Traditional show trials, just like the ones that Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili used to order!
"What you and I mean by torture could be different," Brownback told defense lawyer Major Tom Fleener.
He said "a red-hot needle in the eye" constitutes torture but was not ready to commit to a prohibition in advance of the trial.
It's just like the old days, except that now we don't even have to subscribe to Pravda to read about the majesty of the law, Soviet style.
(via Left I on the News)