Tennessee death row prisoner Oscar Smith put to death for killing his wife Judith and their teenage sons
A Tennessee inmate, Oscar Smith, was executed via lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her two teenage sons, Jason and Chad Burnett. Smith was pronounced dead at 10:47 AM after receiving a dose of pentobarbital, a barbiturate. At 75 years old, he maintained his innocence […]
Unmasking Lucy Letby by Jonathan Coffey and Judith Moritz review – reasonable doubt | True crime books
aAfter the child known as Baby C died, his mother made his tiny handprints and footprints into pendants to hang around her neck. She told the court that having them nearby comforted her. But even that is taken away from her when Lucy Levy, a nurse convicted of being Britain's worst child serial killer, is […]
American Hamas hostage Judith Raanan recounts Oct. 7 abduction
The first American Hamas hostage mother and daughter to be freed after the Oct. 7 attack relied on Louis Armstrong’s moving song “It’s a Wonderful World” to endure their final weeks of harrowing captivity. . Judith Raanan, 59, and her 18-year-old daughter Natalie were visiting family in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Gaza border, when […]
Famed Queer Theorist Judith Butler Calls October 7 Hamas Terror Attack ‘Armed Resistance’
Philosopher Judith Butler said on Sunday that the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, which killed 1,200 people, was not a terrorist attack but an “act of armed resistance” and that she was not sure if it was “the right thing to do”. He said it was debatable. Butler was the guest speaker Onunu’s […]