- Timothy McVeigh
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 - June 11, 2001), commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City bomber, was convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role on the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. The bombing, which claimed 168 lives, was the deadliest act of terrorism in American history until the September 11, 2001 attacks and remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the United States. - Benazir Bhutto
She was elected co-chairwoman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) along with her mother, and when free elections were finally held in 1988, she herself became Prime Minister. At 35, she was one of the youngest chief executives in the world, and the first woman to serve as prime minister in an Islamic country. - Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay Dutt (born July 29, 1959) is a famous two time Filmfare Awards winner movie staractor in Bollywood and also indulges as playback singer, he is considered the ultimate macho man in the bollywood film industry. He is the son of a Bollywood "power couple", Nargis and Sunil Dutt. Both his parents were awarded the Padmashree, a high civilian honor in India. His father Sunil Dutt was also a politician who campaigned for the Congress Party of India. - Megan Kanka
Megan Nicole Kanka (December 7, 1986 - July 29 1994) was a seven-year-old girl who was raped and murdered by her neighbor Jesse Timmendequas in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey. Timmendequas was already a convicted sex offender. Kanka's death resulted in the New Jersey Legislature passing Megan's Law, which requires convicted sex offenders to notify the local police department when they move into a neighborhood. - Ian Huntley
Ian Kevin Huntley (born 31 January 1974 in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England) is a convicted murderer, who in 2003 was convicted of murdering two 10-year-old girls - Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman - in the case known as the Soham murders. He committed the crimes in August 2002 and is now serving life imprisonment; he is expected to remain in prison until at least 2042. - Assata Shakur
My name is Assata ("she who struggles") Shakur ("the thankful one"), and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and v - Stanley Williams
Stanley Tookie Williams III (December 29, 1953 - December 13, 2005), born in Monroe, Louisiana, was a convicted murderer and an early leader of the Crips, a notorious American street gang which had its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1971. In December 2005 he was executed for the 1979 murders of Albert Owens, Yen-Yi Yang, Tsai-Shai Lin, and Yee-Chen Lin. Williams refused to aid police investigations with any information against his gang, … - Marc Dutroux
Marc Dutroux (born 6 November 1956 in Brussels) is a Belgian criminal, convicted of having, in 1995 and 1996, kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered. He was also convicted of having killed a suspected former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein. He was arrested in 1996 and has been in prison since then. His widely publicised trial took place in 2004. - Cory Maye
Cory Maye, sometimes spelled Corey Maye (born September 9, 1980) is a prisoner in the U.S. state of Mississippi. He was convicted of murder in the 2001 death of Prentiss, Mississippi police officer Ron W. Jones during a drug raid on the other half of Maye's duplex. Maye has said he thought that the intruders were burglars and did not realize they were police. He pleaded not guilty at his trial, citing self-defense. - Edward Smith
Edward Smith committed one of the first bank robberies in the United States on March 19, 1831. He stole $245,000 from the City Bank on Wall Street in New York City. He was eventually arrested, convicted, and sentenced to five years in Sing Sing prison. - Irwin Schiff
Irwin A. Schiff (b. 1928) is a prominent member of the United States group which refers to itself as the tax honesty movement, and which has been referred to by the Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies as the tax protester movement. Schiff is known for writing and promoting literature that claims the United States income tax is applied incorrectly. - Anthony Porter
Anthony Porter (born 1955) was a prisoner on death row whose conviction was overturned in a landmark case for Illinois law and opponents of the death penalty across the world. - Ahmed Zaoui
Ahmed Zaoui is an Algerian member of the Islamic Salvation Front who was convicted on terrorism-related charges in Belgium and France. He arrived in New Zealand on 4 December 2002 where he sought refugee status. - Peter Braunstein
Peter Braunstein (born 1964) is a New York City, USA-based journalist, writer, and playwright who became infamous for committing a October 31 2005 sexual assault, leading police on a multi-state manhunt until his capture and self-injury in Memphis, Tennessee on December 16 2005. Dubbed the "Halloween rapist", the "fake firefighter", "fire fiend", and other names by the media, Braunstein became an unlikely criminal mastermind and the most wanted man in New York City, … - Joseph Massino
Joseph C. "Big Joey" Massino (January 10, 1943) known in the media as "The Last Don", was a Queens, New York restaurateur and former head of the Bonanno crime family. He was convicted in July 2004 of racketeering, seven murders, arson, extortion, loan sharking, illegal gambling, conspiracy, and money laundering. - Larry Fisher
Larry Fisher (born August 21, 1949) is a Canadian man who was convicted in 1999 of a murder he committed in 1969. On January 31, 1969, Gail Miller was raped and murdered in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. David Milgaard was first wrongfully convicted of the crime and served 23 years in prison before being released in 1992, and exonerated by DNA evidence in 1997. Fisher was arrested, July 25, 1997 in Calgary. He was convicted November 22, 1999, and sentenced on January 4, 2000, … - Roger Keith Coleman
Roger Keith Coleman (November 1, 1958 - May 20, 1992) was a Grundy, Virginia, coal miner convicted and executed for the murder of his sister-in-law, Wanda McCoy. Coleman's case drew national attention before and after his execution because of his repeated claims of innocence. In 2006, Virginia Governor Mark Warner announced that recently re-examined DNA evidence had conclusively proven Coleman's guilt. - Basdeo Panday
Basdeo Panday- (born May 25, 1933) was Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001 and has served as Leader of the Opposition from 1976-1977, 1978-1986, 1989-1995 and 2001-2006. He was first elected to Parliament in 1976 as the Member for Couva North. He is the Chairman and interim party leader of the Opposition United National Congress. In 2006, Panday was convicted of failing to declare a bank account in London and imprisoned but as of March 20, 2007, … - Lemuel Smith
Lemuel Warren Smith (born July 23, 1941), is a convicted serial killer and rapist from Upstate New York who was the first convict ever to kill an on-duty female prison officer. - Harris Black
Harris Black is a convicted fraudster from Canada. - Stuart Campbell
Stuart Campbell (born 1958) was a builder who was convicted in December 2002 of abducting and murdering his niece Danielle Jones, 15, and lost an appeal on January 21st 2005. She disappeared on 18th June 2001 while walking to a bus stop in East Tilbury, Essex, where she lived. Her body has never been recovered, and Campbell has always maintained his innocence. It is unusual to prosecute for murder in the UK without a body, … - Percy Levar Walton
Percy Levar Walton (born on October 18, 1978) is an African American from Virginia who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1997 for the November 1996 murders of Elizabeth and Jessee Hendrick, aged 81 and 80, and Archie Moore, aged 33, in Danville, Virginia. He was scheduled to be executed on 8 June 2006, but the governor of Virginia, Timothy Kaine, … - Galen Fox
Galen Fox is a former Hawaii state representative and convicted sex offender. - Andrew Mallard
Andrew Mallard is a West Australian who was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to life imprisonment for the violent murder of Pamela Lawrence on May 23, 1994. The evidence used in Mallard's trial was scarce and obscure, and it was later revealed that the police withheld vital information from his defence team. Almost twelve years later, and only after a High Court appeal, his conviction was quashed, a re-trial ordered, … - Robert Hoskins
Robert Dewey Hoskins (born 1957 or 1958) is an Oregonian drifter who was arrested and convicted for stalking and threatening to kill American pop singer Madonna in 1995. - Dobie Gillis Williams
Dobie Gillis Williams (born in 1961; died on January 8, 1999) was a convicted American murderer. He was tried and executed in Louisiana for the murder of Sonja Knippers. In 2005, Williams was the subject of a book by anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean in which she asserts the position that Williams was wrongfully executed, due to ineffective legal counsel and the fact that poor people are executed more than others. - Lucia de Berk
Lucia de Berk (born The Hague, Netherlands 22 September, 1961), in the Dutch media generally called Lucy de B. or Lucia de B., is a Dutch nurse who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2003. She was found responsible for the death of patients who had been entrusted to her care. Altogether she was convicted of seven murders and three attempted murders. Her conviction is controversial among the media and scientists and has been questioned by Peter R. de Vries. - Rebecca Falcon
Rebecca Falcon (born December 24, 1981) was convicted of felony murder for a her part in a foiled robbery of a taxi cab driver. In November, 1997, Falcon had been intoxicated when she agreed to pull off a robbery with a stranger. The driver of the car was killed in her presence, however, her part in the robbery meant she was deemed to be culpable in his death. She was convicted and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1999. - Dole Chadee
Dole Chadee (born Nankissoon Boodram) (executed June 4, 1999) was a drug lord and convicted murderer. His base of operation was in Piparo, Trinidad and Tobago. Chadee was reputed to be one of the top drug lords in the Caribbean, but was never convicted of drug-related offenses. Together with eight members of his gang, he was convicted of the January 10, 1994 murders of Deo, Rookmin, Hamilton and Monica Baboolal of Piparo. - Stephen Stanko
Stephen Stanko (born 1968), is a convicted murderer, who killed two people and raped a teenage girl in Murrels Inlet, a small town in Georgetown County, South Carolina, in 2005. - Derrick O'Brien
Derrick Sean O'Brien was a convicted murderer who was executed by lethal injection in the State of Texas. O'Brien was 18 when, as one of six members of a Houston street gang, was convicted for the killings of Elizabeth Peña, 16, and Jennifer Ertman, 14. The two girls, who attended Waltrip High School, had been attacked as they took a shortcut along railroad tracks and stumbled on their soon to be murderers drinking beer after initiating a new gang member. - Jason Swift
Jason Swift (born 1971 in Nuneaton (the fourth of five children, died 1985), was a victim of paedophile Sidney Cooke and his gang. His body was found on 30 November 1985 in a field in Essex after he had been missing since July 1985. He had run away from his sister's house in Hackney in July 1985 after his parents marriage broke up. He had reportedly died with a single tear running down his cheek after suffering the most horrific sexual abuse imaginable. - Leon David
Leon David was an alleged assassin of Malcolm X, but was never convicted of this crime. A member of the Nation of Islam, he lives in New Jersey. Talmadge Hayer, who had been convicted in the murder of Malcolm X and sentenced to life in prison, signed two affidavits that his charged conspirators were innocent and the David was one of the real assassins. See Hayer affidavits. - Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
Angel Maturino Reséndiz, aka The Railway Killer/The Railroad Killer, was a convicted serial killer, executed in the U.S. state of Texas. He was an illegal immigrant from Mexico, who wandered the United States on trains to commit his crimes. For the serial murders, on June 21 1999 he briefly became the 457th fugitive listed by the FBI on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He was 39 years old when he was arrested in July 1999. - Sam Destefano
Samuele "Mad Sam" DeStefano (September 13, 1909-April 14, 1973) was an American gangster and one of the Chicago Outfit's most successful hitmen for more than three decades. He is known in Chicago, especially to FBI agents such as William Roemer, as the worst torture-murderer in the history of the United States. - Antonie Ronnie Dixon
Antonie Ronnie Dixon is a convicted murderer serving a life-sentence, in Auckland, New Zealand. He became prominent due to heavy media coverage of his crimes, partly because of the involvement of the methamphetamine drug known in New Zealand as 'P'. - Grafton Green
Grafton Green (1872-1947) was an American jurist. Green earned an LL.B from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University in 1893, being called to the bar that same year. He operated a law practice in Nashville, Tennessee until 1910, when he was appointed an associate justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Green became the Chief Justice of Tennessee in 1923, serving until his death. Currently, he is the longest-serving justice on the State's High Bench. - Jennifer Safavian
Jennifer McLaughlin Safavian, is one of twelve counsels for oversight and investigations on the United States Congress House Government Reform Committee, which is responsible for overseeing government procurement, and helped lead that committee's investigation into the Federal response to Hurricane Katrina. Jennifer is the wife of David Safavian, a convicted former officer of the Bush administration closely tied to the Abramoff-Reed Indian Gambling Scandal. - David Cash Jr.
For the professional wrestler, see David Cash David Cash, Jr. is an American who witnessed his friend Jeremy Strohmeyer molest a 7-year-old girl, Sherrice Iverson in a bathroom at a Nevada casino on 1997-05-25 shortly before she was murdered. Strohmeyer was later convicted of the murder and sentenced to four separate life sentences. - David Sheldon Boone
David Sheldon Boone is a former U.S. Army signals analyst who worked for the National Security Agency and was convicted of espionage-related charges in 1999 related to his sale of secret documents to the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991. He is currently serving a prison sentence of 24 years and four months. Boone's case was an example of a late Cold War U.S. government security breach.
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