Question: (CNN) -- Last Saturday, Sarah Palin stood before the huge crowd at the 2014 National Rifle Association annual meeting and condemned liberals for coddling terrorists. She loaded her speech with religious metaphors, claiming that true leaders would put "the fear of God in our enemies." She said, "They obviously have information on plots to carry out jihad. Oh, but you can't offend them, can't make them feel uncomfortable, not even a smidgen. Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists."

Palin's invocation of forced baptism shocked both conservatives and liberals, inspiring few defenders. Christian commentators, in particular, focused on her link between torture and baptism.

On Wednesday, the National Religious Campaign against Torture released a powerful condemnation of the speech. To Palin, the organization's executive director wrote, "Your statements play into a false narrative conveying that somehow, the conflict between the United States and the terrorist cells is a conflict between Christianity and Islam, or Islam and 'the West.' "

The group's letter to the NRA, signed by 17 faith leaders from many different religions and denominations, reads, "For Christians, baptism is a profoundly holy act. It is in stark contrast to the abhorrent act of waterboarding. Equating baptism to an act of torture like waterboarding is sacrilegious -- and particularly surprising coming from a person who prides herself on her Christian faith."

But it's not actually all that surprising. Palin's public rhetoric relies on crafting existential binaries between "us" and "them," creating a kind of sacred empowered victimhood among her listeners. She draws from the language of militant Christianity to claim the status of both persecutor and persecuted. This is not an accident, and I do not believe she will repudiate her remarks. 1. What shocked both parties during her speech?
2. What event was she speaking at?
3. Which year?
4. Who was she speaking out against?
5. For what?
6. What was her speech filled with?
7. What point was she trying to make?
8. How does she say we would baptize terrorists?
9. What did the Christian commentators focus on in her speech?
10. Did someone release a statement about the speech?
11. Who?
12. When?
13. What did they say her statement was a conflict of?
14. What group was the letter sent to?
15. How many people signed it?
16. What kind of people were they?
17. What word did they use to describe her comparing baptism to torture?
18. Were people actually surprised about what she said?
19. What did they say she relies on?
20. What language does she draw from? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Her forced baptism of terrorists by waterboarding them
2. National Rifle Association meeting
3. 2014
4. Liberals
5. For coddling terrorists.
6. Religious metaphors
7. That true leaders would put fear of God in enemies.
8. By waterboarding
9. link between torture and baptism
10. Yes
11. National Religious Campaign against Torture
12. Wednesdayj
13. False narrative conveying the United States and terrorists is conflict between Christianity and Islam
14. NRA
15. 17
16. Faith leaders
17. Sacrilegious
18. No
19. Crafting existential binaries between "us" and "them,"
20. Militant Christianity

Question: (CNN) -- "I killed that lady," the 10-year-old boy told a Pennsylvania state trooper, after a 90-year-old woman was found dead in the home of the boy's grandfather.

Tristen Kurilla, a fifth grader, made the chilling confession Saturday, police said, after his mother brought him to the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks in Honesdale, about 140 miles north of Philadelphia.

Now, Kurilla is being held at the Wayne County Correctional Facility and charged as an adult with criminal homicide, the Wayne County district attorney's office said. The boy is separated from adult offenders and is being constantly supervised, CNN affiliate WBRE reported.

The boy admitted to grabbing a wooden cane, holding it against 90-year-old Helen Novak's throat for several seconds and punching her in the throat and stomach, according to the police affidavit.

Kurilla told police he was angry at Novak because she had yelled at him when he entered her room. He said he wanted to ask her a question.

Were you trying to kill her? the trooper asked the boy.

"No, I was only trying to hurt her," Kurilla replied, according to the affidavit.

The boy was ordered to be held without bail after his arraignment and is set to appear in court October 22.

Bernie Brown, his lawyer, said he was petitioning the court to get the fifth-grade Damascus Elementary School student out of jail, WBRE reported.

"Tristen really kind of doesn't have an idea of what is going on," Brown told the station.

Brown added, "Jail is still jail, no matter what part of the facility you are in." 1. What crime did Tristen Kurilla confess to?
2. Who did he kill?
3. Was she related to him?
4. How did he do it?
5. Intentionally?
6. How did it happen? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. criminal homicide
2. Helen Novak
3. no
4. a cane and punches
5. no
6. a wooden cane, holding it against her throat for several seconds and punching her in the throat and stomach, according to the police affidavit.

Question: (CNN) -- A South African man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for the killing of white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche, a lawyer in the case said.

Chris Mahlangu was convicted on four counts including murder, for which he got life, lawyer Zola Majavu said.

Terreblanche, the leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB), was killed in April 2010 following an apparent dispute over wages with workers on his farm.

Terreblanche, 69, was bludgeoned with clubs and stabbed with a machete during the attack at his farm near Ventersdorp in South Africa's North West province, police said.

The trial began in October.

Police charged Mahlangu and a 16-year-old in the death. It was not immediately clear what sentence the minor got.

The AWB is best known for trying to block South Africa's effort to end apartheid. The group used terrorist tactics in a bid to stall the country's first all-race vote in 1994, killing more than 20 people in a wave of bombings on the eve of the elections.

Terreblanche was convicted of a 1996 attempted murder of a black man who worked as a security guard on his farm. He served about two-thirds of a five-year sentence.

CNN's Nkepile Mabuse contributed to this report.

1. Who was killed?
2. Who is that?
3. When did it happen?
4. Why did it happen?
5. How old was he when he passed?
6. Who murdered him?
7. Anyone else?
8. How old was his partner in crime?
9. What sentence did the child get?
10. What about Chris? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Eugene Terreblanche
2. the leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB),
3. in April 2010
4. because of a dispute over wages with workers on his farm
5. 69
6. Chris Mahlangu
7. yes
8. 16
9. It wasn't clear
10. life