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John Louis Evans III (January 4, 1950 – April 22, 1983) was the first inmate to be executed by the state of Alabama after the United States reinstituted the death penalty in 1976. The manner of his execution is frequently cited by opponents of capital punishment in the United States. Evans was born in Beaumont, Texas, and was executed at the ...
Lottery paradox. The lottery paradox [1] arises from Henry E. Kyburg Jr. considering a fair 1,000-ticket lottery that has exactly one winning ticket. If that much is known about the execution of the lottery, it is then rational to accept that some ticket will win. Suppose that an event is considered "very likely" only if the probability of it ...
Salvatore Mooney Giancana [1] ( / dʒiɑːnˈkɑːnə /; born Gilormo Giangana; [nb 1] Italian: [dʒiˈlɔrmo dʒaŋˈɡaːna]; May 24, 1908 [nb 2] – June 19, 1975) was an American mobster who was boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 to 1966. Giancana was born in Chicago to Italian immigrant parents. He joined the 42 Gang as a teenager ...
Air Jamaica's in-flight magazine Sky Writings called it a "Vibrant and beautifully executed 'dance-u-mentary'...which shines a spotlight on current Jamaican dance crazes." Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times observed that the DVD "clearly was made with outsiders and newcomers in mind", and that it showed that "Ding Dong is a likable star, even ...
The execution was carried out by a firing squad consisting of eight paratroop regiment soldiers brought in by two helicopters from the Boteni base: Captain Ionel Boeru, Sergeant-Major Georghin Octavian and Dorin-Marian Cîrlan, and five other non-commissioned officers who were selected from 20 volunteers.
Mary McGriff (née Vincent; born 1963) is an artist and victims' advocate. She became known to the public after surviving a violent attack in which her forearms were severed with an ax while hitchhiking in 1978.
John Clarence Woods (June 5, 1911 – July 21, 1950) was a United States Army master sergeant who, with Joseph Malta, carried out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of the Third Reich on October 16, 1946, after they were sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials. Time magazine credited him with 347 executions to that date ...
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, died under ...