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Interview with serial killer Aileen Wuornos. She killed 7 people. Before her execution On October 9, 2002, via lethal injection. Aileen Wuornos was a sex worker who shot and killed seven male clients, robbing them in the process. Wuornos asserted self-defense, alleging that her clients had raped or attempted to rape her. She was sentenced to death for six of the murders, and executed on October 9, 2002, via lethal injection. she had occupied. In 1986, 30-year-old Wuornos met 24-year-old Tyria Moore, a motel maid, at a Daytona Beach gay bar called Zodiac. They moved in together, and Wuornos supported them with her earnings as a prostitute. On July 4, 1987, Daytona Beach police detained Wuornos and Moore at a bar for questioning regarding an incident in which they were accused of assault and battery with a beer bottle. WATCH VIDEO FOOTAGE  On March 12, 1988, Wuornos accused a Daytona Beach bus driver of assault. She claimed that he pushed her off the bus following a confrontation. Moore

Just moments after this image was captured, SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau was snatched into the jaws of the orca pictured here and brutally killed. Her body was then thrashed about over the course of 45 minutes while the horrified crowd helplessly looked on. The autopsy report said that Brancheau died from drowning and blunt force trauma. Her spinal cord was severed, and she had sustained fractures to her jawbone, ribs, and a cervical vertebra. Her scalp was completely torn off from her head, and her left elbow and left knee had been dislocated. Dawn worked with orcas at SeaWorld Orlando for fifteen years. She was killed by an orca called Tilikum. Tilikum was also involved in the deaths of two other people: Keltie Byrne and Daniel P. Dukes. The orca that killed her, Tillikum, was captured in Iceland in 1983; about a year later, he was transferred to Sealand of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia.  He was subsequently transferred in 1992 to SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, where he

A filipino survivor of the Manila massacre, shows where a Japanese officer tried to behead him. The Manila massacre, also known as the Manila Massacre of 1945, occurred during the closing months of World War II in the Pacific. It involved the brutal killing of a large number of Filipino civilians, along with widespread looting and destruction, as the Japanese forces retreated from Manila in the face of the American advance. Survivors of such atrocities often carry harrowing memories, and their stories contribute to the historical understanding of the war's impact on civilian populations The Manila massacre, which took place from February 3 to March 3, 1945, was a tragic episode during the Battle of Manila. As American forces approached to liberate the city from Japanese occupation, the Japanese military carried out atrocities against the Filipino civilian population. Japanese troops committed wide

The organ transplant industry in China has a dark, hidden and often illegal side, some foreign experts have claimed in recent years. According to these experts, Chinese authorities murder some prisoners in “reeducation camps” to harvest their organs and sell them for transplant for high prices to local and foreign customers. In 2019, an international tribunal headed by the British barrister Geoffrey Nice published a report on organ transplants in China. It was based on months of discussions, presentation of evidence and analysis of findings, calling these acts crimes against humanity and “one of the worst atrocities committed” in modern times. Ethan Gutmann, a researcher and human rights activist, told Haaretz in late 2020 that some 15 million members of minorities in the Xinjiang province, including Uighur Muslims, underwent medical examinations essential to check matches of organs for transplant.  He said over a million of those tested were

Motel Manager James Brock pours Muriatic Acid in the Monson Motor Lodge Pool to evict black swimmers, 1964. The pool at this motel was designated “white only”. Whites who paid for motel rooms invited blacks to join them in the motel pool as their guests. This swim-in was planned by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and two associates. The motel manager, Jimmy Brock, in an effort to break up the party, poured a bottle of muriatic acid into the pool, hoping the swimmers would become scared and leave.  This famous photograph by Horace Cort shows a group of white and black integrationists in the former Monson Motor Lodge swimming pool on June 18, 1964. The photo was connected to the St. Augustine Movement, named for the town in Florida where it took place. Lots of peaceful protests and demonstrations were responded to with violence, which lead to more and more complicated protests. On June 11, 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr was arrested for trespas

Burned alive Rising campus violence raises need for reforms of justice system Jungle justice Jungle Justice has become a form of extrajudicial punishment that is alarmingly prevalent in Nigeria and now appears to be permeating educational institutions.  On a Friday night, May 25, 2024, a 200 level mechanical engineering student, Akor Alex, was accused of stealing a mobile phone, instead of reporting the incident to university authorities, his peers decided to take matters into their own hands. [ad] The brutal beating, recorded in short video clips, showed Alex being mercilessly assaulted with a cane, leading to his death the next morning, May 26, 2024. Similarly, Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere-Ekiti (BOUESTI) expelled two students involved in a widely circulated bullying incident. The viral video showed a group of female students bullying another student. Specifically, Opemiposi Precious Bolaji, an 18-year-old mass communic