Raytheon Heat-beam Weapon: Inhuman Or Not?

by Staff for LA News Monitor, view original article

August 29, 2010

Raytheon, one of the major American contractors for defense equipments has launched a new directed-energy weapon in Arizona. While the company says the new “heat-beam” weapon is only a prototype, the new invention has already resulted in heated arguments between the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department wants to install a lower version of the weapon in their jail, by the next month for employing it to tackle the aggression of the convicts.

The ACLU in their letter to the Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy D. Baca,cited the development and use of the rude weapon which emits a small ball like “unbearable heat ray” - contrary to the Eighth Amendment’s protection against “cruel and unusual punishment.”

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