A white supremacist gang member, Lawrence Russell Brewer, was executed for the infamous dragging-death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.
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White Supremacist Executed for Texas Dragging
Jack Kevorkian, the zealous, straight-talking American doctor known as “Dr. Death” for his lifelong crusade to legalize physician-assisted suicide died on Friday at a Detroit area hospital, the Associated Press reported. He was 83 years old. Dr. Kevorkian spent decades campaigning for the legalization of euthanasia. He served eight years in prison and was arrested numerous times for helping more than 130 patients commit suicide between 1990 and 2000, using injections, carbon monoxide and his infamous suicide machine, built from scraps for $30. Those he aided had terminal conditions such as multiple sclerosis, ALS and malignant brain tumors. Read full article > >
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‘Dr. Death’ Jack Kevorkian dies at age 83
NEW YORK — A jailed former Mafia boss who once ordered a payback killing in the infamous “Donnie Brasco” case made gangland history Tuesday by becoming the highest-ranking member of the city’s five Italian organized crime families to break their sacred vow of silence and testify against one of their own.
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Ex-NY mob boss breaks sacred vow, becomes highest ranked to testify against family member
Montgomery Blair Sibley might be best known as the lawyer who defended the “D.C. madam ,” the infamous escort service owner who claimed to attend to the needs of Washington’s elite.
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D.C.’s pot pioneers: Seeking a piece of the medical marijuana action
A Damien Hirst retrospective featuring his infamous “pickled shark” is one of the highlights at Tate Modern in 2012.
The elite religious organization that is sometimes referred to as The Family-and that owns the infamous C Street House in Washington, D.C., where many congressmen live-received money from an alleged Islamic terrorist group, according to a group of Ohio…
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Ex-NY mob boss breaks sacred vow, becomes highest ranked to testify against family member
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