
Source: AlterNet Perhaps you’ve heard of the atrocious piece of legislation nicknamed the “Kill the Gays” bill? As The Advocate reports, the conservative-backed Ugandan bill would punish citizens of the country with up to 7 years in prison for the…
Source: AlterNet Perhaps you’ve heard of the atrocious piece of legislation nicknamed the “Kill the Gays” bill? As The Advocate reports, the conservative-backed Ugandan bill would punish citizens of the country with up to 7 years in prison for the…
Giuseppe Zangara shoots Anton Cermak, the mayor of Chicago, in Miami, Florida. Zangara’s shots missed President-elect Franklin Roosevelt, who was with Cermak at the time. Cermak was seriously wounded and died on March 6. Immediately after Mayor Cermak died from…
The first execution by lethal gas in American history is carried out in Carson City, Nevada. The executed man was Tong Lee, a member of a Chinese gang who was convicted of murdering a rival gang member. Lethal gas was…
Source: The Huffington Post By: Mark Osler, Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas A troubled loner with a gun decided to kill his Democratic Congresswoman outside a Tucson grocery store, and now six people are dead. As a former…
On this day in 2000, seven convicts break out of a maximum-security prison in South Texas, setting off a massive six-week manhunt. The escapees, dubbed the “Texas Seven” by the media, overpowered civilian employees and prison guards in the maintenance…