We see capital punishment, which is state-sponsored killing, as morally wrong and against the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishments.

When it comes to state-sponsored killings, the double standard is brazen.

Do we consistently condemn state-sponsored, extrajudicial killings as acts of pure terror, no matter where in the world, or on whose orders, they occur?

In examining his own psychohistory, Dr. Lifton is vague about what led to his interest in genocide and state-sponsored killing.

European leaders insisted that the viciousness of the actions of which Mr. Hussein was found guilty had not changed their view that state-sponsored killing was wrong.

We find capital punishment - state-sponsored killing - morally repellent and against the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishments.

Equally rife are tales of family members and friends murdered in disputes over property, illicit affairs, or in revenge for state-sponsored killings carried out under Mr. Hussein.

It was a grim, jagged night that dismayed the people who protest state-sponsored killing.

Yet there has been no orgy of bloodshed as was feared, given the scale of state-sponsored killings and expulsions that Iraqis say they have suffered in the last 25 years.

More than 500,000 people, mostly minority Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu, died in mid-1994 during 90 days of state-sponsored killing.