“He was still conscious when they put in the chemicals that burn the internal organs.”
Mark Elliot, spokesman for Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, on the botched execution of murderer Angel Nieves, after which deaths by lethal injection were suspended in Florida (The Guardian, London, 15 December)
“Every Ugandan can plant a tree but not every Ugandan can put up a factory.”
Ugandan presidential press secretary Tamale Mirundi on the resignation of Uganda’s National Forest Authority chief after he opposed giving a licence to a palm oil company that wanted to clear rainforest to create a new plantation (Reuters, 9 December)…
