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Boy, 10, 'tortured to death by mum and her boyfriend after telling them he was gay' Little Anthony Avalos was slammed onto the floor, burnt with cigarettes, had hot sauce poured into his mouth and was whipped with a belt, it is claimed. A 10-year-old boy was starved and tortured to death by his mother and her boyfriend after he told them he was  gay  , according to prosecutors. Anthony Avalos is said to have been 'abused to death' by those who should have looked after him at his home in the Mojave Desert, California. Heather Maxine Barron, 28, and her boyfriend, Kareem Ernesto Leiva, 32, have both been charged with torture and murder. The young boy was slammed onto the floor, had hot sauce poured into his mouth and was whipped with a belt, it is claimed. It's  also alleged he was burned with cigarettes and banned from using the toilet. Anthony’s eight siblings witnessed and...

Maniac who stabbed nine children to death in China is executed by firing squad Villagers crowded along a Chinese road to watch police cars escort killer Zhao Zewei to an execution ground A CHINESE man who stabbed nine school children to death has been executed by firing squad. Zhao Zewei received the death sentence after being convicted of intentional homicide for the lethal knife attack which also saw him injure 11 other pupils. The execution was carried out in the Mizhi county of Shaanxi yesterday, according to a statement from the Yulin City Intermediate Court. Zhao, 28, had not appealed against the death sentence after it was approved by China's Supreme Court. He reportedly took knives into his former middle school in April to carry out revenge for bullying. Zhao launched the vicious attack in Mizhi count, north-western China, to vent his anger over being tormented while a pupil there, a court statement said. But his motives...

Couple caught having sex outside Barcelona library Warning: very NSFW. Discretion is clearly not something that this couple are familiar with. They decided that the perfect place to have sex would be outside a library, despite it being the most spectacularly unsexy of locations. And inevitably they were caught on camera while they got down and dirty outside the Blanquerna library in Barcelona, at midday. The graphic footage was captured by a passing university student, who shared it online where it went viral. Here’s the video and another reminder that it’s very graphic, so it’s not our fault when your boss peers over your shoulder. There’s something unsettling about the video, which features a fully clothed man pumping away on top of a woman whose dress is pulled up. WATCH VIDEO FOOTAGE Just so you know, bunny ice cream cones exist in the world  After a while he gets up, leaving her on the floor, while she tries to help herself up. ...

China executes couple who flung two toddlers to their death China has executed a couple who fatally threw two children out of the window of an apartment building. Zhang Bo - the father of the children - and Ye Chengchen were previously found guilty of killing the two-year-old girl and one-year-old boy in 2020. Zhang had begun an affair with Ye and later divorced his wife, and began conspiring to kill his children. China's Supreme Court had called the couples' motives "extremely malicious", highlighting their "cruel methods". The couple were executed in the south-western city of Chongqing on Wednesday. It is not clear how the execution was carried out, although death sentences in China are mostly carried out by lethal injection or a firing squad. Zhang had begun an "inappropriate" relationship with Ye without informing her of his marital or parental status, but Ye continued to see him after knowing the truth...

  Bhopal gas tragedy: 15 shocking photos from 1984 On the Bhopal gas tragedy, we will not show you the candle-light vigils. We will show you the pictures of ground zero, to show how colossal the catastrophe was On the night of December 2, an industrial negligence in Bhopal led to a release of 30 tonnes of toxic methyl icocyanate(MIC)gas, exposing nearly 5 lakh people in the city to the deadly gas. A state government report said the accident caused more than 3500 deaths. And more than 8,000 died till now.  These were not the only causalities of the accident. Families of the dead and the maimed have died a thousand deaths for the last 30 years as government couldn't bring the people responsible for the accident to justice. Last month, the former chairman of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson,  the main accused of the tragedy, died after leading his whole life in freedom in the United States, leaving permanent questions on Indian system of justice...

The execution of mutineers by blowing from a gun by the British Army. Suppression of the Indian Revolt by the English which resulted execution by Cannon The invention of the cannon in the 12th century revolutionized warfare, and soon after, this powerful weapon found a horrifying use – executions. Cannons became instruments of torture, with condemned prisoners strapped to their muzzles and blasted to pieces. These disturbing photographs and depictions capture a forgotten chapter in history. The identities of these unfortunate souls, placed before the cannons with their backs to the inevitable, are lost to time. Their names remain unknown, yet their stories serve as a stark reminder of the brutality of the past. Ready to be shot from the mouth of a cannon – a Persian robber awaiting his execution The gun is loaded with powder and scraps of metal and the condemned man is roped, the muzzle touching his back. Circa 1870s. George Carter...

The Tragic Story Of Evelyn McHale, The Woman In The Infamous ‘Most Beautiful Self slaughter  Named by Life magazine as the “The Most Beautiful Suicide”: Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the Empire State Building, 1947 “The most beautiful suicide” – Evelyn McHale, 1947. This powerful photo taken by Robert C. Wiles was published as a full-page image in the 12 May 1947 issue of Life Magazine. It ran with the caption: “ At the bottom of the Empire State Building the body of Evelyn McHale reposes calmly in grotesque bier, her falling body punched into the top of a car “. Evelyn McHale is probably the most famous Empire State Building suicide victim. The young and pretty Evelyn leaped from the 86th-floor observatory in 1947 and landed on the roof of a United Nations limousine parked on the street Her calmly elegant demeanor, her legs crossed at the ankles, the way the car’s metal folded like sheets and framed her head and arms—perha...