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Kelly Gissendaner. Kelly Renée Gissendaner ( née Brookshire; March 8, 1968 – September 30, 2015) was an American woman who was executed by the U.S. state of Georgia. Gissendaner had been convicted of orchestrating the murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner (December 14, 1966 – February 7, 1997). [1] [2] At the time of the murder ...
12 years in prison (2016) Cooper Harris was a 22-month-old toddler who died of hyperthermia on June 18, 2014, in Vinings, Georgia. His father, Justin Ross Harris ("Ross"), had left him strapped in the rear-facing car seat of his SUV, where the toddler remained for approximately seven hours. [ 1] Ross was arrested and charged with his son's ...
The Marburg Files are the main subject and focus of the episode "Vergangenheit" ("Past") of the Netflix television series The Crown, [ 16] which depicts Queen Elizabeth II 's initial review of the documents. The episode's director Philippa Lowthorpe has stated that replicas of genuine files were used during filming. [ 11]
Detroit. 1967-07-25/26. 3. Three civilians shot and killed by police at the Algiers Hotel during the 1967 Detroit riot, dramatized in the 2017 film Detroit. Robison family murders. Good Hart. 1968-06-25. 6. Mass murder of family from suburban Detroit while vacationing at cottage.
He was sentenced to life without parole. He was released in 2017 and exonerated in 2018 after the University of Michigan's innocence project took up his case, declaring him the longest-serving innocent man in the United States. [70] although his record has since been broken. [71] In prison Phillips taught himself to paint watercolors.
May 11, 1945 (Friday) USS Bunker Hill hit by two kamikazes. While supporting the Battle of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was badly damaged by Japanese kamikaze attacks and suffered about 600 casualties. The Battle of West Henan–North Hubei ended in tactical stalemate but a Japanese operational victory.
On 3 May 1945, the NDH leadership abolished racial laws [10] [11] and intended to seek Western support in fighting Communism. On 6 May they sent a request for collaboration with the Allies, which was rejected. The Yugoslav Partisans took control of Zagreb, the capital of NDH, on 8 May. [12]
Life without parole. On March 20, 2017, Timothy Caughman, a black 66-year-old man, was collecting cans for recycling in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City when James Harris Jackson, a white 28-year-old man, approached him and stabbed him multiple times with a sword. Caughman later died of his injuries.