How many prisoners in the United States are on death row?
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, the year 1987 saw 1,781 prisoners on death row.
Between 1930 and 1980, 3,862 persons were executed in the United States.
Black-Bag Job. An agent’s work, from bribery to breaking and entering. Demote Maximally. To purge an organization by killing. The Firm. The British Secret Service. The Company. The CIA. Measles. A murder handled so deftly that death appears to be accidental or from natural causes. Legend. An agent’s fake biography, used as a cover. Ladies….
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…
Kim Philby was recruited by the Russians in the early 1930s. He entered the British Secret Service in 1939 and remained a double agent until 1962, when he escaped to the Soviet Union. His orders, he said, were to penetrate British Intelligence and “it did not matter how long I took to do the job.”…
Philadelphia-born John T. Noland (1896-1931) earned it early in his career. As a teenager, he joined a gang called the Hudson Dusters, which stole packages from the backs of trucks. For his ability to dodge police in his efforts, he was nicknamed Legs. Diamond was one of his chosen surnames.
An air dance is an execution by hanging. Other slang terms for hanging: air jig, air polka, and air rumba.
The White Hand Society was a community group sponsored by Italian-American business leaders. It was organized in 1907 to oppose the work of the Black Hand and developed its own police force but sustained itself for only five years.