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• 'We still need to live': Jaded Mexicans find distractions to horrors of violence

  Source: msnbc.com

  With 50,000 killed in drug-related violence in 6 years, Mexicans struggle to muster outrage again and again

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• Columbia law article says Texas executed the wrong Carlos

  This spring, the editorial board at the Columbia Human Rights Law Review dedicated its final issue of the year to one article about two men named Carlos. Carlos DeLuna, the authors believe, was executed in Texas for a crime committed by Carlos Hernandez, who looked so much like  …

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• Physician: Zimmerman had broken nose, black eye

  The day after George Zimmerman fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a family physician wrote in a report obtained by ABC News that Zimmerman had a broken nose, “a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury.”

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• Florida mother kills 4 children, then herself, deputies say

  Updated at 6:20 p.m. ET: A Florida mother killed her four children and then shot herself Tuesday morning as Brevard County, Fla., deputies closed in on her Port St. John home, authorities said.

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• Iran hangs 'Israel spy' over nuclear scientist killing

  Iran has hanged a man it said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. Twenty-four year old Majid Jamali Fashi was hanged at Tehran's Evin Prison after being s …

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