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Janet Horne (died 1727) was the last person to be executed legally for witchcraft in the British Isles. [1] Horne and her daughter were arrested in Dornoch in Sutherland and imprisoned on the accusations of her neighbours. Horne was showing signs of senility, and her daughter had a deformity of her hands and feet.
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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was an American lawyer and public official who served as the first female and 78th United States attorney general. Reno, a member of the Democratic Party , held the position from 1993 to 2001, making her the second-longest serving attorney general, behind only William Wirt .
Erskine was arrested on 28 July 1986 at a social security office. Police were then able to match his palm print to one left at one of the murder scenes, and he was identified in a police lineup by 74-year-old Fred Prentice, who claimed Erskine tried to strangle him in his bed a month before police apprehended him.
Janet Reno, the first woman U.S. attorney general who served eight tumultuous years with President Bill Clinton, has died at 78, according to media reports. Janet Reno, first U.S. woman attorney ...
Born: Janet Napolitano, American politician, lawyer and university administrator, 21st Governor of Arizona, 3rd United States Secretary of Homeland Security; in New York City [252] Died: Willard C. Brinton, 76, American consulting engineer, died of a heart attack. [253] John P. Frey, 86, American labor leader [254] [255]