The Boy Nevada Killed Floyd Loveless And The Juvenile Capital Punishment Debate

Author : Janice Oberding
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439659441

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The Boy Nevada Killed: Floyd Loveless and the Juvenile Capital Punishment Debate by Janice Oberding Pdf

At seventeen, Floyd Burton Loveless became the youngest person ever executed by the state of Nevada. What led him to that end was just as tragic. Following a series of family catastrophes, Loveless was a petty thief by age twelve and a confessed rapist at fifteen. Sentenced to seven years at an Indiana state boys" reformatory, he escaped after a month in custody. The ruthless teen robbed his way to Carlin, Nevada, where he shot and killed a constable who spotted the stolen car he was driving and confronted him. After a protracted legal battle, Loveless died in the gas chamber on September 29, 1944. Author Janice Oberding recounts the sordid details that sparked national controversy over the constitutionality of juvenile capital punishment.

Author : Chuei Mareng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Arranged marriage
ISBN : 1926780205

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Loveless Marriage Among the Dinkas by Chuei Mareng Pdf

Loveless Marriage Among the Dinkas explores the practicality of the arranged marriages and forced marriages within the Dinka communities of Southern Sudan. The book focuses on the question of human beings' free will and free choices. Loveless Marriage Among the Dinkas is divided into three parts to give a clear explanation of the arranged marriages and forced marriages within the Dinka communities. Part I of the book provides a brief history of the Dinka; while part II examines the genesis of marriages; and part III explores the human rights issues that are surrounding the arranged marriages and forced marriages within the Dinka communities.

Author : Carine McCandless
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062325167

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The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless Pdf

A New York Times Bestseller "The Wild Truth is an important book on two fronts: It sets the record straight about a story that has touched thousands of readers, and it opens up a conversation about hideous domestic violence hidden behind a mask of prosperity and propriety."–NPR.org The spellbinding story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just New York Times bestselling author Jon Krakauer, but also the rest of the nation. Krakauer's book,Into the Wild, became an international bestseller, translated into thirty-one languages, and Sean Penn's inspirational film by the same name further skyrocketed Chris McCandless to global fame. But the real story of Chris’s life and his journey has not yet been told - until now. The missing pieces are finally revealed in The Wild Truth, written by Carine McCandless, Chris's beloved and trusted sister. Featured in both the book and film, Carine has wrestled for more than twenty years with the legacy of her brother's journey to self-discovery, and now tells her own story while filling in the blanks of his. Carine was Chris's best friend, the person with whom he had the closest bond, and who witnessed firsthand the dysfunctional and violent family dynamic that made Chris willing to embrace the harsh wilderness of Alaska. Growing up in the same troubled household, Carine speaks candidly about the deeper reality of life in the McCandless family. In the many years since the tragedy of Chris's death, Carine has searched for some kind of redemption. In this touching and deeply personal memoir, she reveals how she has learned that real redemption can only come from speaking the truth.

Author : Leigh Straw
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760990565

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The Petticoat Parade by Leigh Straw Pdf

Josie de Bray, aka Madam Monnier, aka Marie Louise Monnier, was a brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from WWI up to the 1940s. A returned soldier tried to shoot her dead in her brothel in 1917 and her 'bungalow' was at the centre of underworld violence in the 1920s. She returned to France before WWII to visit family and was bombed repeatedly out of homes there and captured by the Germans. She was a prisoner of war and one story has her in a concentration camp. She survived, returned to Perth in 1947, and took up business again in Roe Street, having made a fortune from the rent collected from her brothels while she was a prisoner of war, up until her death in 1953.

Author : Robert Jungk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Atomic bomb victims
ISBN : OCLC:1152609377

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Children of the Ashes by Robert Jungk Pdf

Author : Peter Dover
Publisher : Richard Poche
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9798224520534

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The Murder of Roseann Quinn by Peter Dover Pdf

When does an enjoyment of varied interests become a double life? That is a question pertinent to the tragic and strange tale of Roseann Quinn. Many will be familiar with this name, even though her death dates back three and a half decades. That is because the case of Roseann Quinn is the one behind the well known 1977 film, 'Looking for Mr Goodbar', which starred Diane Keaton. It is also the inspiration for Judith Rossner's slightly less well known but still best selling novel of the same name, and the account by the New York Times journalist, Lacey Fosburgh (called 'Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder.') Sometimes, it can be tricky to understand why some crimes make their way to the eye of popular culture and other, equally tragic, events fail to do so. Although, of course, every death is a tragedy for someone. But in the case of Roseann, the answer is clear to see.

Author : Pete Dove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1084198444

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The Disappearance of Bambi Woods by Pete Dove Pdf

A collection of True Crime in the porn industrySuch scripts as existed for sleazy flicks such as Debbie Does Dallas were threadbare. Often, they consisted of little more than a hint of dialogue to be improvised in whatever location had been hi-jacked for filming - this was still a time when obscenity laws could see an entire cast and crew apprehended, arrested and tried for acts committed in the face of public decency. It was best not to advertise your whereabouts.For some of the industry's actors and actresses performance was a means to an end. For others, an unfortunate hole into which they fell, headfirst and out of full control. Debbie, the eponymous character of the film, was played by an attractive young star in the making called Bambi Woods. In fact, she wasn't called Bambi Woods; anybody aware of this lady's real name refuses to reveal it and while there is much speculation online, the validity of any claim is open to considerable question.For the purposes of this piece, the name Bambi Woods will need to suffice. Her real name may have been, or maybe still is, Debra DeSanto. Equally it might be Barbara Woodson. The uncertainty around the words in this article so far can be excused. Because, in the mid-1980s, it may have been the case that Bambi died, in lurid circumstances, in a drug and sex fueled orgy of excess. Or, perhaps she did not. Although widely reported, her death has never been confirmed. Certainly, plenty of those who claim to know the real person behind the character are confident that she is still alive.

Author : John Rosengren
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101614921

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Hank Greenberg by John Rosengren Pdf

Baseball during the Great Depression of the 1930s galvanized communities and provided a struggling country with heroes. Jewish player Hank Greenberg gave the people of Detroit—and America—a reason to be proud. But America was facing more than economic hardship. Hitler’s agenda heightened the persecution of Jews abroad while anti-Semitism intensified political and social tensions in the U.S. The six-foot-four-inch Greenberg, the nation’s most prominent Jew, became not only an iconic ball player, but also an important and sometimes controversial symbol of Jewish identity and the American immigrant experience. Throughout his twelve-year baseball career and four years of military service, he heard cheers wherever he went along with anti-Semitic taunts. The abuse drove him to legendary feats that put him in the company of the greatest sluggers of the day, including Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Lou Gehrig. Hank’s iconic status made his personal dilemmas with religion versus team and ambition versus duty national debates. Hank Greenberg is an intimate account of his life—a story of integrity and triumph over adversity and a portrait of one of the greatest baseball players and most important Jews of the twentieth century. INCLUDES PHOTOS

Author : Harvey W. Rowe,David K. Dodd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0983567034

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Furnace Murder by Harvey W. Rowe,David K. Dodd Pdf

A son of a local sheriff provides an insider's view of small town life and crime. Also probes the tragic life of the victim during the decades leading up to her brutal end in 1948. It is a tale of wealth and prominence, and the curse of death.

Author : Lee Server
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438109121

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Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers by Lee Server Pdf

Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781408102572

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Anagram Solver by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf

Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.

Author : Lucian Lamar Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : American literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433082545942

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Reminiscences of Famous Georgians by Lucian Lamar Knight Pdf

Author : Mark T. Conard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780813123776

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The Philosophy of Film Noir by Mark T. Conard Pdf

Explores philosophical themes and ideas inherent in classic noir and neo-noir films, establishing connections to diverse thinkers ranging from Camus to the Frankfurt School. The authors, each focusing on a different aspect of the genre, explores the philosophical underpinnings of classic films.

Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0816055416

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The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories by Michael Newton Pdf

More than 500 alphabetically-arranged entries provide information regarding historical events, organizations, and people associated with unsolved mysteries or covert actions.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1018977066

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In The Court of Claims by Anonymous Pdf

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