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For those who keep going on and on about the cruelty and barbarity of the US, its justice system, and its society, a nicely contrasting UPI article about a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Sudan for adultery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Via OpinionJournal<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those who keep going on and on about the cruelty and barbarity of the US, its justice system, and its society, a nicely contrasting UPI article about a woman…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21134,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/positively-medieval.html","url_meta":{"origin":1253,"position":0},"title":"Positively Medieval","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Jun-11 5:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"Thank goodness we are long past such barbarity.","rel":"","context":"In "Travel - Italy 2011"","block_context":{"text":"Travel - Italy 2011","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/travel\/travel-italy-2011"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3845,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/21\/conversion.html","url_meta":{"origin":1253,"position":1},"title":"Conversion","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Mar-03 10:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"From a UPI story today, not just some human shields who were disguntled, but some who were \"shocked back to reality.\" A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27975,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/23\/yes-please-lets-keep-animal-cruelty-under-wraps.html","url_meta":{"origin":1253,"position":2},"title":"Yes, please, let's keep animal cruelty under wraps!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-May-12 12:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"After all, priorities are priorities!'\"Agriculture is one of our most important industries,\" Sen. 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