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Anti-abortion fanatic Paul Jennings Hill, 49, gives a press conference just one day before his execution. Hill, then a minister, was convicted of the murders of abortion provider John Britton and his bodyguard, James Herman Barrett Jr. (Florida State Prison, 2003) .

My 3x Great Grandfather, Joseph Axford (15), 1873, Wandsworth Prison, London. Arrested and given 2 weeks hard labour for stealing a blanket early January.

After the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in 1945, roughly 900 men went into the water. Only 316 survived. The Navy court-martialed the captain. A 12-year-old kid’s school project got him exonerated 55 years later.

(1906 x 1202) Andrea Doria (C 553) helicopter cruiser of the Italian Navy, commissioned in 1964 to specialize in anti-submarine warfare (ASW).

A Palestinian woman points to the bloodstain of British documentary filmmaker James Miller, as his helmet and bulletproof vest lie at the scene where he was fatally shot in the neck by an Israeli sniper while Miller was filming his documentary “Death in Gaza” for HBO. Rafah , May 2003