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18 hours ago · Moratorium introduced 30 April 2004 by President Emomali Rahmon, which means instead of capital punishment, the individual shall receive a life in prison. Persons excluded from death row are: the elderly, women, pregnant women, intellectually disabled, the mentally ill, and teenagers who were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime.
18 hours ago · William George Bonin (January 8, 1947 – February 23, 1996), also called the Freeway Killer and the Freeway Strangler, was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered young men and boys between November 1968 and June 1980 in southern California.
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- Ashes scattered in Pacific Ocean
- The Freeway Killer, The Freeway Strangler
- Execution by lethal injection
18 hours ago · Background Main articles: Davidian Seventh-day Adventist, Mount Carmel Center, Branch Davidians, and David Koresh The Branch Davidians (also known as "The Branch") were a religious group that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Shepherd's Rod (Davidians) following the death of the Shepherd's Rod founder Victor Houteff. Houteff founded the Davidians based on his prophecy of an imminent apocalypse involving the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the defeat of the evil armies of Babylon. As ...
6 hours ago · Chinese billionaire Hui Qin, who pleaded guilty to funnelling illegal straw donations to politicians’ campaigns in the United States, was sentenced to prison for seven months and quickly left the country as part of his deal with prosecutors to forfeit his green card. According to a report by the news agency Associated Press, Qin, 56, a Chinese film magnate, appeared in a federal court in Central Islip, New York, and was awarded the prison sentence.
18 hours ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of King Henry II.
18 hours ago · Updated May 10, 2024 at 11:40 a.m.Nelson Mandela was sworn into the presidency at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa on this day in 1994.
18 hours ago · He was incarcerated at Fresnes prison where he died on 24 October 1944 under unclear circumstances, while awaiting trial. On 1 January 1945, by de Gaulle's decree, the company was posthumously expropriated from Louis Renault. On 16 January 1945, it was formally nationalised as Régie Nationale des Usines Renault.
