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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…