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Rodney Hulin Jr. (March 2, 1978 – May 9, 1996) committed suicide by hanging in the Clemens Unit in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas ( Greater Houston) on January 26, 1996 after being raped in prison; he died months after he fatally injured himself. Hulin became a symbol of a movement that advocated not placing juvenile offenders in adult ...
Newspaper photo taken shortly after the arrest of Sada Abe (center) in Tokyo in 1936. Sada Abe (1905–after 1971), Japanese geisha killed her lover through strangulation while he was sleeping, after having experimented with erotic asphyxiation, in 1936, proceeding to cut off his penis and testicles and carry them around with her in her kimono for three days.
Murder of John Wait. John Black, Mahlon Christie, Isaac Kent, and George Orcote. 4 June 1814 (other accounts indicate date was in the spring of 1812 or around New Year's Eve 1813) [ 15] Shot. Desertion. James Graham [ 15] 29 July 1814. Hanging. Murders of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGiffrey.
Atwater prison is a high-security facility for men in Merced County, California, 130 miles (209 km) from San Francisco. Around 1,200 people are incarcerated there.
Sitting in the noisy dayroom of Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif., as he speaks over a grainy video call, Scott Peterson looks more like a laidback surfer than a man convicted of the heinous ...
Eric Edgar Cooke was born on 25 February 1931 in Victoria Park, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, and was the eldest of three children. [2] He was born into an unhappy, violent family; his parents married solely because his mother, Christine Edgar, was pregnant with him.
Detail from a painting by Pisanello, 1436–1438. Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer ...
t. e. James Pratt (1805–1835), [ 1][ 2] also known as John Pratt, and John Smith (1795–1835) [ 1][ 2] were two London men who, in November 1835, became the last two to be executed for sodomy in England. [ 3] Pratt and Smith were arrested in August of that year after being spied on through a keyhole allegedly having carnal knowledge of each ...