Madam, - Your edition of April 13th reported that a judge in Texas who halted an execution because the inmate was mentally ill had agreed to force the man to take anti-psychotic medication so he can be put to death.
The next day's edition carried an article by James C Kenny, the US ambassador to Ireland, which stated among other things that "US policy does not allow for the torture of prisoners: not in law enforcement, intelligence or military operations".
Was it Humpty Dumpty in Alice Through the Looking Glass who said: "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less"? - Yours, etc,
ARTHUR DUNNE, Blackrock, Co Dublin.