| July 30, 2007 | -
Ingmar Bergman
died.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| September 28, 2006 | - The U.S. military, short of buglers who can play taps at military funerals, was waiting for an order of 700 automated $500 digital bugles.
| Source:
The St. Petersburg Times
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| May 4, 2006 | - In Hungary, it was widely reported, construction workers renovating a house discovered, and drank, a barrel of rum; when the barrel was empty they found that it contained a pickled human corpse (the story was later revealed as an urban legend).
| Source:
The Advertiser
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| September 7, 2005 | - A Brussels woman urinating in a graveyard was crushed to death by a falling gravestone.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 27, 2005 | - Scientists in Pittsburgh killed a dog, then resurrected it hours later with fresh blood.
| Source:
News.com.au
|
| June 10, 2005 | - Two women were upset when they visited a Houston
mausoleum and found that the cremated remains of their mother had been replaced by a can of sour-cream-and-onion potato chips.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| May 17, 2005 | - American funeral homes were earning frequent-flier miles every time they shipped a corpse.
| Source:
Wall Street Journal
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| April 28, 2005 | - An Australian
cemetery received permission to bury people upright and without coffins.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| March 10, 2005 | - “We are all waiting for death,” said an Iraqi soldier, “like the moon waiting for sunset.”
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| February 26, 2005 | - A New Hampshire
crematorium was found to be throwing pacemakers and metallic hips into a dumpster.
| Source:
7 News Boston
|
| February 20, 2005 | - A study showed that 310,000 Europeans
die from air pollution each year,.
| Source:
The Independent
|
| January 27, 2005 | - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist declared that biological warfare is "the greatest existential threat we face today."
| Source:
Reuters
|
| December 26, 2004 | - A 9.0 magnitude earthquake created a tsunami that ravaged south and southeast Asia, as well as parts of Africa. The wave reached from Somalia and Kenya to Malaysia. Thousands of fatalities were reported in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, South India, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. Three-story waves washed sunbathers into the sea, carried away snorkelers, and swallowed up Hindu ritual bathers celebrating Full Moon Day. A prison in Sumatra was torn open by the tsunami, and hundreds of inmates fled. A baby was washed from her father's arms. At least 25,000 died, and millions were displaced. Entire towns were turned into rubble. Corpses hung from trees and fences, and the rotting bodies of humans and animals threatened to pollute water supplies. It was difficult to bury the dead for lack of dry ground. The earthquake was the largest since 1964, and slightly altered the rotation of the earth.
| Source 1:
New York Timesimes
Source 2:
Wikipedia
Source 3:
New York Timesimes
Source 4:
MSNBC
Source 5:
Reuters
|
| December 20, 2004 | - Scientists estimated that ten percent of all bird species will become extinct by the end of the century, and enrollment was down at London's premier Santa school.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Stanford University
|
| November 13, 2003 | - Four soldiers just back from Iraq were charged with stabbing another soldier to death, setting his body on fire, and leaving it in the woods.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| October 10, 2003 | - A shoplifter in Amsterdam was kicked to death by supermarket employees.
| Source:
Scotsman.com
|
| October 10, 2003 | - A penis-snatcher was beaten to death in Gambia.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| September 13, 2003 | - Two hundred chickens were beaten to death with a golf club near Brisbane, Australia.
| Source:
Courier-Mail
|
| September 5, 2003 | - Three Israeli F-15 fighter jets piloted by the descendants of Holocaust survivors flew over the Auschwitz
death camp in Poland during a memorial service.
The Auschwitz Museum had opposed the flyover, saying that a military display was inappropriate on such an occasion.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| August 28, 2003 | - In Nigeria, the young mother who was sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock begged for mercy as she nursed her baby in court; her lawyers argued that the child was conceived while the mother was married and that under Islamic Law a baby can gestate in its mother's womb for five years.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 26, 2003 | - Two Iranian intelligence officers were charged with "semi-intentionally" causing the death of a Canadian photojournalist.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| August 24, 2003 | - John Geoghan, a defrocked pedophile priest, was strangled to death in prison.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 16, 2003 | - A German tourist was arrested for trying to steal a crematorium door from a former Nazi
death camp in Poland.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| July 4, 2003 | - Coca-Cola's bottler in Colombia was sued for financing right-wing death squads.
| Source:
News.com.au
|
| July 2, 2003 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel and Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas of the Occupied Territories got together on their own initiative and shook hands publicly; Abbas expressed his wish to end suffering, death, and pain.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| June 1, 2003 | -
President Bush went on a tour of Europe and visited the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, where he wrote "never forget" in the guest book; a few hours later he made a speech at a castle and used the occasion to congratulate himself for invading Iraq.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| June 1, 2003 | - William J. Bennett, the author of The Book of Virtues, The death of Outrage, and The Moral Compass, among other books, was revealed to be a high-stakes gambler who has blown up to $8 million over the last decade playing high-limit slot machines and video poker. Bennett acknowledged that he has never condemned the vice of gambling.
| Source:
Washington Monthly
|
| May 26, 2003 | - Maj. Gen. Geoffery Miller, the commander of Camp Delta, the Guantánamo Bay concentration camp for suspected terrorists, announced plans to build a death row and an execution chamber at the camp.
| Source:
Courier Mail (Australia)
|
| April 29, 2003 | -
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites traveled to Karbala to flagellate themselves in commemoration of the death of Hussein, Muhammad's grandson.
| |
| April 15, 2003 | -
In New York City, a bouncer who attempted to enforce the city's new smoking ban in a bar on the Lower East Side was stabbed to death.
| |
| March 25, 2003 | -
“This military action cannot be justified in any way,” said President Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gerhard Schroeder of Germany observed that the president's decision meant “certain death to thousands of innocent men, women, and children.” Pope John Paul II said that the invasion of Iraq “threatened the destiny of humanity.” The United States Congress quickly voted to endorse the president's declaration of war.
| |
| March 18, 2003 | -
Tom Ridge, the secretary of “homeland” security, declared that suicide bombings in the United States are “inevitable.” An Israeli soldier killed an American girl who knelt down in front of his bulldozer to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home; Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old from Olympia, Washington, was wearing a bright orange jacket and was shouting at the driver with a bullhorn before she went down on her knees.
The bulldozer kept on rolling, crushing her to death.
| |
| February 18, 2003 | -
Fourteen Muslim pilgrims were trampled to death in Saudi Arabia during the Hajj while performing a stone-throwing ritual.
| |
| February 11, 2003 | -
The draft bill, entitled the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, contains proposals to radically expand the authority of law-enforcement agencies, to increase the surveillance of American citizens, and to reduce or eliminate judicial oversight over that surveillance; it would also authorize secret arrests, create a DNA database of “suspected terrorists,” create new death penalties, and empower the government to strip American citizenship from anyone who “provides material support” to a terrorist organization.
| |
| January 21, 2003 | -
Governor Gray Davis of California proposed spending $220 million on a new state-of-the-art death row.
| |
| January 14, 2003 | -
Ryan, whose last day in office was Monday, said that “the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious—and therefore immoral.” A federal appeals court ruled that President George W. Bush may at his sole discretion strip Yasser Esam Hamdi, a United States citizen raised in Saudi Arabia and captured in Afghanistan, of his constitutional protections because of the need to fight the war on terrorism.
| |
| January 7, 2003 | -
South Korea's president-elect said that he was skeptical about President Bush's policies on North Korea, particularly the new notion of “tailored containment” that was suggested this week.
“Success or failure of a U.S. policy toward North Korea isn't too big a deal to the American people,” he said.
“But it is a life-or-death matter for South Koreans.”
| |
| January 7, 2003 | -
Imran Abu Hamdiya, a 17-year-old boy from Hebron, was found beaten to death in a local industrial park shortly after he was seen being taken away by Israeli border police. “Every day they take men,” said one mourner at the boy's funeral. “They hit them and they break their bones. What kind of life is this?”
| |
| December 31, 2002 | -
Another suspected vampire was stoned to death.
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| December 24, 2002 | -
Two prominent teaching hospitals, apparently unconvinced that a smallpox attack is suddenly a real danger, refused to allow their employees to be vaccinated for smallpox, saying that the risks of side effects, including death, are too great.
| |
| November 26, 2002 | -
Protests continued in Iran against the death sentence of a reformist scholar, who was also sentenced to 8 years in prison, 74 lashes, and a 10-year ban from teaching for saying that Muslims should not blindly follow religious leaders like monkeys.
| |
| October 29, 2002 | -
Newly declassified documents revealed that in 1976, on the day before Chilean agents assassinated Orlando Letelier with a car bomb in Washington, D.C., a senior State Department official told American ambassadors not to speak to their local Latin American dictators about the need to stop using death squads to deal with dissidents.
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| October 15, 2002 | -
“The death of that man is a religious duty,” he said, “but his case should not be tied to the Christian community.” Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah disagreed and said that Muslims should not use physical violence against Falwell because Islam is “a religion of mercy and love.”
| |
| October 15, 2002 | -
Two British and one American scientist were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work on cell death, the process by which healthy cells commit suicide.
| |
| October 15, 2002 | -
The Washington sniper continued to shoot people and broadened his targets to include children, and he left a tarot “death card” at the scene of one shooting on which he wrote: “Dear Policeman, I am God.” The American Tarot Association posted a list of “fast facts” on its website about the death card and said that the killer obviously knows nothing at all about tarot.
| |
| October 15, 2002 | -
A Chinese appeals court overturned the death sentences of three Christian leaders; they were promptly resentenced to life in prison.
Four other Christians were acquitted and then rearrested and sent without trial to a “reeducation through labor” camp.
| |
| October 8, 2002 | -
Britain ordered warplanes into the London skies to escort a flight from Baltimore after an eavesdropping passenger overheard the words “planning for six months” but not the words “family reunion.” A mob of children in Milwaukee beat a man to death.
| |
| October 1, 2002 | -
A federal district judge in Vermont ruled that the Federal death Penalty Act of 1994 is unconstitutional because it violates the right to due process and the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses; in July, a federal judge in New York also declared the law unconstitutional, saying it was in effect the “state-sponsored murder of innocent human beings.”
| |
| September 24, 2002 | -
The six Arab men from Lackawanna, New York, who were accused of being a secret Al Qaeda cell were charged with “providing material support” to terrorists under the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective death Penalty Act, which a federal judge recently declared “unconstitutional on its face.” The government admitted it had no evidence of any specific crime that the men were planning to commit, though prosecutors alluded to “catastrophes of biblical proportion.” Almost 15 million people in southern Africa are in danger of starving, the head of the World Food Program said, and Ethiopia announced that it was running out of food.
| |
| September 24, 2002 | -
France released Maurice Papon, who was imprisoned for deporting Jews to the Nazi death camps, because he is old and sick.
| |
| September 10, 2002 | -
A schoolteacher in North Carolina was reprimanded for correctly using the word “niggardly.” Contestants in the Miss World pageant, which is to be held in Nigeria, were threatening to boycott the event to protest the death-by-stoning sentence of a young single mother.
| |
| September 10, 2002 | -
Officials in Indiana were investigating the mysterious death of 200 tadpoles.
| |
| September 3, 2002 | -
Umbro, a British shoe company, said that its Zyklon running shoe had nothing to do with the poison gas Zyklon B, which the Nazis used in their death camps; the company explained that the similarity was an “unfortunate coincidence.”
| |
| July 30, 2002 | -
A pet-shop employee in Pennsylvania stomped a kitten to death in front of the children who were waiting to buy it.
The man, who was sentenced to 100 hours of service to the community, claimed the kitten was biting him.
| |
| July 16, 2002 | -
Guatemala's government proposed a new tax to fund benefits for former members of paramilitary death squads.
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| July 16, 2002 | -
“I was concerned,” she said, “that the American public would be led to believe that my daughter is an atheist.” A Baptist minister and his twin brother were arrested for almost beating an 11-year-old boy to death for cheating in Bible study class.
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| July 9, 2002 | -
A judge in Manhattan ruled that the federal death penalty is unconstitutional; the judge wrote that the number of exonerations due to DNA evidence demonstrated that there is an “undue risk of executing innocent people” and that capital punishment thus violates the constitutional right to due process.
| |
| July 2, 2002 | -
President Bush extended death benefits to same-sex partners of officers killed in the line of duty and officially transferred his presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for a few hours while doctors inserted a lighted scope up his rectum.
| |
| June 11, 2002 | -
A Nigerian woman who was convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning was given a two-year reprieve so that she can wean her baby.
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| June 11, 2002 | -
A Japanese man was stabbed to death with an umbrella, the second such killing in a month.
| |
| May 14, 2002 | -
The shrunken head of an Indian woman that was stolen from the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera, Texas, was found in a bag on the side of a road. “She looks all right,” said the local police chief. “They're just tickled to death that nobody tore her up. We're still going to investigate it, and hopefully we can get somebody in jail.”
| |
| May 7, 2002 | -
The largest organization of right-wing death squads in Colombia, the United Self Defense Forces, established a complaints hotline.
| |
| April 2, 2002 | -
Arafat said that he wished for a martyr's death and was for a time reduced to a single candle for light as he listened to the muffled Hebrew of his captors through the walls.
| |
| March 26, 2002 | -
A woman whose dog mauled a neighbor to death was convicted of second-degree murder.
| |
| March 26, 2002 | -
A jury ordered Philip Morris to pay $150 million in damages to the estate of a deceased smoker, for falsely insinuating that low-tar cigarettes are less dangerous than regular cigarettes. The jury determined that the tobacco company bore 51 percent of the responsibility for the smoker's death, with the victim herself 49 percent responsible for choosing to smoke.
| |
| March 19, 2002 | -
A report revealed that in the past several months, the United States secretly extradited dozens of terrorism suspects to other countries, such as Egypt and Jordan, where they can be subjected to torture, threats to their families, and other interrogation tactics that are illegal in the U.S. The Pentagon revised the bounty for Osama bin Laden after determining that the average Afghan could not comprehend the magnitude of the previous reward, $25 million, rendering the incentive meaningless. The new prize is “anything the Americans think the Afghans would like to have,” including cash, a flock of sheep, or help in drilling a well.
President Bush reflected, “[Bin Laden] is . . . you know, as I mention in my speeches, I do mention the fact that this is a fellow who's willing to commit youngsters to their death, and he himself tries to hide, if, in fact, he's hiding at all.”
France went on full hijack alert because an air-traffic controller misunderstood a warning message in English, believing the pilot was reporting “five men on board” instead of “fire on board.”
The Immigration and Naturalization Service issued student visas for Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi six months after they crashed planes into the World Trade Center; President Bush reported that the imbroglio left him feeling “plenty hot.”
People were complaining about “The Fighting Whities,” a basketball team at the University of Northern Colorado whose white jerseys sport an image of a white man in a suit above the slogan “Every thang's gonna be all white!”
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| March 12, 2002 | -
A woman in Fort Worth, Texas, was arrested for running over a homeless man and then parking her car, with the injured man still stuck in her windshield, in her garage; her lawyer denied accusations that his client apologized to the man, ignored his cries for help for three days, and let him bleed to death, but did not dispute the fact that her boyfriend dumped the victim's lifeless body in a park.
| |
| February 19, 2002 | -
Up to 270 million monarch butterflies froze to death in a winter storm in Mexico.
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| January 22, 2002 | -
Iran's supreme ayatollah pardoned a liberal member of parliament who was convicted of “insulting the judiciary.” A Nigerian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery will have to wait two months for her appeal to be heard while the judges make their annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
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| January 22, 2002 | -
Germany's highest court ruled that Muslims could slaughter animals by letting them bleed to death.
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| January 1, 2002 | -
“I don't spend a lot of time looking in the mirror, except when I comb my hair.” A Pakistani newspaper reported that Osama bin Laden had died “a peaceful, natural death” near Tora Bora from a “serious lung complication.” An Afghan functionary said that bin Laden had escaped to Pakistan and was under the protection of the extremist Jamiat-e-Ulema-i-Islam party.
| |
| November 27, 2001 | - Yaakov Levy, an Israeli delegate, told the committee that a “close reading” of the 1987 Convention Against Torture, which Israel signed, “clearly suggests that pain and suffering, in themselves, do not necessarily constitute torture.” An Israeli death squad killed a Hamas leader in the West Bank who was suspected of planning suicide attacks.
| |
| November 6, 2001 | - America recalled its ambassador from Venezuela after President Hugo Chávez denounced the Afghan
war as “fighting terrorism with terrorism” and a “slaughter of innocents.” A Michigan fisherman was attacked by an enraged 200-pound deer; he wrestled the beast for 45 minutes, strangled it with his belt, and finally clubbed it to death with a piece of wood.
| |
| October 30, 2001 | -
Donald Rumsfeld asserted that the Afghan
war is “not a quagmire.” Israelis and Palestinians continued to make war on one another; the death count rose to 728 Palestinians and 186 Israelis.
| |
| October 23, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad assassinated a Hamas leader while he was praying on his roof. “This is not the first and not the last,” Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared. A few days later a Palestinian
death squad assassinated Rehavan Zeevi, Israel's minister of tourism, who had been a strong advocate of “transferring” all Palestinians out of the occupied territories.
| |
| October 23, 2001 | - A new study found that AIDS is now the leading cause of death in South Africa.
| |
| October 16, 2001 | - In Nigeria, a pregnant woman was sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of premarital sex.
| |
| October 9, 2001 | - New research suggested that the Black death might have been an Ebola-like hemorrhagic virus.
| |
| September 11, 2001 | - A 17-year-old Siberian boy beat his parents to death with an iron bar because they were trying to put a stop to his video-gambling habit; he was arrested at the video arcade.
| |
| September 11, 2001 | - Sudden oak death, a mysterious disease that causes its victims to weep sap, was killing trees in California.
| |
| September 4, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad using American-made weapons
assassinated Mustafa Zubari, also known as Abu Ali Mustafa, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
| |
| August 21, 2001 | - An Oklahoma prison inmate tried to escape by hiding in the outgoing trash and was crushed to death in a garbage truck.
| |
| August 14, 2001 | - A homeless man in Brooklyn fell to his death while defecating into a manhole he habitually used as a toilet.
| |
| August 14, 2001 | - Sixteen garment workers were crushed to death in a stampede in Bangladesh that was caused by a faulty fire alarm; the gates on the factory's eight floors had been locked to prevent workers from leaving.
| |
| August 7, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad assassinated two Hamas leaders along with six others, including two young boys (seven-year-old Bilal Abu Khader and his five-year-old brother, Ashraf) who happened to be walking by when the missiles exploded. “Today is a day of one of our most important successes,” said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
| |
| July 24, 2001 | -
Trade
unions and human-rights groups filed suit against Coca-Cola for allegedly hiring right-wing death squads to terrorize workers at bottling plants in Colombia.
| |
| July 24, 2001 | -
Obese people who exercise were found to have half the death rate of skinny people who don't.
| |
| July 17, 2001 | - A police officer was stoned to death in Jamaica.
| |
| July 17, 2001 | -
Chinese
police arrested a butcher named Guan Jiadong who hacked to death four health inspectors and wounded three others after they tried to confiscate his meat.
| |
| July 10, 2001 | -
Israel's
security cabinet decided that it would continue to use death squads to eliminate suspected Palestinian
terrorists.
| |
| July 3, 2001 | - A mob of students in Paterson, New Jersey, beat a homeless drunk to death with his own beer bottle.
| |
| June 26, 2001 | - Governor Rick Perry of Texas vetoed legislation banning the execution of retarded people just a few days after President Bush declared that retards should never be put to death; Bush and Perry both have claimed that Texas has never done so, though six inmates with IQs below 70 have been put down since 1980.
| |
| June 19, 2001 | - A group of Holocaust survivors sued the French railroad in a Brooklyn court because its trains were used to carry Jews and others to the death camps.
| |
| June 12, 2001 | - The United States Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a retarded Texan.
| |
| June 12, 2001 | - Carlos Castaño, the leader of the United Self-Defense Forces, an army of death squads that terrorize Colombia, said he was retiring to devote more time to poisoning the legitimate political process.
| |
| May 29, 2001 | - Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, the cousin of the emir of Qatar, was sentenced to death for attempting in 1996 to overthrow the government; Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the current emir, took power in 1995 after he overthrew his own father.
| |
| May 22, 2001 | - There were reports that an Iranian woman would be stoned to death for killing her husband, who was buried next to a cow's skull in a fruit garden.
| |
| May 15, 2001 | - Richard Baumhammers, an immigration lawyer who ran amok last year and murdered
a Jewish neighbor, two Asians, an Indian, and a black, was sentenced to death.
| |
| May 1, 2001 | - Six Red Cross members were shot and hacked to death with machetes in Congo.
| |
| April 24, 2001 | - A barber in Amsterdam who stabbed a violent customer to death with a pair of scissors was released after it was found that he acted in self-defense.
| |
| April 17, 2001 | - The Dutch legalized euthanasia; Germany's
Roman Catholic Church denounced the decision and warned against adopting a “culture of death.” China executed 89 people in one day.
| |
| April 17, 2001 | - The Texas legislature approved a resolution that could lead to a referendum on the death penalty.
| |
| April 3, 2001 | - Marjorie Knoller, a San Francisco lawyer whose dog Bane killed a young woman who lived next door, was indicted for second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and failure to control a mischievous animal that causes a death.
| |
| March 13, 2001 | - A seventeen-year-old boy beat his father to death with a baseball bat because he didn't want to turn off two radios and a television that he was listening to simultaneously; the boy told police that he then went bowling, tried to slash his wrists, and deliberately crashed his dead father's Jeep in a second attempt to end it all.
| |
| February 6, 2001 | - Refugees in Afghanistan were freezing to death.
| |
| February 6, 2001 | - Members of the Hema and Lendu tribes were hacking one another to death with machetes in the Congo.
| |
| January 30, 2001 | - A Jewish settler who beat a ten-year-old Palestinian boy to death (after kicking the little boy to the ground, Nahum Kurman placed his foot on the boy's neck and repeatedly struck his head with a pistol butt) was sentenced to six months of community service.
| |
| January 30, 2001 | - Millions of cattle were freezing to death in Mongolia.
| |
| January 9, 2001 | - They were the ninety-first and ninety-second condemned inmates to be exonerated since 1973, when the death penalty was reinstated.
| |
| January 2, 2001 | - Pope John Paul II warned that a “culture of death” was threatening the future.
| |
| 0, 2000 | - The British
funeral-services industry faced a backlog of hundreds of corpses as undertakers, unable to obtain credit, refused to perform burials for the poor until the government guarantees reimbursements.
| Source:
The Daily Mail
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| December 19, 2000 | - Timothy McVeigh, who was sentenced to die in 1997 for blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and killing 168 people in Oklahoma City, asked to be put to death within the next four months.
| |
| December 5, 2000 | - The terms of the amnesty he negotiated upon his abdication included murder but not kidnapping, and the bodies of nineteen people who were abducted by the “Caravan of death,” a helicopter-borne death squad led by one of Pinochet's close aides, were never found, world-historical ruthlessness giving rise to world-historical irony—which then devolved into farce when an appeals court suspended the arrest order.
| |
| December 5, 2000 | - Holland legalized the killing of terminally ill patients by doctors; a provision that would have allowed children to choose death was withdrawn.
| |
| November 14, 2000 | - One hundred and seventy skiers died in a cable car accident near Salzburg, Austria; some were burned to death, others choked on the smoke.
| |
| November 14, 2000 | - Jodie and Mary, a pair of Siamese twins in Britain, were separated pursuant to a court order which concluded that Mary, being “incapable of independent existence,” was “designated for death.” Jodie was doing fine; doctors said they might put a mirror next to her to lessen the loss of her sister. Mary “sadly died,” the hospital said, “despite all the best efforts of the medical team.” It was unclear what the team hoped to accomplish; she had no heart, no lungs.
| |
| November 7, 2000 | - The Mexican government was upset about a Mexican citizen on death row whom Texas failed to notify of his right under the Vienna Convention to contact his government's embassy; the Mexican government did not find out about his arrest until a year after he was condemned.
| |
| October 31, 2000 | - “Economy-class syndrome” was blamed for the death of a British woman who had just made a twenty-hour flight to London from Australia; the syndrome, more properly known as deep-vein thrombosis, occurs when a long, cramped period of inactivity leads to a blood clot.
| |
| October 31, 2000 | - A hog that was allowed to travel in the cabin of a six-hour US Airways flight ran squealing up and down the aisle and tried to break into the cockpit; passengers did not beat it to death.
| |
| October 17, 2000 | -
Burma's military junta declared that caffeine was a narcotic; under Burmese law, narcotics users can be put to death.
| |
| September 19, 2000 | - A Southwest Airlines passenger was beaten to death by other passengers on a flight from Phoenix to Salt Lake City after he tried to attack the flight crew.
| |
| September 12, 2000 | - Five teenagers were arrested for beating a pizza delivery man to death for a free meal; the boys left $600 in their victim's pocket.
| |
| September 12, 2000 | - President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was served with a lawsuit while standing outside a church in Harlem; the lawsuit, which was filed in a Manhattan federal district court, seeks damages for the death of the plaintiff's husband, who was killed by members of Mugabe's party.
| |
| September 12, 2000 | - Several UN workers were beaten to death in West Timor; the next day, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said “I think now the situation is very good there. That is according to the full report I got this morning.”
| |
| September 12, 2000 | - Carlos Castaño, the head of Colombia's rightist paramilitary death squads, released an open letter in which he said that “The crime of anti-subversion or of pro-capitalism cannot exist in a civilized universe.”
| |
| September 5, 2000 | - Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, warned of “the Vietnamization of the entire Amazon region.” Vietnam returned the body of a Canadian woman, minus one ear, after she was put to death for drug trafficking.
| |
| August 29, 2000 | - Three men beat a Gypsy woman, a mother of eight, to death in Slovakia.
| |
| August 29, 2000 | - Czech President Vaclav Havel said that multinational corporations “should listen more to the voices of the people.” A woman was boiled to death in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park.
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