11.   An Iraqi dissident group alleged that a drunken Iraqi officer beat up and shot prisoners in a southern prison, killing four of them.

12.   Another unidentified prisoner was shot in a nearby village.

13.   Captured Taliban were beaten in the streets and wounded prisoners were shot.

14.   Fund also claimed he saw Curnjic shoot another prisoner, Stipan Lulic, in the legs.

15.   I watched as Goran cocked the pistol and shot the prisoner.

16.   Kunming firing squads usually shoot prisoners in the heart from the back, Lu said.

17.   No sedatives or poisons were used, no handcuffed prisoners were shot and no human rights abuses took place.

18.   Police shot one prisoner to death and injured three, prison wardens said.

19.   The driver said the police privates had protested strenuously against orders to shoot the prisoners but were warned by their commander to carry them out anyway.

20.   The circumstances of the shooting were unclear but Lt. Col. Bill Costello said the prisoner had been shot before he was detained.