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US just fail to practice what it preaches
Aug 24 2007, Naresh Chauhan

While the US is preaching protection of human rights to the world community, Texas - second-largest state in both area and population (behind Alaska) in the nation - has cultivated a deep passion for executing criminals and that too under the nose of the.

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