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'Chilling photo captures woman’s final moments before fatal lion attack Her face was torn apart': eyewitness recalls horrific lion park attack “The lioness had half of the passenger’s shoulder in her mouth. It was too late for anyone to save her,” engineer Ben Govender told Rapport newspaper as well as British publications, the Daily Mail and Mirror. Film editor Katherine Chappell, aged 29, was named as the victim of the attack that took place on Monday at the Lion Park outside Johannesburg. “Her face was torn apart, the right side of her chest was gone,” The Mirror quoted Govender as saying. The 38-year-old was travelling behind the vehicle driven by tour guide Pierre Potgieter in which Chappell was a passenger. Govender told Rapport that it was Potgieter who opened his window first, and then Chappell. He said initially it did not look as if this had bothered the lions. But then the lioness went up to the car and stood up on her hind legs. Govender snapped a photograph of this...

Biblical Verses used by Slave Masters to Justify Slavery Ephesians 6:5 "Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ." lent divine credence to the predicament of slaves and consigned them to perpetual slavery. Ephesians 6:9: And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him. Colossians 3:22: Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. Colossians 4:1: Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven. Titus 2:9: Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,ñ 1 Peter 2:18: Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, ...

American cult leader and criminal Charles Manson, being led away in handcuffs after being found guilty of first-degree murder in all seven of the Tate and LaBianca killings. Photograph taken in 1971. Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California, in the late 1960s. Some of the members committed a series of at least nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. In 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including the film actress Sharon Tate. The prosecution contended that, while Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overt act of conspiracy Before the murders, Manson had spent more than half of his life in correctional institutions. While gathering his cult following, Manson was a singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music indus...

The burnt body of gangster Irving Feinstein, who was set on fire by Murder Inc. killers Harry Strauss and Martin Goldstein and left exposed in a lot in New York City. 1938. Irving "Puggy" Feinstein (October 6, 1909 – September 5, 1939) was a Jewish-American mobster involved in illegal gambling and labor racketeering with Louis "Lepke" Buchalter.  Puggy had made the mistake of attempting to move into turf which was not his own. He was later murdered by several members of Murder, Inc. including Abe Reles, Martin Goldstein, and Harry Strauss... Read story  The murder occurred in the living room of Reles' own house on E. 91 St. in Brooklyn. While Harry Strauss was icepicking Puggy Feinstein to death, Puggy fought back and took a few bites out of Strauss's finger. Irate over the turn of events, Strauss and a few of his coworkers decided to make Feinstein's demise more painful and lengthened. They did so by a process which incorporates a rope being loope...

On April 6, 2015, Raul Ernesto Morales-Ramos, a 44-year-old citizen of El Salvador, died at Palmdale Regional Medical Center in Palmdale, California, of organ failure, with signs of widespread cancer. He had entered immigration custody four years earlier in March 2011. He was first detained at Theo Lacy Facility, operated by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, and then at Adelanto Detention Facility, operated by the private company Geo Group, both of which had contracts with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) to hold non-citizens for immigration purposes. An ICE investigation into the death of Morales-Ramos found that the medical care he received at both facilities failed to meet applicable standards of care in numerous ways. Two independent medical experts, analyzing ICE’s investigation for Human Rights Watch, agreed that he likely suffered from symptoms of cancer starting in 2013, but that the symptoms essentially went unaddressed for two years, until a month before h...

A Mongolian woman reaches out from the porthole of a crate in which she is imprisoned, 1913 A woman is held captive ina wooden crate and left to die of starvation in a remote desert in Mongolia, 1913. It was capital punishment for committing adultery. Stéphane Passet was touring Mongolia and taking pictures in 1913, when he came across the Mongolian woman in a box. n the photograph you can see two bowls on the ground for water and food. She was given food and water not on a daily basis but in a way to prolong her suffering. In order not to alter the balance of local laws and civilizations of Mongolia, or in.another words get himself in trouble, Stéphane Passet Left the woman in the box. This photo was taken in July 1913 by French photographer Stéphane Passet who was hired by Albert Kahn. Albert Kahn was a millionaire banker who pioneered color photography using the process invented by the Lumière brothers. During his trip through exotic countries, Albert Kahn and Stéphane Passet visite...

Killings and aftermath of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. In 1857, a Mormon Militia slaughtered 120 innocent people and try to frame it on a Native American Tribe "My father was killed by Indians. When they washed their faces they were white men."⁠ ⁠ On September 7, 1857, a group of Paiutes and Mormons disguised as Paiutes first attacked the Baker–Fancher wagon train in Utah. After days of battle, by September 11, the Mormons feared that the settlers had realized their identities. Two militiamen, their faces washed clean of paint and wearing plain clothes, approached the wagons with a white flag.⁠ ⁠ They told them they were a rescue party to save them from the vicious Paiutes they claimed were behind the attack. They said that they had negotiated a truce and persuaded the natives to let them escort them to safety in Cedar City.⁠ ⁠ The Baker-Fancher Party fell for it and the settlers were then separated into three groups of men, women, and children. The men were almost im...

The treadmill was invented originally in England as a prison rehabilitation device The Romans used them to remove water from mines, they were stacked one on top of the other until the water reached the surface, when the slave died from exhaustion, they would just replace them and leave the body where they fell, if they didn't like you they would put you on the bottom. While treadmills were used as prison torture devices for a few decades in England, this was far from the original invention of the treadmill. They've been around for so long that the original inventor is lost to history. Thousands of years ago, they were used for tasks like grinding grain or lifting water. For example, the romans had a treadmill-powered crane Here is one in the tower of a mediæval church in Nördligen. They were used as cranes, as you mentioned, for the construction of cathedrals and large churches. We know this from paintings from the time, but this is the only one I know of that they left i...

Serial killer Andrei Chikatilo demonstrates murdering one of his victims for police. Chikatilo was convicted of killing 52 people over a 12-year span. On Valentine's Day 1994, officials took Chikatilo to a soundproof room and executed him by pistol. Andrei Chikatilo, (born October 16, 1936, Yablochnoye, U.S.S.R. [now Ukraine]—died February 14, 1994, Moscow, Russia), Soviet serial killer who murdered at least 50 people between 1978 and 1990. His case is noteworthy not only because of the large number of his victims but because efforts by Soviet police to issue warnings to the public during their investigation were hampered by the country’s official ideology, which asserted that serial murder was impossible in a communist society. Chikatilo grew up in the aftermath of the great Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, during which millions of people died and many resorted to cannibalism to survive. During his childhood, he was told constantly by his mother that he had an older brother who had ...

Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, is hanged next to the crematorium at the camp, 1947 Rudolf Hoess (Rudolf Höss) was the architect and commandant of the largest killing center ever created, the death camp Auschwitz, whose name has come to symbolize humanity’s ultimate descent into evil.... Read story  Rudolf Hoess (Rudolf Höss) was the architect and commandant of the largest killing center ever created, the death camp Auschwitz, whose name has come to symbolize humanity’s ultimate descent into evil. On 1 May 1940, Hoess was appointed commandant of a prison camp in western Poland. The camp was built around an old Austro-Hungarian (and later Polish) army barracks near the town of Oswiecim; its German name was Auschwitz. Hoess commanded the camp for three and a half years, during which he expanded the original facility into a sprawling complex known as Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. After visiting Treblinka’s extermination camp to study i...

Execution by elephant conceptsjpeg Execution by elephant was an old method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, where Asian elephants were used to crush, dismember or torture captives in public executions. The animals were trained to kill victims immediately or to torture them slowly over a prolonged period. Most commonly employed by royalty, the elephants were used to signify both the ruler's power of life and death over his subjects and his ability to control wild animals. The sight of elephants executing captives was recorded in contemporary journals and accounts of life in Asia by European travellers. The practice was eventually suppressed by the European colonial powers that colonised the region in the 18th and 19th centuries. While primarily confined to Asia, the practice was occasionally used by European and African powers, such as Ancient Rome and Ancient Carthage, particularly to deal with mutinous soldiers. A Condemned Prisoner dismemb...

Iran: Man hanged in public in Gharchak (west of Tehran) Source: Iran Human Rights 1 man was hanged publicly in the town of Gharchak (Qarchak; Tehran province) early this morning. According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars, a 29 years old man identified as Bakhshali Asgari was hanged convicted of murdering a 9 year-old girl and her grandmother, sexual abuse of the girl and stealing the woman’s jewelry in 2009. The man was hanged publicly at 06:16 AM in front of tens of people. He had also been sentenced to 74 lashes and the sentenced was implemented in the prison yesterday. Based on the reports from the official Iranian sources, so far 35 people have been executed, seven of them publicly, in the month of October 2011 CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO .

How Ireland's only female executioner got the job Elizabeth Sugrue saved herself from the gallows by offering to hang her fellow condemned, and thus became Ireland’s only female executioner, says Robert Hume Elizabeth Sugrue saved herself from the gallows by offering to hang her fellow condemned, and thus became Ireland’s only female executioner, says Robert Hume Michael Manning, from Limerick, was executed in Mountjoy Prison in 1954 for raping and murdering Catherine Cooper, a nurse. The hangman was Albert Pierrepoint, a Yorkshireman: executioner by day; landlord by night. His father, Henry, and uncle, Thomas, were hangmen before him. “I love hanging Irishmen. They always go quietly and without trouble,” he supposedly said after Manning’s death. Pierrepoint was the last in a succession of hangmen in Ireland — including William Marwood, James Berry and Thomas Henry Scott, Bartholomew Binns, John Ellis and William Willis — who had been trained for the job in England. But one e...

Ireland 1849, Sidney Osborne: The gallows in Ireland were familiar and ever present features in front of every jailhouse Ireland 1849, Sidney Osborne | The gallows in Ireland were familiar and ever present features in front of every jailhouse - no higher from the ground than an ordinary second-floor. Unlike England, they were in Ireland permanent fixtures - balconies with their fallen floors still hanging down from the last execution for all Irish Catholics to see and contemplate. About 10 feet above each trapdoor was a horizontal iron beam from the end of which hung a large iron cast of a skull.” The law did not distinguish between adults and children, and ‘strong evidence of malice in a child of 7 to 14 years of age’ was also a hanging matter. Taken from The Truth Behind The Irish Famine. 72 paintings, 472 eyewitness quotes. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO .

One of the most sadistic torture techniques involved having a cage filled with large rats with one open side strapped against the victim's abdomen. The cage is then slowly heaten. Desperate to escape the heat, the rat begins to burrow through the only soft surface it can find: the victim's flesh. With sharp claws and teeth, the rat quickly gnaws its way into the victim's bowels, causing excruciating pain and terror, resulting in a horrifying death. The "Rats Dungeon", or "Dungeon of the Rats", was a feature of the Tower of London alleged by Roman Catholic writers from the Elizabethan era. "A cell below high-water mark and totally dark" would draw in rats from the River Thames as the tide flowed in. Prisoners would have their "alarm excited", and in some instances have "flesh ... torn from the arms and legs" During the Dutch Revolt, Diederik Sonoy, an ally of William the Silent, is documented to have used a method where...