Before his execution on July 8, 1987 in Texas, John R. Thompson asked for fresh-squeezed orange juice. He was executed for shooting 70-year-old Mary Kneupper to death at a storage warehouse where she worked. See more at Jonathon Kambouris' "The Last Meals Project."Ysolt Usigan Ysolt...
In the end, she fired her attorney, dropped all appeals, and asked that her execution take place as soon as possible. George Appel Convicted murderer George Appel's final words before being executed in the electric chair in New York in 1928 for the murder of a New York City police officer...
"Von Ribbentrop entered the execution chamber at 1:11 a.m. Nuremberg time. He was stopped immediately inside the door by two Army sergeants who closed in on each side of him and held his arms, while another sergeant who had followed him in removed manacles from his hands and replaced them...
30, 2006, with the execution of Saddam Hussein, which video footage widely viewed on the internet revealed to be more of a lynching. U.S. forces handed the ruthless Iraqi dictator over to his own enraged countrymen to be hanged for crimes he committed over a 25-year reign of terror, ...
_(2) Where a person in the execution of an unlawful action kills another, though his principal intent was not to do any personal injury to the person slain; in which case the malice is said to be implied._ _As to duels where the blood has once cooled, there is no doubt but he who...
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As Masters got closer to cracking the Joke, the police brotherhood knew it had to destroy the Four Corners reporter before he destroyed them. “They took him extremely seriously, to the point where they were on the brink of literally setting him up,” said Matthew Condon, the author of a...
If Nuremberg had not occurred, and the anger of the Allies had been assuaged by execution of alleged war criminals without trial, world society would not have advanced an iota toward peace under law. By a resolution of December 10, 1946 the General Assembly of the United Nations affirmed the...
She said he was “sorry for his offending” and “in his own words, has ruined his life”. She told the court he had been in Hull to visit his fiancée, and had been drinking before heading to meet a friend, at which point he got “caught up” in the disorder. Mrs Scott told th...
James Martin, 18, pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated harassment based on race or religion, possessing an article with the intent to cause property damage, and obstructing or resisting a constable in the execution of their duty (Image: North Yorkshire Police) A teenager who marched outside...