This seems to be an interesting job opportunity. TheEye applied (this is true), almost two decades ago, for a vacancy as an executioner in the Caribbean (lots of sun, short hours, rum). Not sure Rhodesia is quite so appealing as a destination though. A backlog of prisoners waiting for execution […]

The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of assisting in the murder of 27,900 Jews in a Nazi concentration camp, will begin on November 30 in Munich, the court announced today (Thursday). This was despite hundreds of film directors and art critics saying that it should all be forgotten about because it happened […]

….the D.C. Sniper? Another in an occasional Where Are They Now series. Last featuring the shoe-thrower, this time we find out that the D.C. (or Beltway) Sniper is imminently due to head downstairs for an eternity of heat and pitchforks. A judge in Richmond, Virginia, has set a Nov. 10 […]

…or sometimes a hundred thousand words The excellent Lawson Narse says it all with this and crossposted at the G.O.T. but doubtless it will be elsewhere before long.

A man who went on a 1992 Christmas holiday killing spree that left six people dead, including an 18-year-old mother gunned down at a pay phone, was executed last Tuesday, the state’s second execution in two weeks and the 1,000th lethal injection in the U.S. since the death penalty was […]