It appears that Bird caught his victims off guard and executed them. “He entered his brothers farm in Frizlington, Cumbria, where David was half dressed and in bed... including two shots that were fired into the victims head...” “Five hours later Bird was laying in wait for his second victim...He executed his victim with two .22 shots to the head.” where as the third and subsequent killings were done by getting the victims attention and shooting them once in the face or other parts of the body, in some cases using the butt of his gun to cause facial damage. 4)Did Birds MO remain consistent over the course of the shootings? Why? No, according to reports Birds MO changed over the course of the shootings going from executing his first two victims, single shot gun blast to the face in other victims and random shots causing bodily damage for example “Mr Kennedy suffered such severe injuries that his lower arm was later amputated.” and “Next, Bird stopped alongside Fiona Moretta, who leaned into his passenger window, believing he was going to ask her for directions.
Over 3,000 men were killed - mostly rebels. Warwick tried most of the leaders the next day and hanged on the city gallows. Up to 300 men were executed. Nine of them were hanged, drawn and quartered in a cruel ceremony at the Tree of Reformation. Robert Kett and his brother William were given special punishment.
When Forscyth's troops surrounded Black Coyote to disarm the man, Black Coyote's gun fired off and caused the troops to fire their weapons at other Indians, thus triggering the massacre. The massacre lasted for less than an hour, but the death toll was high, with 150 Lakota dead and 50 wounded. The siege of Wounded Knee occurred over 80 years later in the year 1973. Before the siege started, members of the Lakota tribe, whose ancestors were involved in the Wounded Knee massacre, and other tribes decided to meet in order to discuss issues such as high unemployment rates and the policies of the Federal Government concerning the tribes. This meeting formed the American Indian Movement, or AIM.
Glenn Summerford was a preacher at The Church of Jesus with Signs Following, and he was “convicted and sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison for attempting to kill his wife with rattlesnakes” (Covington page 1). Dennis Covington drove down to get the scoop on the trial and left with what he needed and more. During Dennis Covington’s stay in Scottsboro, he stayed for a church service in Glenn
All five members of the family were killed in their sleep. They then went on to murder other white families and gather more slaves. As the murders continued and the slave numbers in the revolt grew to over fifty, news quickly spread and the slaves were pursued. Turned hid in a hole he dug under a pile of fence rails for six weeks before being two black men and their dog happened upon him. Knowing the men would give away his location, Turner found somewhere new to hide but was soon discovered by Benjamin Phipps.
Jondavid Longo Professor Tom Copeland Politics in Global Terrorism Book Review: Rebel Hearts 4/12/09 On Dec. 13, 1867, three Fenian militants, engaging in an action in what Kevin Toolis calls "the longest war the world has ever known," killed six people, including a 7-year-old girl, when they set off a bomb outside Clerkenwell Prison in London. Nearly 130 years later, the Fenians' successor organization, the Irish Republican Army, was still at it, placing bombs in suburban trash cans, killing children and adults who just happened to be nearby. The struggle continues. While I read this, I was pulled into the world of IRA militants. I felt frustrated with their cause as if it were my own.
Robert William "Willie" Pickton (born October 26, 1949)[2] of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada is a former pig farmer[3] and serial killer convicted of the second-degree murders of six women. [4][5] He is also charged in the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them prostitutes and drug users from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In December 2007 he was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years —the longest sentence available under Canadian law for murder. During the trial's first day of jury evidence, January 22, 2007, the Crown stated he confessed to forty-nine murders to an undercover police officer posing as a cellmate. The Crown reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even 50, and that he was caught because he was "sloppy".
After 2 years in 1831 Turner was said to have been visited by god again and told to “slay thy enemies with their own weapons” (Gray, p.11). In 1831 Turner lead a slave insurrection in south Hampton, Virginia. For thirty-six hours on August 21-22, Turner and about 65 other escaped slaves, went on a murderous spree killing white slave owners, their wives, children and burning their houses down. The exact number of whites killed remains unsubstantiated. Turner and his followers were all captured and killed, Turner being the last.
Just some of thoughts the people of Liverpool must of had in 1993 when youngsters, Robert Thomson and Jon Venables abducted toddler James Bulger from a shopping centre in Merseyside and beat him to death on a railway line. After serving eight years for the murder of two year-old, James Bulger, one of his killers, now Jon Venables, was given a new identity to help prevent possible revenge attacks towards him. But now he will be given another new identity after being recalled to prison. The identity will cost the taxpayer £250,000 to ensure he has a national insurance number and passport and £1 million per year for probation officers to pay close supervision on his release. Any taxpayer in the right mind would be up in arms over this.
On April 20, 199 in a suburban town called Littleton, Colorado; one high school was about to have one of the most tragic and deadly days in US history. Columbine High School was in the forefront of this tragedy. Two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, opened fire on their fellow classmates and teacher. These two students cut the lives short of thirteen students and one teacher. After ten years of research Dave Cullen wrote the true story of Columbine.