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  • South Carolina is bringing back firing squad.

    South Carolina is bringing back firing squad.

    December 16, 2024

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    David

    Three people are currently awaiting the death penalty in South Carolina. After the state passed a new law, those people will be forced to choose how they are executed.  In addition to lethal injection and execution, the new law adds firing squads to the list of acceptable methods. While that…

  • Eighteenth century Was Terrible.

    Eighteenth century Was Terrible.

    December 16, 2024

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    David

    On Monday 12th of March 1716 William Jennings (also given as Jenkins and Atkins) was hanged at Tyburn for housebreaking.  His age was reported as just 12 in a newspaper of the time, but there is no Ordinary’s report to corroborate this.   Sixteen year old Thomas Smith was hanged at…

  • Jewish woman, some holding children in their arms, wait in line before they are ex3cuted by the Ukrainian police.

    Jewish woman, some holding children in their arms, wait in line before they are ex3cuted by the Ukrainian police.

    December 16, 2024

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    David

    This horrifying story begins with the Mizocz Ghetto of World War II, set up in occupied Poland by the German Nazi army to gather the local Jews there. The Jews in the area had settled there since the 18th century. It is estimated that at that time there were about…

  • REAL COMBAT PHOTOGRAPH OF FRENCH SOLDIERS GOING OVER-THE-TOP AT MESNIL-LES-HURLUS DURING THE SECOND BATTLE OF…..

    REAL COMBAT PHOTOGRAPH OF FRENCH SOLDIERS GOING OVER-THE-TOP AT MESNIL-LES-HURLUS DURING THE SECOND BATTLE OF…..

    December 16, 2024

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    David

    The photographed French soldiers were all from the 65th Infantry Regiment; Colonel Xavier Desgrées du Loû holding the flag, with his nephew Yves Desgrées du Loû and a Lieutenant Lerbet behind him.  All men were killed in the attack that ensued. The soldier on the left, Captain de Corta, was…

  • In 1904, a man named General Lee was accused of knocking on a white woman’s door in Reevesville, South Carolina.

    In 1904, a man named General Lee was accused of knocking on a white woman’s door in Reevesville, South Carolina.

    December 16, 2024

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    David

    He was ly.nched by a white mob General Lee was ly.nched on January 13, 1904, near Reevesville, Dorchester County, South Carolina.  He was an African American man, approximately thirty years old, with a wife named Henrietta and six children named Willie, Curtis, Bertha, Timothy, Nellie, and Lila. At the time…

  • An avowed atheist and free speech advocate, Percy Bysshe Shelley was a poet and playwright who married Mary Godwin in 1815, the famed author of “Frankenstein.” 

    An avowed atheist and free speech advocate, Percy Bysshe Shelley was a poet and playwright who married Mary Godwin in 1815, the famed author of “Frankenstein.” 

    December 16, 2024

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    David

    On this day in 1822, Percey boarded his new boat in the Mediterranean Sea, only to be hit by a violent storm during which he was thrown overboard and killed. A month later, his body was cremated in front of friends and family on a beach in Italy. For reasons…

  • DESPICABLE!

    DESPICABLE!

    December 16, 2024

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    David

    Despicable it might be, yet it is a relatively irrelevant incident in India. The latest is the case of Firoz, a 1 2. -year-old boy who is now reportedly suffering from serious psychological trauma after being forced by a Head Constable of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) to gather the…

  • EXECUTION IN IRAN

    EXECUTION IN IRAN

    December 16, 2024

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    David

    Although officially outlawed since 1981, human rights groups claim a number of people are still being stoned to death in Iran. This is likely due to the murky nature of Iran’s Sharia-based legal system where judges are only given vague punishment guidelines. This includes ordering judges to simply to execute…

  • THE TERRIBLE EXECUTION OF THE JOSEF SCHULZ AND THE PARTISANS

    THE TERRIBLE EXECUTION OF THE JOSEF SCHULZ AND THE PARTISANS

    December 16, 2024

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    David

    This event had taken place on the 20th of July 1941. As the German troops were pushing towards the Soviet union their main stop before crossing the borders were the Yugoslavian partisans fighting against fascism.  Most of the partisan members did not flee towards the Soviet Union as they wanted…

  • Karl Gebhardt was a respected surgeon and personal physician to Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS.

    Karl Gebhardt was a respected surgeon and personal physician to Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS.

    December 16, 2024

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    David

    During World War II, the Nazi doctor worked at the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where he had unfettered access to prisoners to use as subjects in experimentation.  Gebhardt exploited the opportunity, performing needless and painful tests. At one point, he attempted to transplant limbs from camp victims to German soldiers wounded…

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