A 20-year-old college student had killed a woman at his Ladera Ranch home and had set out on a killing spree that stretched through the heart of Orange County. He had killed a businessman and stole his BMW. A few minutes later, he killed a plumber and took a work truck. He shot randomly at the morning commuters on the 55 Freeway, which had hit at least three cars. The authorities were surprised at the "senseless violence," which had spanned about 25 miles.
After a two day trial the Michigan jury found Kevorkian guilty to second-degree murder and was charged with 10 to 25 years in prison. Kevorkian was later released from prison and died June, 3 2011 at the age of 83. Should we allow people to end their lives and “die with dignity?” I believe that the United States should legalize assisted
Morgan Inc. at 23 Wall Street, killing 38 and injuring 300 people.Built in 1914, 23 Wall Street was known as the "House of Morgan" and for decades the bank's headquarters was the most important address in American finance. At noon, on September 16, 1920, a bomb exploded in front of the bank, killing 38 and injuring 300. Shortly before the bomb went off a warning note was placed in a mailbox at the corner of Cedar Street and Broadway. While theories abound about who was behind the Wall Street bombing and why they did it, after twenty years investigating the matter, the FBI rendered the file inactive in 1940 without ever finding the
Alessandra Battalia James Holmes: The Insanity Plea Minutes into a special midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” on July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, James Holmes—encased in armor, his hair tinted orange, a gas mask obscuring his face—stepped through the emergency exit of a sold-out movie theater and opened fire. By the time it was over, there were twelve dead and 58 wounded. The ferocity of the attack, its setting, its sheer magnitude — more people were killed and injured in the shooting than in any in the country’s history — shocked even a nation largely inured to random outbursts of violence. But Mr. Holmes, 24, who was arrested outside the theater and been charged for the shootings, has remained an enigma, his life and his motives cloaked by two court orders that have imposed a virtual blackout on information in the case and by the silence of the University of Colorado, Denver, where Mr. Holmes attended until June as a graduate student in neuroscience. His abnormal behavior and clear signs of mental disturbance display a tragic example of violence caused by pathology.
On December 18, 1997, Farley was found dead, at the age of 33, in his apartment in the John Hancock Center[->6] in Chicago. An autopsy later revealed that Farley had died of a drug overdose of cocaine and morphine early that morning. Chris Farley's death is often compared to the death of his SNL idol John Belushi[->7], who also died at age 33 of an accidental drug overdose[->8] consisting of cocaine and heroin. On August 26, 2005, Farley was posthumously awarded the 2,289th star on the Hollywood Walk of
The forty passengers and crew who died after overpowering the terrorists in order to divert the plane from its intended target, the U.S. capitol in Washington, are being commemorated with the Flight 93 memorial.“Ten years later, the gaping hole left in lower Manhattan by the deadliest foreign attack on the United Sates in history remains largely unfilled. But a new skyscraper is nearly two-thirds complete at ground zero to replace the iconic twin towers that stood there for 30 years until the terrifying morning of September 11, 2002.” (Jost). Surrounded by bronze parapets with the incised names of 2,983 names consist of persons killed at the WTC in New York, the Pentagon in Northern Virginia, and a field in rural Pennsylvania. “The Pentagon memorial uses cantilevered metal benches to commemorate the 184 people killed in the third of the crashes on 9/11. The benches are organized in lines based on the victims ages-from the youngest, age 3, to the oldest, age 71.” (Jost).
On May 23, 2011 authorities put an end for the search of a local arson in the city of Irvine, California. Irvine police took into custody a woman suspected of starting a chain of fires on residential and school property over the last 10 months. Detectives took a 38 old woman by the name of Jana Marie Spires, into custody just after 8 a.m. that morning. At the time of the arrest, the suspect was found near Springbook Elementary School in Irvine. Nearby, the elementary school laid a stack of empty pizza boxes, which had been set fire within inches of the school administration building.
When Jeffrey Dahmer was 18, he made his first kill, hitchhiker Steve Hicks. He took him home to his parents' house, where they drank beer and had sex. When Hicks went to leave, Dahmer killed him with a blow to the head from a barbell. He dismembered the corpse of his first victim, packed the body parts in plastic bags, and buried them in the woods behind his parents' house. It would be another nine years before he encountered his second victim.
White PC Keith Blakelock is hacked to death in a racist murder by men with knives and machetes. 1998: A group of 100 youths throw bottles, cans and stones at police as the five suspects of the murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence arrive at the inquiry. 2005: ‘Black British’ and ‘black Asians’ riot for two consecutive nights, with both groups committing a string of violent crimes against each other, including two murders. 2011: The race war has entered its most dangerous phase yet with gangs attacking hospitals and looting in broad daylight in scenes that look more like a US disaster zone every day. According to the IPCC Report of the investigation into them, there had never been such an event in English memory.
The Ban on Assault Weapons In January 1989, a man named Patrick Purdy armed with an AK-47 fired over 100 rounds into a schoolyard in Stockton, California. He killed five children and wounded thirty others before turning the gun on himself. This is only one horrible shooting among countless others involving so called assault weapons. These acts of violence shocked people into focusing on gun laws to control crimes involving guns. September 13, 1994 congress passes the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.