Who shoplifts more often, men or women?
For this crime of shoplifting, women outnumber men by four or five to one.
It was “Son of Sam” killer David Richard Berkowitz (b. 1953) who was known as the 44-Caliber Killer. From July 1976 to August 1977 he killed six people and wounded seven others with a .44-caliber gun.
State chemists are the executioners who kill condemned prisoners by lethal injection. State electricians perform executions by means of the electric chair.
In Italian, Mafia means “beauty, excellence, bravery”. Cosa Nostra means “our thing.”
While hanging may have occurred earlier in U.S. history, the practice of lynching was probably started by Colonel William Lynch of Virginia in the 1780s. Lynch organized a vigilante band aimed at ridding Pittsylvania County of its bad element. An 1836 editorial by Edgar Allan Poe discusses Lynch’s career.
The Black Hand was the name for groups of extortionists who preyed upon Italian immigrants in the United States from about 1890 to 1920. It was active in cities such as Chicago, Kansas City, New Orleans, and New York. The Mafia, an older and more complex criminal organization, originated in Sicily in the nineteenth and…
In 1844, Jonathan Walker had the initials SS branded into the palm of his right hand. He had been convicted of slave stealing, helping slaves escape to the Bahamas. Branding had been used officially as punishment for crimes in America since the seventeenth century.