Major Crimes and True Crime

Chinese couple executed after throwing their two toddlers off 15th-floor balcony The children's father was captured screaming after the incident Zhang Bo and his girlfriend Ye Chengchen have both been executed after two children were pushed to their deaths off a 15th-floor balcony in southwest China's Chongqing. A Chinese couple has been executed after they threw their two toddlers to their deaths off a 15th-floor balcony. The father, Zhang Bo, murdered his kids after his new girlfriend, Ye Chengchen, told him she saw them as a "burden on their future together." The couple were sentenced to death in 2021 over the fatal falls in 2020 of two children from the 15th floor of a residential tower in southwest China's Chongqing. Zhang had begun an affair with Ye, who was initially unaware he was married and had children. She then urged Zhang to kill his two children, whom she "regarded as obstacles" to their getting married and a "burden on their future li...

"Female prisoners who are virgins must be rap£d before execution, to prevent them from entering heaven." In Iran, they rap£d female prisoners they believed to be virgins before they killed them so that they would not be allowed into "Heaven' as part of their punishment. In Iran, Girls "Married" Before Being Executed  "In the lslamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a "wedding" ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard - essentially raped by her "husband." "I regret that, even though the marriages were legal" he said. "Because" he went on, "I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their 'wedding' night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills...

Boy of 17 cries and begs for forgiveness before being publicly hanged for killing 'Iran's strongest man' A teenage boy has been publicly hanged after being convicted of killing an athlete billed as 'Iran's strongest man'. Despite calls from Amnesty International for an 11th-hour stay of the 17-year-old's execution, Alireza Molla-Soltani was sent to the gallows at the scene of the crime in the city of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran... crowd of people had gathered to witness the hanging and security forces were present 'to ensure the sentence was carried out without any glitches,' the official IRNA news agency reported The boy was said to have cried and begged forgiveness before he was put to death. Molla-Soltani was sentenced to be hanged last month for stabbing the popular athlete, Ruhollah Dadashi, to death in mid-July. The teenager said at his trial he had killed only in self-defence after a driving dispute led him and two other youths...

William Kemmler, the first person to be executed by the electric chair (1860  At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electrocution in history is carried out against William Kemmler, who had been convicted of murdering his lover, Matilda Ziegler, with an axe. Electrocution as a humane means of execution was first suggested in 1881 by Dr. Albert Southwick, a dentist. Southwick had witnessed an elderly drunkard “painlessly” killed after touching the terminals of an electrical generator in Buffalo, New York. In the prevalent form of execution at the time—death by hanging—the condemned were known to hang by their broken necks for up to 30 minutes before succumbing to asphyxiation. In 1889, New York’s Electrical Execution Law, the first of its kind in the world, went into effect, and Edwin R. Davis, the Auburn Prison electrician, was commissioned to design an electric chair. Closely resembling the modern device, Davis’ chair was fitted with two electrodes, which we...

Ethel & Julius Rosenberg: The Only Spies Executed During the Cold War Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who spied on behalf of the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted, and executed by the federal government of the United States. They provided top-secret information about radar, sonar, and jet propulsion engines and were accused of transmitting valuable nuclear weapon designs; at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons. Other convicted co-conspirators were sentenced to prison, including Ethel's brother, David Greenglass (who had made a plea agreement), Harry Gold, and Morton Sobell. Klaus Fuchs, a German scientist working in Los Alamos, was convicted in the United Kingdom. For decades, the Rosenbergs' sons Michael and Robert Meeropol, and many other defenders maintained that Julius and Ethel were innocent of spying on their country and were victims of Cold War paranoia. After the fall of the Soviet Union, much inf...

The Botched Execution of The Woman Hacked 11 Times By Ax There was once a variety of botched executions. These ended up being incredibly ugly and, obviously, very painful. Almost none were more painful than that of Margaret Pole, who was sentenced to death by Henry VIII, the son of her cousin, and her execution was so botched that one account says she was hacked 11 times by an ax before she was finally beheaded. What was Margaret Pole’s crime to begin with? She was a Catholic, and her relatives spoke out against Henry VIII’s many divorces. This is the story of her life and her horrific death. Who was Margaret Pole? Margaret Pole was born of nobility and even royalty. She was the niece of two kings: Edward IV and Richard III. According to Hilary Mantel at the London Review of Books, she was also the daughter of a duke. Her father was George Plantagenet, the Duke of Clarence, which meant she was also diametrically opposed to Henry VIII and the Tudors after the War of the Roses...

12 Atrocities Committed By Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus is popularly known as the Italian who created the first landing party of Europe in the Americas. However, on the occasion of Columbus Day, we wish to share some of the most horrendous horrors committed by Columbus on America’s indigenous people, from rape to pillage. The following list speaks of Christopher Columbus and his atrocities. 1. Christopher Columbus caught hold of a Carib woman and gave her away to rape According to Bergreen, who quoted Michele de Cuneo, a participant in Columbus’ second expedition to the Americas, Christopher imprisoned a beautiful Carib woman on the boat. Even though she showed reluctance, he attempted to satisfy his desire. Additionally, he used to whip her with a rope and spoke about her “incredible” screams. He also mentions that Columbus thought she studied in a “school for whores”.  2. Almost 200 Indians died a painful death in the Atlantic ocean Columbus seized thousands of India...

Jews being executed by the Einsatzkommando during Operation Barbarossa, Lithuania, 1941 Operation Barbarossa began on 22 June 1941 when three million German troops entered Soviet territory. Following the Wehrmacht came the 3000 or so members of the four Einsatzgruppen units and at least nine thousand Order Police—about 18 battalions in all.2 As the Germans rapidly advanced into Soviet territory, large numbers of Red Army soldiers were, as Himmler had predicted, captured and sent to Nazi labor camps like Auschwitz I. Himmler had instructed Einsatzkommando Tilsit to carry out executions in response to sniper attacks against Germans. Between 24 and 27 June, Tilsit undertook three separate executions killing a total of 526 (mostly Jewish) Lithuanian men.3 These deaths signaled the start of the Holocaust in the Soviet interior.4 Himmler and Heydrich were apparently delighted with this early first effort. On 25 June, the leader of Einsatzgruppe A, Franz Stahlecker, entered the Lithu...