In 2012, Honduras didn’t just have the worst homicide rate in the world — it was also witnessing murders more than twice as frequently as the nation with the next worst record, Belize. More than 90 Hondurans out of every 100,000 were murdered that year, compared to 43 in Belize and 42 in El Salvador, […]
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‘God’ agreed to send all victims of extrajudicial killings to heaven, Duterte claims
All victims of extrajudicial killings will get a free pass to heaven, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte announced after purportedly consulting with “God” on the issue. Speaking at the opening of a drug rehabilitation center on Friday, the eccentric Philippines leader disclosed that he had “asked God” for “all the victims of extrajudicial killings” to go […]
Jordanian immigrant convicted for ‘honor killings’ in Texas may be put to death
A Houston court has found a Jordanian immigrant guilty of the ‘honor killing’ of his daughter’s husband and masterminding the murder of her friend in 2012. Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan now faces life imprisonment or the death penalty. Read more Furious that his daughter Nesreen had chosen to convert from Islam to Christianity and marry an […]
'There would be no killings if Hamas told protesters to stay away from border'– Israeli PM spokesman
The deaths during the ‘Great Return’ protest are the fault of Hamas, says the Israeli Prime Minister’s media spokesman. According to him, Israel was only defending from an “onslaught” of Palestinians trying to cross the border. Speaking to RT, David Keyes, Benjamin Netanyahu’s foreign media spokesperson, said the ‘Great Return’ protests staged by Palestinians along […]
US ‘cautiously optimistic’ after seeing decline in extrajudicial killings in Philippines drug war
Thomson Reuters The US is cautiously optimistic about Philippine President rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs after seeing a decline in extrajudicial killings. The US has shifted away millions in dollars in support for law enforcement for the Philippines since the bloody anti-drug campaign started in 2016. Nearly 4,000 have been killed in shoot-outs with the […]
Transgender killings hit all-time high, advocacy group points finger at Trump
Published time: 18 Nov, 2017 18:45 The killing of transgender people has spiked to an all-time high in the United States with advocacy groups reporting that there have been at least 25 transgender homicide victims so far this year. In a report released Friday, the Human Rights Campaign revealed that 102 transgender people have been […]
‘These killings were dirty’: Mexican gunfight that killed 17 raises fears of police executions
MAZATLAN, Mexico (Reuters) – Relatives of 17 suspected gang members killed late last week by police in northwest Mexico fear a skewed death toll points to what has become a grimly regular complaint in recent years — summary executions by security forces. The 17 men, who authorities said were armed with 24 guns, were killed […]
Pretty Little Liars' Gnarliest Deaths: Ranking the 10 Most Chilling Killings
For a show called Pretty Little Liars, not everything that’s gone down over the past seven seasons has been, well, pretty. Fresh off the reveal of Charlotte DiLaurentis’ killer — spoiler alert: it was exactly who you thought it was going to be — TVLine is looking back on the Freeform drama’s deaths that straight-up […]
Killings of LGBTQ people in US rose 217%, boosted by Pulse shooting – report
A total of 77 LGBTQ people were killed in the US in 2016 – the highest figure in more than 20 years of record keeping, and a rise of 217 percent. The number was boosted by the massacre of 49 people in an attack on a gay club in Florida last June. Outside of the […]