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Joseph Green Brown. Florida. Convicted 1974. He was re-arrested in 2012 and charged with the murder of his wife in North Carolina, for which he was convicted on September 12, 2013. [115] [116] Perry Cobb and Darby J. Tillis. Illinois. Convicted 1979.
For 2016, the NHTSA reported 37,461 people killed in 34,436 fatal motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day. [6] In 2022, there were 42,795 total motor vehicle fatalities. [ 7 ]
In 2014, 76% of all people trafficked in India were women and girls. [31] Children make up roughly 40% of prostitutes. [3] It is estimated that over 2 million women and children are trafficked for sex into the red-light districts in India. [5] The Indian Government estimates that girls make up the majority of children in sex trafficking. [5]
The People's Republic of China puts its war dead at 20 million, [10] while the Japanese government puts its casualties due to the war at 3.1 million. [11] An estimated 7–10 million people died in the Dutch , British , French and US colonies in South and Southeast Asia , mostly from war-related famine.
In the United States, the relationship between race and crime has been a topic of public controversy and scholarly debate for more than a century. [1] Crime rates vary significantly between racial groups; however, academic research indicates that the over-representation of some racial minorities in the criminal justice system can in part be explained by socioeconomic factors, [2] [3] such as ...
The protests have been met with widespread repression, leading to about 15,000 people being arrested. [322] Violations of human rights in Russia have been increasingly reported by leading democracy and human rights groups.
From 1787 to 1868, enslaved African Americans were counted in the U.S. census under the Three-fifths Compromise.The compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population.
The proportion of subprime ARM loans made to people with credit scores high enough to qualify for conventional mortgages with better terms increased from 41% in 2000 to 61% by 2006. In addition, mortgage brokers in some cases received incentives from lenders to offer subprime ARMs even to those with credit ratings that merited a conforming (i.e ...