1.   And, perhaps most peculiarly, her hands were amputated at the request of federal officials and sent to Washington for fingerprint analysis.

2.   Both the young man and the child had had their hands amputated.

3.   But when he was asked whether the looters in the riots should have their hands amputated, he shook his head.

4.   But to preserve evidence that they had killed Guevara, they amputated his hands.

5.   First, soldiers amputated one hand from each of two Hopi captives.

6.   He would be freed, they said, if he would amputate the hand of a thief.

7.   People have been stoned for adultery in recent months, and thieves have had hands amputated.

8.   There were also widespread objections to the Islamic punishment by international human rights organizations and army doctors who were supposed to amputate the hands.

9.   A trained medical doctor, Alam said he would be happy to amputate the hand of a thief.

10.   Both his hands were amputated.