(Wall Street Journal) Matt Bradley - In Islamist-held Mosul this week, Islamic State militants stoned to death a man accused of adultery. They then repeatedly screened a video of the killing on several large digital monitors they erected in the city center. Such displays of public brutality and humiliation have become part of a constant drumbeat of indignity endured by the population of Iraq's second-largest city.
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