All tagged execution
On Halloween night in 1974, Texas, Timothy O’Bryan ingested Pixy Sticks supposedly given to him while he was out trick-or-treating and died an hour later. Police would discover traces of cyanide mixed with the sugar. Timothy’s father, Ronald O’Bryan, would later be arrested and executed for his son’s murder.
It was the biggest trial of the Cold War. On one end, most American media supported the death penalty that loomed for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But sixty-nine years after the execution, the case may never be settled to absolute satisfaction, and scholars still debate whether Ethel died innocent.
October 2002 heralded a three-week murder spree that would terrorize citizens across the Washington Metropolitan Area. However, the Beltway snipers had already claimed several victims earlier that year, and accumulated a body count that neared 20 before they were apprehended.
Barry Gilton and Lupe Mercado took the law into their own hands in 2012, hunting down and murdering Calvin Sneed, who’d allegedly pimped their teenage daughter. There’s a reason the legal system upholds the principle of ‘innocent until guilty,’ but the fantasy of the hero vigilante is hard to shake.
Tang Lu, a Chinese man who murdered his ex-wife, was executed on Saturday morning. Tang Lu murdered his ex-wife, Amuchu, by dousing her in gasoline and lighting her on fire, while she was livestreaming on social media.
A police raid conducted in Rio de Janeiro’s densely-populated Complexo do Alemão on Thursday resulted in at least 18 deaths. The community was raided by nearly 400 police officers in a several-hour operation.
In 1932, America was electrified by the kidnapping of renowned aviator Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son. The legendary trial to come would launch the true crime genre into the media titan we know it as today.
Along with Vlad the Impaler, Countess Elizabeth Bathory may be one of history’s most infamous inspirations for the vampire legend. Her reputation for brutality emerged from the torture of her victims — an habit she allegedly enjoyed for years until even her royal background could not save her.
What else has happened on July 4th in history? Most people know that the Fourth of July is known as Independence Day in the USA, but what other notable events have taken place on July 4th?
On this day in 1931, Peter Kurten was convicted for 9 murders and received 9 death sentences.
In 1660, Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for her protests against Puritan anti-Quaker laws. Her civil disobedience laid a path for the religious tolerance that the American government was founded on a century later.
In 1876, Stephen Dee Richards left his home and his family in Ohio to go west in hopes of finding wealth. Within two weeks of arriving in Nebraska, he would commit his first murder, with eight more to follow. This would go on to give him the title as the first serial killer in Nebraska.
Carlos DeLuna, 27, was executed by lethal injection for the 1983 murder of 24-year-old Wanda Lopez— a crime he didn’t commit. DeLuna maintained his innocence all the way up until his final breath.
Just before Christmas in 1987, Ronald Gene Simmons began a murder spree that claimed the lives of 14 memebers of his family and 2 strangers over the course of several days. Ronald invited his 7 children and their partners over for a holiday dinner, with a plan to systematically murder all of them.
Convicted murderer Bigler Jobe "Bud" Stouffer II on Thursday became the oldest inmate in Oklahoma history to be executed. He was 79.
David Neal Cox admitted to the 2007 killing of his sister-in-law, Felecia Cox, a cold case in which he had long been the prime suspect, prosecutors said.
Nathaniel Woods was unarmed when three Birmingham police officers were fatally shot by someone else in 2004. But Woods, a Black man, was convicted of capital murder for his role in the deaths of the three white officers.
