helping in jailbreak  Aug 28, 2008
    The other at-large men and the charges against them are Victor Sotelo, 36, of Portales, aggravated assault; England, 29, of Clovis, tampering with evidence and being a felon in possession of a firearm; and Louis Chavez, 18, Albuquerque, aggravated burglary, tampering with evidence, receiving stolen property and extreme cruelty to animals. More from msnbc. (MSNBC -- Crime)

    N.M. Prison Break May Have Been Inside Job  Aug 27, 2008
    The other at-large men and the charges against them are: Victor Sotelo, 36, of Portales, aggravated assault; Michael England, 29, of Clovis, tampering with evidence and being a felon in possession of a firearm; and Louis Chavez, 18, Albuquerque, aggravated burglary, tampering with evidence, receiving stolen property and extreme cruelty to animals. Inmate Victor Apodaca was chased and captured soon after his escape Sunday. (CBS News -- US)

    Third inmate caught in N.M. jail escape  Aug 26, 2008
    The other men at large and the charges against them are Victor Sotelo, 36, aggravated assault; Michael England, 29, tampering with evidence and being a felon in possession of a firearm; and Louis Chavez, 18, aggravated burglary, tampering with evidence, receiving stolen property and extreme cruelty to animals. An investigation into what led to the escape is ongoing, including reviewing tape from video surveillance cameras in the jail. (USA Today -- News)

    Mills' Office condemns mortuary punishment for drivers  Jul 8, 2008
    It said the Ghana Armed Forces had a reputation that flies high, and a few over zealous men in uniform must not be allowed to destroy the image of such a respected institution with acts that bordered on nothing but extreme cruelty. The Ghanaian Times reported on Monday that some intra-city commercial drivers (trotro) and their mates had reportedly been subjected to dehumanizing methods of punishment by military guards at the 37 Military Hospital for flouting traffic regulations. (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    AP IMPACT: US Wavered Over S. Korean Executions  Jul 7, 2008
    A top-secret Army report from Korea, uncovered by AP research, told of the "extreme cruelty" of the South Korean military policemen. The bodies fell into a ravine, where hours later some "were still alive and moaning," wrote a U.S. military policeman who happened on the scene. (CBS News -- World)

    Also in theaters: 'Funny Games,' 'Sleepwalking,' 'Doomsday'  Mar 15, 2008
    The audience feels like a co-conspirator in this sadomasochistic excursion into extreme cruelty. One can't help but leave the theater angry to have wasted time on this despicable, conscience-free exercise in pointless horror. (USA Today -- Life)

    Sandhills Love  Feb 27, 2008
    Karen wrote on Feb 22, 2008 9:15 PM:" Why should America's Horse Herd end up on dinner plateS in Italy,France,Japan etc.? WHY would anyone want to sell America's horses to be eaten in other countries ?? The only truthful reason is GREED and lots of MONEY !!! Please check out the FACTS !! Why would anyone put an old sick horse on a cattle car to transport across country to have its OLD SICK TOUGH meat sent overseas to be eaten ? Think about it....besides EXTREME CRUELTY ..OLD SICK DRY TOUGH... (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)

    Letters to the Editor (Feb 26)  Feb 26, 2008
    Without exception, every time the world of factory farms, stockyards and slaughterhouses is entered, extreme cruelty to animals is discovered. It is very hard for compassionate people to comprehend what routinely happens to animals. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)

    Dog-fighting - 52 dogs seized  Feb 25, 2008
    Duryea Scott, 48, of El Paso, turned himself in Wednesday morning to face two counts of extreme cruelty to animals, two counts of animal cruelty and a misdemeanor count of conspiracy to commit extreme animal cruelty. Scott was initially scheduled to turn himself in Tuesday evening, only hours after his brother, Daron Scott, also of El Paso, was arrested at Santa Teresa High School, where he has worked for the past eight years as a special education teacher. (Pet-Abuse.com)

    Game's not main focus of Arizona chain gang  Feb 3, 2008
    The chain gang, a mostly Southern phenomenon marked by extreme cruelty and blatant racism, died out completely by 1955. The concept made a brief comeback in a few states in the early '90s, in softer form. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Protest against ban on Jallikattu  Jan 13, 2008
    It's a 400 year long Tamil tradition of valour, in which close to two hundred people have been gored to death in the last ten years and bulls suffer extreme cruelty. But for the rural population, this is being seen as an interference in their tradition and religious belief, which could result in a curse and calamity. (NDTV.com)

    Chefs chicken protest hurts farmers  Jan 10, 2008
    These farmers have only themselves to blame, they went along with such extreme cruelty purely to make money, shame on them. Catrina, London, uk. (Times Online)

    Russian serial killer: "I felt like God"  Oct 28, 2007
    "I didn't torture anybody, that was my style, my signature," Pichushkin said, disputing court charges that he first rendered his mostly elderly victims helpless and then killed with extreme cruelty. "The only criteria I had was that the person was maximally familiar to me. Age played a secondary role.". (Reuters Canada)

    129 sickly cats seized  Oct 19, 2007
    Gina Gentile was indicted Thursday on a second charge of extreme cruelty to animals. Gentile, 41, was indicted on several other charges in May, including intentional child abuse, tampering with evidence and cruelty to animals. (Pet-Abuse.com)

    Brothers Arrested, Face Several Charges  Oct 18, 2007
    EL PASO, Texas -- Authorities have both Scott brothers in custody on a number of charges including two counts of extreme cruelty to animals Wednesday night. Wednesday morning Duryea Scott turned himself in to Dona Ana County Sheriff deputies with his attorney by his side. (KFOXTV.com, TX)

    Brother Arrested For Extreme Animal Cruelty  Oct 17, 2007
    They each face numerous charges including two counts of extreme cruelty to animals. Copyright 2007 by. (KFOXTV.com, TX)

    Many peace activists are veterans, too  Sep 21, 2007
    Tim Schulz wrote on Sep 19, 2007 10:00 AM:" I didn't mention that O'Brien bills his novel as pretty much autobiographical, some scenes real and some extrapolated. But it would be hard to imagine random acts of extreme cruelty NOT occurring at least occasionally at the hands of some of our troops. ". DeKalb Guy wrote on Sep 19, 2007 9:11 AM:" Like you, Laurie, I'm not sure Cecile's comments represent the Interfaith's membership; however, it's awfully telling that not one Interfaith member has... (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)

    EXECUTIVE EDITOR ROBIN KEATS TAKES AIM AT NEWS THAT MAKES US CRAZY....  Sep 6, 2007
    I had never realized that age had anything to do with extreme cruelty that one needed to grow up in order to stop electrocuting dogs that didn t fare well in staged fights with other dogs. So much of the same type of thing ( same in terms of utterly anti-social behavior) happens and makes the news, time after time, that one might easily get. (Brentwood Media Group, CA)

    Vick should get more than a year in prison  Aug 24, 2007
    The extreme cruelty in the case. An April 25 search Surry County home owned by Vick found 66 dogs, some of them injured, and items typically used in dogfighting. (Petersburg Progress Index, VA)

    Steven Floyd Carlson gets 10 years for attack  Aug 9, 2007
    "I argue to the court that this is an act of extreme cruelty.". He said Carlson has bi-polar disorder, chemical dependency issues and other problems, but argued that those problems do not always lead other people to commit such acts. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)

    Nazi war criminal in Vancouver cell  Aug 5, 2007
    The judges said it is not unjust for Seifert to face the consequences of nine murders accompanied by extreme cruelty. Seifert, who has lived in Canada since 1951, had been sentenced by a German military court for rape and, as a soldier serving in the German army, was assigned to guard isolation cells at the camp. (Toronto Star)

    Cat set on fire  Jul 19, 2007
    Jose Bustillos, 35, of 805 Catalina Lane, and Orlando Luis Corralez, 21, of 1634 County Road 1046, Muleshoe, Texas, were arrested and charged with extreme cruelty to animals and conspiracy to commit extreme cruelty to animals ... He said extreme cruelty to animals is a fourth degree felony. (Pet-Abuse.com)

    Blog: What do you think?  Jul 18, 2007
    The Michael Vick episode of extreme cruelty to companion animals will be, as before, excused by the fanatical, money above all, sports enterprise known as Virginia Tech football and the VT administrators who nourish and condone such excuses for the benefit of the Hokie community. Remember April 16th, when 32 innocent people, students and faculty, were gunned down as they were engaging in the real purpose of a university - education. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

    Heartless man handed life sentence  Jul 8, 2007
    Daniel Sylvester was handed a life sentence Friday with no chance of parole for 16 years for his extreme cruelty and callousness in Alicia Ross brutal, vicious and sustained beating death. A jury convicted Sylvester of second-degree murder on May 29 for the beating death of his 25-year-old nextdoor neighbour shortly after midnight Aug. 17, 2005. (Edmonton Sun)

    Cop killers?  Jul 2, 2007
    Re Pirates - actually, Pirates of The Carribean 1 was relatively historically accurate (dead folk withstanding) Pirates, while capapble of pretty extreme cruelty, were still much better than you might think. Very democratic, too. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)

    Barouski...: Surviving Genocide pt. 2  Jun 26, 2007
    I would like to let Americans know about the extreme cruelty of Paul Kagame. He killed willingly and tortured people. (Zmag.org)

    Chinese government promises crack down on use of slave workers  Jun 21, 2007
    The fathers accused Henan and Shanxi authorities of ignoring them or even protecting the kilns and human traffickers, saying about 1,000 children were being forced to work at kilns under conditions of extreme cruelty. Xinhua also reported that Shanxi had passed a law banning the use of cheap bricks in an attempt to put the illegal kilns out of business. (International Herald Tribune)

    5 arrested in China slave scandal  Jun 19, 2007
    The fathers accused Henan and Shanxi authorities of ignoring them or even protecting the kilns and human traffickers, saying about 1,000 children were being forced to work at kilns under conditions of extreme cruelty. Xinhua said Wang Dongji, a Communist Party branch secretary at a village in Shanxi, was being investigated after his son was found to be an owner of a kiln were 32 people were starved, beaten and forced to work 14 hours or more a day. (MSNBC -- International)

    China orders labor abuse crackdown  Jun 19, 2007
    The fathers' letter said about 1,000 children were being forced to work at kilns under conditions of extreme cruelty, but that number has been impossible to verify. Authorities have appeared to muzzle further reporting on the scandal after a a flurry of television and newspaper reports last week, including lurid pictures of slave workers with bloody patched of skin burned or rubbed raw. (Houston Chronicle)

    Another 80 slave laborers rescued in China  Jun 16, 2007
    The fathers accused Henan and Shanxi authorities of ignoring them or even protecting the kilns and human traffickers, saying about 1,000 children were being forced to work at kilns under conditions of extreme cruelty. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. (USA Today -- News)

    Pipeline workers find mass grave of Jews  Jun 6, 2007
    Mr Shvartsman added: "The Jews interred at the camp were mainly from Odessa, Bessarabia and [other parts of] Moldova. Both the Romanian and German troops stationed there treated them with extreme cruelty.". He added: "We have talked to one surviving witness, Pavel Rubley, who described how prisoners were rounded up and taken to the ghetto. They included women and children.". (Guardian Unlimited -- World)

    Only in New Jersey  May 9, 2007
    This week, Dina Matos McGreevey filed court papers accusing former Gov. Jim "I am a gay American" McGreevey of extreme cruelty, fraud and libel, for concealing his homosexuality in order to marry her ... This week, Dina Matos McGreevey filed court papers accusing former Gov. Jim "I am a gay American" McGreevey of extreme cruelty, fraud and libel, for concealing his homosexuality in order to marry her. (Townhall.com)

    Matos McGreevey Claims Extreme Cruelty In Filing  May 8, 2007
    (CBS/AP) TRENTON, N.J. Dina Matos McGreevey -- the estranged wife of the nation's first openly gay governor -- claimed extreme cruelty throughout their marriage in a Monday court filing, which demanded divorce as well as monetary damages for fraud, emotional distress and libel ... "Plaintiff has been guilty of extreme cruelty toward defendant, commencing from the date of their marriage and continuing from that day until the present," Matos McGreevey's attorneys said in Monday's filing in state... (CBS New York, NY)

    Dina claims extreme cruelty  May 8, 2007
    "Plaintiff has been guilty of extreme cruelty toward defendant, commencing from the date of their marriage and continuing from that day until the present, Matos McGreevey s attorneys said in Monday s filing in state Superior Court in Union County.Matos McGreevey s lawyers said learning that her husband was gay and cheating on her "had an immeasurable lasting impact. He resigned as governor of New Jersey in 2004 after acknowledging that he was "a gay American and saying he had an affair with a... (The Trentonian, NJ)

    The Last Dawn  May 4, 2007
    Vern Thiessen writes profound History Channel Docudrama. Take most teen posses in 2007 - wired for sound and vision be it iPod, Facebook, or My Space. (Suite101.com)

    Dentist Cleared of Animal-Cruelty Charges  May 4, 2007
    By Lee Ross Mountain View Telegraph A Tijeras man who faced charges of extreme cruelty to animals recently reached a settlement with Bernalillo County. Tijeras dentist Robert Belfon has been cleared of all charges. (Cedar Crest East Mountain Telegraph, NM)

    Bill that trapped teen is misused  Apr 23, 2007
    Roy Barnes and former Speaker Tom Murphy expressed concerns that young people, much like in the current case of Genarlow Wison, might be sentenced to the harsh 10-year prison term originally intended for blatant and extreme cruelty and abuse of children. Ultimately, most members came to believe that the language was vague enough to give leeway and that no prosecutor would ever so abuse the statute and its true legislative intent. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)

    Dog slammed into wall during domestic dispute  Mar 12, 2007
    Rankin is being held on a $75,000 bond on charges of aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and extreme cruelty to animals. Add this case to. (Pet-Abuse.com)

    Animals, haute cuisine and morality (2/26)  Feb 27, 2007
    But I'd still like to do what I can to stop pointless and extreme cruelty to animals. Organizations like PETA in effect has lost the support of people like me because they act like a bunch of wacko hippies, and effectively lose their ability to get any real good done. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)

    JOHN LINDER: Global-warming theory and the eugenics precedent  Feb 19, 2007
    They believed that "the best" human beings were not having as many children as inferior ones -- the foreigners, immigrants, Jews, Blacks, degenerates, the unfit and the "feeble minded." Sanger said "fostering the good-for-nothing at the expense of the good is an extreme cruelty." She spoke of the burden of caring for "this dead weight of human waste." H.G. Wells spoke against "ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens." Roosevelt said, "Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce... (Washington Times)

    Kidd's wife accuses Nets star of infidelity, abuse  Feb 17, 2007
    " The couple separated in November. Jason Kidd last assaulted his wife Dec. 28 at an apartment he took in Saddle River, pressing his forearm against her neck, causing her to lose her breath, according to Joumana Kidd's filing. Joumana Kidd said that her husband has since moved and will not tell her where. One of her lawyers, Raoul Lionel Felder, said she wanted to have the papers sealed to protect the family's privacy but because she was not likely to be successful under the law, decided to... (ESPN -- Basketball)

    Kidd accused of serial infidelity, physical abuse  Feb 17, 2007
    Jason Kidd had cited extreme cruelty in his initial filing. The Kidds, who were married in 1997, were involved in a domestic violence matter six years ago when he was playing for the. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)

    When PETA Attacks...Mrs. Trump!  Feb 17, 2007
    edited by Noelle Hancock When PETA Attacks. Thursday February 8, 2007. (Yahoo News -- Animal Rights & Welfare)

    The psychopath has no allegiance to the company at all, just to self.  Feb 3, 2007
    His divorce was granted on grounds of "extreme cruelty." That's the characteristic that endeared him to Wall Street, which applauded when he fired 11,000 workers at Scott Paper, then another 6,000 (half the labor force) at Sunbeam. Chainsaw hurled a chair at his human-resources chief, the very man who approved the handgun and bulletproof vest on his expense report. (FastCompany)

    Kidd looks to hasten divorce with new filings  Jan 27, 2007
    The new law comes a bit late for Kidd, who already aired his marital dirty laundry earlier this month in his initial divorce filings, when he cited extreme cruelty. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Sports)

    Nets reportedly put Kidd on trading block  Jan 17, 2007
    The 33-year-old NBA star has already filed for divorce from his wife of 10 years, citing extreme cruelty and saying that he was an abused spouse. Under the protection order filed by Jason Kidd, he must pick up his children curbside for visits so that Joumana does not violate the order, attorneys said. (MSNBC -- Sports)

    Kidd's wife fights back withrestraining order  Jan 14, 2007
    TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The wife of star has filed her own domestic-violence restraining order, less than a week after the point guard accused her of beating him and extreme cruelty ... On Tuesday, the 33-year-old NBA star filed for divorce from his wife of 10 years, citing "extreme cruelty" and saying that he was an abused spouse. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NBA)

    * Carter helps New Jersey Nets best Toronto Raptors  Jan 11, 2007
    Jason Kidd added 10 points, 14 assists and eight rebounds just hours after filing for divorce from his wife of 10 years, accusing her of "extreme cruelty" throughout their marriage. Mikki Moore added 12 points and eight rebounds for the Nets, who shot 50 percent from the field and limited the Raptors to 38 second-half points. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    New Jersey Nets Star Jason Kidd Claims Wife Abused Him  Jan 11, 2007
    According to the court papers, Joumana's "extreme cruelty" toward Kidd has included trying to make him look bad in front of the children by talking trash about his career - not to mention tossing paint on his beloved golf clubs. (Story continues below). (Fox News -- Life)

    Carter, Nets trump Toronto  Jan 10, 2007
    Jason Kidd added 10 points, 14 assists, and 8 rebounds just hours after filing for divorce from his wife of 10 years, accusing her of "extreme cruelty" throughout their marriage. Trailing, 48-47, at the half, New Jersey took control with a 17-6 spurt to open the third. (Boston Globe)

    Louisville turns to Tulsa's Kragthorpe  Jan 10, 2007
    BasketballCiting cruelty, Kidd files for divorce New Jersey Nets star Jason Kidd filed for divorce from his wife of 10 years, accusing her of "extreme cruelty" throughout their marriage. In the dissolution papers, filed in state Superior Court in Bergen County, Kidd accuses Joumana Kidd of physically and mentally abusing him, threatening to make false domestic violence complaints against him to police, and of interfering with his relationship with his children. (Boston Globe)

    NBA Roundup: Carter, Nets top Raptors  Jan 10, 2007
    Jason Kidd added 10 points, 14 assists and eight rebounds just hours after filing for divorce from his wife of 10 years, accusing her of "extreme cruelty" throughout their marriage. TORONTO (86). (The Standard-Times, MA)

    Kidd cites 'extreme cruelty' in divorce lawsuit  Jan 10, 2007
    SADDLE RIVER, N.J. (AP) -- star filed for divorce from his wife of 10 years Tuesday, accusing her of "extreme cruelty" throughout their marriage ... "Jason Kidd filed for divorce from his wife today on the grounds of extreme cruelty over a long period of time," Kidd's attorney, Madeline Marzano-Lesnevich, said in a statement Tuesday. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NBA)

    Kidd to divorce wife for extreme cruelty  Jan 10, 2007
    Kidd to divorce wife for extreme cruelty - NBA - MSNBC.com ... Kidd to divorce wife for extreme cruelty ... TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Nets star Jason Kidd filed for divorce from his wife of 10 years Tuesday, accusing her of extreme cruelty throughout their marriage. (MSNBC -- Sports)

    Carter, Nets shrug off Raptors  Jan 10, 2007
    The Nets' Jason Kidd added 10 points, 14 assists and eight rebounds just hours after filing for divorce from his wife of 10 years, accusing her of "extreme cruelty" throughout their marriage. "There is really no distraction," Kidd said. (Sunspot.net -- Sports)

    Kidd files for divorce from 'abusive' wife  Jan 10, 2007
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    Kidd blames wife for "extreme cruelty' during marriage  Jan 10, 2007
    In papers filed in state Superior Court in Bergen County, New Jersey, today and obtained by The Associated Press, Kidd accuses wife Joumana (yoo-MAH'-nah) of -- quote -- "extreme cruelty" throughout their marriage. The former Suns player says his wife physically and mentally abused him and threatened to make false domestic violence complaints against him to police. (KOLD.com, AZ)

    Creator of a monstrous hit  Nov 20, 2006
    The profound mystery of the first two Lecter novels, Red Dragon (1981), in which the doctor appears only as a minor character, and in prison at that, and The Silence of the Lambs (1988), was that no psychological explanation was offered for his extreme cruelty. He was beholden to no one and seemed to have come from nowhere. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)

    Puppy thrower charged in Italy  Oct 27, 2006
    "Although the law exists against the mistreatment of animals, it has never been applied with sufficient severity, even when the victims have been subjected to acts of extreme cruelty." The 2004 law, aimed at bringing Italy into line with European Union standards, increased penalties for animal mistreatment. It outlaws keeping animals in miserable conditions and making them behave "in a way incompatible with their instincts.". (Washington Times)

    New Clues Surface In Ramsey, N.J. Murder Case  Aug 25, 2006
    "Next door neighbor Kevin McCulloch said Duncsak had been living alone, separated from his wife Stacey for about a year."They only moved in here about a year an a half ago, but he was a real nice guy, and the kids were real young, about 3 and 5, 3 or 6, so it's tough," said McCulloch.Court papers revealed the couple had been married for seven years before their divorce became final in 2005.Duncsak moved first to end the marriage, citing extreme cruelty. He also accused his wife of keeping a... (CBS New York, NY)

    Underwood: Forced Labor  Aug 23, 2006
    As Otomo explained, "The Foreign Ministry Report was meant to be given to foreigners like the Chinese if questions arose, so the purpose was to show that there was no extreme cruelty at all. Severe cases of abuse were depicted as contrary to government policy and the result of misguided personal actions by worksite staff. Basically, it was a self-defense document. Nevetheless, the report contains factual information about the forced labor system and how it was carried out. It accurately tells... (Zmag.org)

    Cockfight raid nets fifty injured birds  Aug 21, 2006
    " Dr Wirth said the fights involved extreme cruelty. "At least one bird will die, if not both from the wounds inflicted to each other. It's invariable that in most cockfights both birds die or certainly one bird will die. (Sydney Morning Herald)

    50 birds seized in Vic cockfight raid  Aug 20, 2006
    Dr Wirth said the fights involved extreme cruelty. "At least one bird will die, if not both from the wounds inflicted to each other. It's invariable that in most cockfights both birds die or certainly one bird will die ... and the one that survives is badly injured.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)

    STANLEY CROUCH  Jul 21, 2006
    After visiting a Jewish Holocaust museum in Israel, he was touched and understood how important it is to maintain consciousness of the extent to which ethnic and religious hatred can fuel actions of extreme cruelty and murder. It is important to understand that these burdens are not the sole possession of any group as much as they are part of our collective human condition. (The Drudge Report)

    Expressive memoir set in Ireland  Jul 9, 2006
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    IN DEPTH: Convict maintains that after decades true story of wife's death yet to be told  Jul 2, 2006
    She divorced him five months later, citing "extreme cruelty, mental in nature.". At the time Azbill claimed his income was $41 a week in unemployment. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Nevada News)

    Underwood:Japan's Forced Labor  Jun 21, 2006
    As Otomo explained, "The Foreign Ministry Report was meant to be given to foreigners like the Chinese if questions arose, so the purpose was to show that there was no extreme cruelty at all. Severe cases of abuse were depicted as contrary to government policy and the result of misguided personal actions by worksite staff. Basically, it was a self-defense document. Yet there is factual information about the forced labor system and how it was carried out. It accurately tells what kind of Chinese... (Zmag.org)

    District attorney wants 50 years for Appleby  Jun 1, 2006
    In one of the robberies, Appleby "inflicted extreme cruelty" on one of the victims, according to the motion. Appleby's sex crimes consisted of numerous indecent exposures and spanned most of the 1990s, Morrison said. (Johnson County Sun, KS)

    Hungary jails Azerbaijani killer  Apr 14, 2006
    But the judge ruled that the murder was pre-meditated and had been carried out with extreme cruelty. Had his fellow officers not restrained him, the judge added, Safarov would have killed a second Armenian officer as well. (BBC News -- Europe)

    Death sentence for fishermen who raped and murdered British student  Jan 19, 2006
    He told Wichai Somkhaoyai, 24, and Bualoi Posit, 23, that they would be put to death for their act of extreme cruelty that had damaged the reputation of Thailand as a "peaceful and calm" country for tourists. "It was easy to escape - the victim would not have recognised them. But instead they callously beat her and then dragged her into the sea to drown her," he said. (Scotsman.com)


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