http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/murderer/ en-us Sat, 4 Jul 2009 00:20:31 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285174/posts Today is the 146th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Gettysburg. A few months later, as the National Cemetery there was being organized, an invitation was extended to President Lincoln to give "a few appropriate remarks" for the dedication in November, 1863. Lincoln would not be the main speaker, that honor would go to Edward Everett, one of the foremost orators of the day. Everett spoke for almost two hours and, for the most part, his remarks are lost to the ages. Lincoln's "few appropriate remarks" however, are some of the most familiar wods in American History. To... examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285174/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 00:20:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277064/posts ROME — A Palestinian man who helped plan the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship during which an American passenger was killed has died in an Italian jail. Lawyer Sandro Clementi said Khaled Hussein died of a heart attack early Monday in a jail in Benevento, near Naples. He was 73. Sign on San Diego http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277064/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:51:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2275261/posts Hours after detectives arrested Vincent Smothers in a suburban Detroit alley in the spring of 2008, they say, he came out with a stunning confession: "I don't have a profession," he allegedly told an investigator. "I kill people for money." Then, police say, he laid out details of how each of eight hired hits happened. He stalked his victims before shooting them at close range. He killed some while talking on his cell phone and fired on others even when they appeared to lay lifeless on the ground. Even in Detroit, which had more than 300 slayings last year, Smothers'... foxnews. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2275261/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:30:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263164/posts Tuesday June 2, 2009 A Portrait of a Murderer: The Life of Suspected Tiller Killer Scott Roeder By Peter J. SmithWICHITA, Kansas, June 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A clearer portrait has now emerged of the man who took it into his hands to play judge, jury, and executioner of George Tiller, the foremost provider of late-term abortions in the United States. The portrait reveals a mentally disturbed, long-time anarchist and convicted felon, who succumbed to the influence of an anti-abortion domestic terrorist group and believed that he had to commit murder in order to stave off the wrath of... LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Life, Family, and Culture Outpost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263164/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:55:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262946/posts A cell phone dropped during a Pinole house burglary led authorities to a man wanted on suspicion of three East Bay killings — after he dialed his own number to find it, police said. "One of the officers hears a phone ringing over by the broken window. He finds it, and answers it," Pinole police Chief Paul Clancy said. "The voice says, 'Hey, did you find my phone?'"‰" The officers had been summoned to the scene after an Alice Way resident interrupted a burglary at the home about 9:30 p.m. May 23. The burglar apparently entered by breaking a window... Contra Costa Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262946/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:27:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261843/posts FROM L.A. SLIMES: But Warren Hern, a Colorado physician and close friend of Tiller's who said he is now "the only doctor in the world" who performs very late-term abortions, said Tiller's death was predictable. Dr. Warren Hern's websiteFrom this article: Did I Violate the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban? (warning: contains graphic description) The following is an except from an article in Slate by Dr. Warren Hern, M.D. Earlier this year, I began an abortion on a young woman who was 17 weeks pregnant. Because of the two days of prior treatment, the amniotic membranes were visible and bulging. I... Hern website and other sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261843/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:48:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256062/posts ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A mother playing with her children at a park spotted a little black sneaker sticking out of the sand underneath the playground equipment. Figuring a youngster had lost his shoe, she bent down to pick it up. It was strangely heavy. She had made a ghastly discovery: a dead little boy, buried in the sand. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256062/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 03:54:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254105/posts Kennedy's cancer in remission By Alexander Bolton and Michael Sandler Posted: 05/19/09 02:44 PM [ET] Sen. Edward Kennedy’s brain cancer is in remission and the Massachusetts Democrat is expected back in the Senate after the Memorial Day recess, according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Sen. Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that he spoke with Kennedy’s wife and was told the 77-year-old lawmaker will return to work full time during the first week of June. The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254105/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 18:59:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250873/posts Even when Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals does the right thing - as it did Monday in denying convicted killer Kevin Cooper a hearing on yet another of his dubious appeals - there is always a judge, or in this case five, on the court with an overly active imagination. And those judges don't help the court's results-oriented reputation. On June 2, 1983, Kevin Cooper escaped from the California Institution for Men at Chino where he was serving time under a phony name for burglary. He hid out at a Chino Hills home until June 4, when he broke into... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250873/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 16:24:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249992/posts SHERMAN, Texas -- The father of a U.S. soldier accused of killing five fellow troops in Iraq said his son "forfeited his life" but the military bears some responsibility for the rampage. Wilburn Russell said Tuesday that 44-year-old Army Sgt. John M. Russell wasn't typically a violent person, but counselors "broke" him before gunfire erupted in a military stress center Monday in Baghdad. "John has forfeited his life. Apparently, he said (to his wife), 'My life is over. To hell with it. I'm going to get even with 'em,'" said the elder Russell, 73. His father said the younger Russell,... news max http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249992/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 14:34:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248702/posts James William Kilgore, the last captured member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, was released on parole Sunday morning from a Northern California prison. Kilgore, 61, was arrested in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2002 after almost three decades on the run. He was one of five SLA members who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 1975 death of Myrna Opsahl, a 42-year-old mother of four who was killed by a shotgun blast after she arrived at a suburban Sacramento bank. Kilgore apologized to Opsahl's family at his sentencing, saying he wished he could live that day over. He served... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248702/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 19:28:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239899/posts Long before he became one of the most liberal Republicans in the Senate — and the target of Congressman Pat Toomey's GOP primary challenge — Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania demonstrated a knack for notoriety. In 1964, as a member of the Warren Commission, he invented the "single-bullet theory" to explain how Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy. Conspiracy junkies have obsessed over him ever since. (In Oliver Stone's movie JFK, Kevin Costner's character labels Specter "an ambitious junior counselor" behind "one of the grossest lies ever forced on the American people.") Between serving on the Warren Commission and becoming a... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239899/posts#comment Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:40:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2237764/posts A manhunt is on in Athens for a University of Georgia professor accused of shooting and killing three people. Police are looking for George M. Zinkhan III, a professor in the Department of Marketing and Distribution. George M. Zinkhan Two blocks were secured in Athens after the shootings.He is a 57-year-old white male, last seen wearing a polo shirt and blue shorts, according to the UGA web site. He may be traveling in a red car. The shooting happened late this morning at or near the Athens Community Theatre off Prince Avenue near downtown. Clarke County coroner Sonny Wilson confirmed... Atlanta Journal-Constitution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2237764/posts#comment Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:23:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220420/posts Hundreds mourn man who killed police officers Leslie Fulbright, Chronicle Staff Writer Nearly 500 people gathered at an East Oakland church Tuesday to say goodbye to Lovelle Mixon, the 26-year-old parolee who was killed by police after he went on a shooting rampage that left four Oakland officers dead. The open-casket service, held at Fuller Funerals on International Boulevard, was about an hour long and had such a large turnout that a number of guests were forced to stand. Singers sang. Poets read, and speakers remembered Mixon as an intense and animated storyteller, for his big smile, love of boxing... sf chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220420/posts#comment Thu, 2 Apr 2009 03:09:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218537/posts Naperville School District 203 has canceled an April 8 appearance at Naperville North High School by 1960s radical William Ayers, saying any value the visit could have offered students would have been lost in the controversy surrounding the event. "I simply wasn't comfortable that this was in our students' and our school's best interest," Supt. Alan Leis said Monday. "We tried to put some procedures in place, but clearly our community has let us know that they just don't think that's appropriate." Chicago Breaking News Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218537/posts#comment Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:48:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216109/posts <p>SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Jimmy Carter came to Notre Dame in 1977. So did Ronald Reagan in 1981 and George W. Bush in 2001.</p> <p>The University of Notre Dame has a tradition of inviting new presidents to speak at graduation. But this year's selection of President Barack Obama has been met by a barrage of criticism that has left some students fearing their commencement ceremony will turn into a circus.</p> myway.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216109/posts#comment Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:50:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2208507/posts Jon Opsahl said he doesn't think domestic terrorist-turned-housewife Sara Jane Olson served nearly enough time for his mother's murder, but he's relieved the saga ended with Olson's Tuesday release from prison. Sara Jane Olson was released from a California prison Tuesday after serving seven years. Sara Jane Olson was released from a California prison Olson, a member of the self-styled revolutionary Symbionese Liberation Army -- perhaps best known for kidnapping Patricia Hearst -- was released from a California prison after serving seven years, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. She was released to her husband just after midnight... cnn. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2208507/posts#comment Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:10:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208270/posts Olson took part in two bank robberies to help fund the SLA, according to court documents. During the Carmichael robbery, Olson "entered the bank with a firearm and kicked a nonresisting pregnant teller in the stomach. The teller miscarried after the robbery," the documents said. In August 1975, Los Angeles police found homemade bombs under two squad cars. They were designed to explode when the car moved, but neither device detonated. Authorities cast the attempted bombings as payback for the bloody shootout that left Atwood and other SLA members dead. A probe into the gunbattle helped police arrest Hearst, the... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208270/posts#comment Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:41:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197899/posts MSNBC's Chris Matthews thinks Gov. Kathleen Sebilius will encounter the "terrorism of the, of the anti-abortion people" during her nomination process. Matthews later clarified he meant "verbal terrorism." MATTHEWS: Who becomes the governor, the woman governor. She looks like her, in fact. Is she gonna get through the, the terrorism of the, of the anti-abortion people? Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197899/posts#comment Tue, 3 Mar 2009 05:01:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2196142/posts Author's note: A version of the following column first appeared in the Christian Coalition magazine. It also was posted on the Illinois Leader and, most recently, appeared on the Illinois Family Institute's web site. To see a video of Dan and his wife Julie discussing the pain of their long past, but haunting decision to abort, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nuEU3YLlvg Nearly thirty years ago, my wife and I aborted a child. That decision will haunt us for the rest of our lives. Since that time, I've developed deep feelings on the subject of abortion. There are two primary reasons why I'm... RFFM.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2196142/posts#comment Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:52:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181423/posts A seven-year-old boy who died defending his older sister from a potential rapist has been honoured posthumously. Zhenya Tabakov's mother received the order of courage medal on behalf of her son. Just over two months ago Galina lost her son and she's still struggling to get over the shock. Zhenya was brutally murdered by a robber, as the boy was trying to save his 12-year-old sister from being raped. It all happened in late November, in the small military town of Noginsk-9 - a place where even small crimes are rare. Around midday, a man rang the bell of... Russia Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181423/posts#comment Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:14:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180780/posts ARLINGTON – Police Detective Tommy Le Noir remembers the alarm that gripped this city in 1996 after two young women were found strangled in the bathtubs of their east Arlington apartment complex. "There was a lot of fear in the community and in the Police Department," Le Noir said. "The fear is that you don't want this to happen again. At that time there was some incredible panic in those apartment complexes. People moved out in masses. It was just an incredible time." Tuesday night, almost 13 years after the crimes, the state plans to execute 35-year-old Dale Devon Scheanette... The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180780/posts#comment Sun, 8 Feb 2009 04:13:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168258/posts Ted Kennedy was taken out of the Statuary Hall luncheon after suffering an apparent seizure -- a few minutes after Sen. Robert Byrd was removed in his wheelchair under the supervision of medical personnel. Byrd was conscious and had been having trouble eating, according to a witness. Kennedy, who underwent brain cancer surgery last year, was taken to the Rayburn room. A police radio picked up a call for paramedics to help someone stricken with a seizure, according to Politico's Patrick Kennedy. Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168258/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:57:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163377/posts HUNTSVILLE, TX ― A Grayson County man sentenced to die for killing his wife, her daughter and their son, gouged out his other eye in prison last month. According to the warden at the state prison in Huntsville, death row inmate Andre Thomas gouged out his left eye in early December and then ate it. Five days after the murders in March 2004, Thomas gouged out his right eye inside a Grayson County jail cell after reading a Bible verse. The state's top Criminal Appeals Court upheld Thomas' conviction and death sentence back in October of 2008. Thomas is now... KXII - TV 12, Sherman, TX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163377/posts#comment Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:52:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159877/posts An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.” These are the words of Mahatma Gandhi. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” These are the words of Martin Luther King Jr. Their names alone conjure up the images of leaders of history that invoked change through what they called “Peaceful Militancy.” However their words define what was on their hearts; words that moved others to action with a desired peaceful result. History attests to the fruitful results of such civilized methods of protesting injustice and... The Epoch Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159877/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:44:07 GMT