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Daniel Pearl, 2002 News
38, Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, was kidnapped and murdered in January in Karachi, Pakistan, where he was researching a story about alleged “shoe bomber” Richard Reid. British-…Jack Kevorkian, 1999 News
71, physician, made the leap from assisted-suicide doctor to murderer when he administered a lethal injection to Lou Gehrig's disease patient Thomas Youk. Kevorkian had the 1998 event…Robert Blake, 2002 News
actor, was arrested in April and charged with murdering his wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, who was shot in the head in a car parked outside a California restaurant in May 2001. Blake said he went…Phoolan Devi, 37, 2001 News
India's “bandit queen,” was assassinated by masked gunmen in July. As a teen, she and her lover, Vikram Mallah, led a gang of murderous desperadoes. Eventually some gang members turned on them,…Gen. Augusto Pinochet, 1998 News
Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990, was arrested in a London hospital in October while recovering from surgery on a herniated disk. He was charged by a Spanish magistrate on grounds of…Agatha Christie
Name at birth: Agatha May Clarissa MillerAgatha Christie was the world's most popular mystery author during a long career that stretched from the 1920s through the 1970s. She has sold more than two…Nat Turner
Nat Turner was a black preacher who led an 1831 uprising in Southampton County, Virginia in which at least 55 whites were killed by a group of about 50 slaves. Turner was a deeply religious man who…Brewer's: Piso's Justice
That is Piso's justice. Verbally right, but morally wrong. Seneca tells us that Piso condemned a man on circumstancial evidence for murder; but when the suspect was at the place of…Brewer's: Bleed
To make a man bleed is to make him pay dearly for something; to victimise him. Money is the life-blood of commerce. It makes my heart bleed. It makes me very sorrowful. She found them…Brewer's: Ku-Klux-Klan
(The). (1864-1876.) A secret society in the Southern States of America against the negro class, to intimidate, flog, mutilate, or murder those who opposed the laws of the society. In…Trending
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