Even the Gujarat violence was related to it: it followed the burning to death of several dozen Hindu activists on a train from Ayodhya.

ECONOMIST: India

Police in Chile have arrested four people accused of burning a newborn baby to death in a "healing ritual".

BBC: Chile newborn 'dies in sect ritual'

The incidents of carnage especially a young black mob burning a loathsome black constable to death are more numbing than revelatory.

NEWYORKER: Sarafina!

According to Iraq's Human Rights Ministry, cases of torture, including electrocution, burning detainees with hot irons and beating detainees to death, have been recorded.

NPR: Iraqi Agency Targets Police Torture

After his wife's death in 1970, he set out to do just that, by burning out his nights and reputation in the company of homosexuals although some biographers argue that all he did was finally let fall the mask and reveal his true self.

ECONOMIST: French muses