After the accident Asi, a popular weekly magazine, published a 32-page article including gory photographs of the train crash and as a result was closed indefinitely by the Argentine government.

Recently, a rights group put a paid insert into newspapers about torture in Palestinian prisons, complete with gory photographs - and a Government advertising permit.

- Ellis Island officials have asked curators of an Armenian exhibition to remove "gruesome and gory" photographs.

Truth is, Fred wasn't exactly Indiana Jones, and I couldn't imagine anything other than an Alzheimer's attack happening to Fred, in spite of the gory photographs.

Again and again, he argued to keep gory photographs out of the hands of the jury, saying their "probative value" was outweighed by their prejudicial effect.

Cindy Sherman once said she makes gory photographs to confront what she fears most.

It was more a gesture of contempt than largess, because they also sent gory photographs of the firing squad to the secretary of state.

Newspapers carried gory photographs of one man described as having chemical burns over 95 percent of his body.

"Twelve and a half pounds;" she exclaimed as she dealt gory photographs like playing cards, arranging them by case numbers.

Sitting at her kitchen table last week, she flipped through an album of gory photographs of corpses from a still-unsolved double homicide, taken by the New York Police Department in December.