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Most countries allow conditions that "affect the balance of the mind" to be regarded as mitigating circumstances. This means that a person may be found guilty of "manslaughter" on the basis of "diminished responsibility" rather than murder, if it can be proved that the killer was suffering from a condition that affected their judgment at the time. Depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and medication side-effects are examples of conditions that may b ...

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In the criminal law, murder is the crime where one human being causes the death of another human being, without lawful excuse, and with intent to kill or with an intent to cause grievous bodily harm (traditionally termed "malice aforethought") (see attempted murder where the mens rea (the Latin for "guilty mind") requirement is limited). In some common law jurisdictions, an accused is not guilty of murder if the victim lives for longer than a year and a day after the attack. This reflects the likelihood that, if the victim has ...

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Viola Gregg Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was a white civil rights activist from the U.S. state of Michigan and mother of five, who was murdered by Ku Klux Klan members after the 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama. One of the Klansmen was a paid informant for the FBI's COINTELPRO program, and after the murder, COINTELPRO spread vicious rumors about Liuzzo's supposed sexual escapades with black civil rights workers. Her name is one of those inscribed on a civil rights memorial in the state capital. ...

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The Creativity Movement is a racist, anti-semitic, anti-Christian and white-supremacist organization which advocates a "White Religion" called Creativity. The group denies the Holocaust, embraces racial neo-eugenics and improvement through human genetic engineering, with a religious mission which is dedicated to the "survival, expansion, and advancement of the White Race exclusively." The Creativity Movement was formerly known as the World Church of the Creator or WCOTC from 1996 to 2002, and ...

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Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment in the U.S. state of New Hampshire for the crime of capital murder. Twenty-four people have been executed since 1734, with the last execution carried out in 1939. As of 2005, there is no person on "Death Row". Hanging is the method of execution historically used in the state. Lethal injection, is currently the only legal form of execution ...

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A noted white supremacist, Chevie Kehoe is noted for his attempts to build an all-white country by overthrowing the United States. In November 2004, Kehoe plead Guilty to a charge of attempted murder, related to a Ohio shoot-out in February of 1997. Additional charges of murder and racketeering are underway in Arkansas where he killed a gun dealer and his family; Kehoe's mot ...

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The Tylenol murders occurred in the autumn of 1982, when seven people in the Chicago, Illinois area in the United States died after ingesting Extra Strength Tylenol medicine capsules which had been laced with cyanide poison. This incident was the first known case of death caused by deliberate product tampering. The perpetrator has never been caught, but the incident led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter substance and federal anti-tampering laws. 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders - The incidents. In ...

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Balbir Singh Sodhi (1949 - September 15, 2001) was a Mesa, Arizona gas station owner who was murdered in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. He made headlines because his was the first of a total of eight murder cases across the United States that were reported to the police as acts of retaliation for the terrorist attacks. According to family members, Singh Sodhi had been distraught because of the terrorist attacks. Born in Punjab, India, he was a member of the Sikh religion. He moved to Los Angeles in 1989, where ...

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Murder in Small Town X was an American reality television series that aired on FOX from July through September 2001. The show is noteworthy for the macabre and tragically ironic fate of its eventual winner. The premise of the show was to bring 10 contestants from around the United States to a small fishing village (called "Sunrise" in the show) on the coast of Maine to act as amateur detectives to solve a series of fictional murders. Initially, the contestants were given a list of 16 suspects who were "townspeople ...

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After leaving school in the ninth grade, Boyd later joined the United States Army and volunteered for a tour of duty in Vietnam in 1967. Two years later he received an honorable discharge. After his first marriage had ended in divorce, he married Julie. This second marriage, which resulted in three boys, had a series of arguments, separations, and reconciliations. On March 4, 1988 he went to the house of her father, where she and their children were living, while Boyd and Julie were separated once again. He told police that he found t ...

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The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado, near Denver and Littleton, Colorado, in the United States. Two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, carried out a shooting rampage, killing twelve fellow students and a teacher, as well as wounding twenty-four others, before committing suicide. It is considered to be the deadliest school ...

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In many countries there exists freedom of religion, and separation of church and state. Some of these countries are, also concerned with possible abuses by cults and have taken restrictive measures against some of their activities. Those measures were generally motivated by various crimes committed inside cults, especially by a string of murderous incidents involving doomsday cults circa 1995. There exists a controversy regarding religious tolerance between the United States and several European countries, especially France and German ...

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The Black Legion was an offshoot organization of the Ku Klux Klan and operated in the midwestern United States in the 1930's. The organization was founded by William Shepard. [1] The group's total membership was estimated between 20,000 and 30,000, centered in Detroit, Michigan. The Black Legion was also the name of a 1937 Humphrey Bogart film, featuring a fictionalized version of the group. Members wore black uniforms with skull and crossbones insignia and were allegedly responsible for numerous murders of alleged communists and socialists, notably Earl Little, Malcolm X's fath ...

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The Attica Correctional Facility is one of the most well known prisons in the United States, second possibly to Alcatraz. It is located in Attica, New York, a small town located midway between Buffalo and Rochester. It held many of the worst criminals of the time when it was constructed in the 1920s. A tear gas system is installed in the mess hall and industry areas and has been used to cease conflicts in these areas. The prison now holds many people who are serving 25 years-to-life terms for murder. Attica was the site of a prison riot in 197 ...

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Arson in royal dockyards was among the last offences that was punishable by execution in the United Kingdom. It remained a capital offence even after the death penalty was abolished for murder, although there is no evidence that anyone was ever actually executed for it. The Criminal Law Consolidation Act of 1861 removed various capital offences from the British statute-books, leaving only four, of which arson in royal dockyards was one. In a speech in the House of Lords in 1998, Lord Goodhart stated that this offence disappeared from

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Charles Rodman Campbell was a convicted murderer who was executed in 1994. His case highlights some of the legal controversy surrounding capital punishment in the United States. Campbell was charged with the April 1982 killing of Renae Wicklund, her eight-year old daughter Shannah, and her neighbor Barbara Hendrickson, in Clearview, Snohomish County, Washington. He was convicted and sentenced to death. However, that was not the first time Campbell had harmed the Wicklund household: he had been previously convicted and se ...

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With the capture of Captain Jack, General Davis made preparations to execute the leaders of Jack's band. Execution was prevented by orders from the War Department. The orders were that the Indians would be held for trial. On July 4, Captain Jack and his band arrived as prisoners of war at Fort Klamath. Captain Jack, John Schonchin, Black Jim, Boston Charley, Brancho (Barncho) and Slolux were immediately put on trial for the murder of members of the Peace Commission. The six Modoc were found guilty ...

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The U. S. Army made preparations to attack the Stronghold. On April 15 a general attack began, troops advancing from Gillem's camp on the west and Mason's camp at Hospital Rock, northeast of the Stronghold. Fighting continued throughout the day, the troops remaining in position during the night. Each advance of troops on the 16th was under heavy fire from the Modoc positions. That night the troops succeeded in cutting the Modoc off from their water supply at the shore of Tule Lake. By the morning of April 17 everything was in readiness for t ...

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