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A final cigarette... then the hangman's noose: Three men put to death in Kuwaiti car park in country's first execution in six years Blindfolded, his hands bound, a condemned prisoner puffs desperately on a final cigarette. Just a few minutes later he and two others are led up a short flight of stairs, nooses are placed around their necks before a trapdoor opens beneath their feet. This is justice Kuwait-style... read story and watch the video  The Gulf-Arab state hanged three convicted murderers today, the first executions to take place there since 2007, state news agency KUNA reported. Israel executed precise airstrikes on Gaza's public library, causing extensive damage and the loss of thousands of historical documents and books housed in the facility. See photos here Kuwait, which has a population of around three and a half million people, operates a judicial system which is a mixture of Islamic Sharia law, English common law, and the Ottoman civil code. The state carri...

Two American freedmen sit outside of a Japanese concentration camp after its liberation, 1945  Lee Rogers and John Todd are sitting outside a liberated concentration camp in the Philippines.  Despite the post-war stereotypes, the Japanese killed millions of people; the number is estimated at 3-10 million. Many of these people died in the Japanese concentration camps throughout the Pacific areas, which were just as horrific as the ones in central Europe.  Photographer: Carl Mydans  Source: CPI EUROPE Post suggests American WW2 prisoners were British soldiers 6 APRIL 2021 WHAT WAS CLAIMED A photo of two emaciated men strongly implies they were British soldiers. OUR VERDICT This is a famous photograph of two American civilians after the liberation of a Japanese POW camp in 1945. A black and white photo of two emaciated men has been circulating in a post on Facebook that has been shared 22,000 times. The post strongly implies they were British soldiers. This is not true....

Brother and sister, who were in a relationship, were high on drugs and engaging in indcent activity behind elementary school before he beat her to death because “she told him to hit her, but he did not want to!” According to the court documents, the 27-year-old defendant, later identified as Cody, told prosecutors that he beat his 18-year-old sister to death behind a local elementary school. Prosecutors said the defendant and his sister, Heather, were reportedly in a inc3stuous relationship. During an interview with investigators, the defendant allegedly admitted to in-est and murder. According to the court documents, family members were reportedly aware that the relationship had carried on for years. The defendant also said that he and his sister were on drugs and engaging in se-ual activity in a park when the victim allegedly told him to hit her, but he did not want to. During an interview with investigators, the defendant also said that he repeatedly beat his sister during se-ual ac...

Chukwudi Akasike There was panic in Eliozu axis of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Saturday, when the body of an eight-year-old girl, Victory Chikamso, who was abducted, was recovered with her tongue, breasts, vagina and eyes removed. The suspected ritualist, Ifeanyi Dike, was also arrested by the operatives of State Police Command attached to Okporo Police Station. It was gathered that the victim, who was a resident of Messiah Street, Eliozu was abducted on Friday by Dike, who also lived on the same  SUNDAY PUNCH  also learnt that the girl was defiled before she was killed, while her vital organs were removed and put in a polythene bag by the suspect. The state police command said in a statement by its spokesperson, Mr. Nnamdi Omoni, that the suspect was trying to dispose the mutilated body of the victim when he was apprehended by a local vigilante. The statement read, “Today, at about 0130hrs, men of the Okporo Police Station arrested one Ifeanyi Chukwu Maxwell Dike (male, 2...

John Barrow saw Japanese women at Saipan throw babies off cliff then jump themselves by  DON MOORE John Henry Barrow II of Royal Palm Retirement Centre in Port Charlotte, Fla. served aboard a destroyer and a sub chaser in the Pacific during World War II. He took part in some of the major battles—Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa to name three. Saipan is the one the 90-year-old former local sailor remembers best. “At Saipan Adm. Nimitz ordered our sub chasers close to shore. We were to fire at Japanese position and when they fired back at us it was our job to report their locations,” Barrow said. “Then we’d knock out the enemy with the 16-inch guns from our battleships off shore. “We could see the shells from our big guns coming right over us and hit the enemy’s positions. We could watch the whole side of a hill come apart when one of our 16-inch shells hit it. “Being that close to shore we could see those Japanese civilian ladies throw their children off the nearby cliffs and then jump ...