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Georgia Plans to Execute a Mentally Retarded Man Tomorrow [Updated]
Hamilton Nolan · 07/17/12 01:07PM
Warren Hill (pictured) was convicted of a 1985 murder, and was sentenced to death after being convicted of beating a fellow inmate to death in 1990. He is scheduled to be executed by the state of Georgia tomorrow evening. Warren Hill's IQ is 70. He has been found by a court to be mentally retarded. Georgia plans to kill him anyhow.
West Texas Plastic Surgeon Allegedly Paid Hitman In Silver Bars to Kill Another Doctor, Who Was Dating his Ex-Girlfriend
Taylor Berman · 07/16/12 10:33PM
Dr. Thomas Michael Dixon, an Amarillo plastic surgeon with not terrible online ratings ("Very Good" at scheduling appointments, says healthgrades.com), allegedly hired a hitman to murder another doctor, who had been dating Dixon's ex-girlfriend. According to reports, Dixon paid David Shepard three silver bars, worth roughly $3000 each, to murder Dr. Joseph Sonnier III, the chief pathologist at Convenant Health in Lubbock.
Every NYC Tourist's Worst Nightmare Comes True for One Woman
Hamilton Nolan · 07/13/12 08:44AM
Years ago, when an acquaintance of mine in Florida heard I was going to visit New York City, he replied, with complete seriousness, "New York City, huh? You wanna take my pistol?" This is because all those local yokel out-of-towners down south still imagine New York to be a dark, dangerous land prowled by muggers and rapists. The fools! NYC is safer than ever. Unless you're that one terribly unlucky person.
Washington DC Police Officer Allegedly Threatened to Shoot Michelle Obama
Taylor Berman · 07/12/12 11:51PM
A Washington DC police officer who has worked the security detail for White House officials allegedly threatened to shoot Michelle Obama. The threat, which was overheard Wednesday morning, is currently under investigation by the DC police's Internal Affairs Division, and the Secret Service has been notified. In the meantime, the officer has been placed on administrative duty.
Man Arrested, Pleads Guilty For Spraying Girlfriend With Mystery Brown Sauce After She Refused to Stop Reading 50 Shades of Grey
Taylor Berman · 07/12/12 10:24PMRay Kelly Does Not Care About Black People
Hamilton Nolan · 07/11/12 12:40PM
Ray Kelly, the head of the NYPD, is just so full of shit. His police department has a massive "stop and frisk" program which, by the NYPD's own statistics, is existentially programmed to stop and frisk hundreds and hundreds of thousands of completely innocent young black and Latino men with no real cause. It is a minority dragnet, so blatantly racist that not even the police chief can quibble on that point. He can merely say: it's for the black people's own good.
DNA Evidence Links Occupy Wall Street Protest to 2004 Unsolved Murder [UPDATE]
Adrian Chen · 07/11/12 10:50AMProsecutor Calls Chris Brown's Community Service Into Question
Louis Peitzman · 07/10/12 11:01PMCar Chase Ends With Suspect Driving Off a Hill
Louis Peitzman · 07/10/12 10:05PM
Why do they always run?
Mom Who Accidentally Smothered Baby Gets Shamed By Nancy Grace, Sets Self on Fire
Louis Peitzman · 07/10/12 06:39PM
Toni Medrano did a horrible thing: she got drunk, passed out, and ended up smothering her newborn son. She faced two counts of manslaughter in the death of three-week-old Adrian. But Medrano's case will not be going to trial — on July 2, she doused herself in a flammable liquid and set herself on fire.
Psychotic Necrophiliac Killer Has Fans on Facebook
Louis Peitzman · 07/09/12 07:57PM'BBQ Chip Bandits' Terrorize Sleepy Canadian City
Neetzan Zimmerman · 07/09/12 05:00PMAfter a woman called police in Saanich, British Columbia, to report a possible break-in, multiple units were sent to set up a containment around the scene.
NYPD Officers Arrest Couple for Dancing Inside Deserted Subway Station
Neetzan Zimmerman · 07/09/12 02:55PMPeeing in Cups and Green Bologna: Life in the Texas Prison Without Water
Hamilton Nolan · 07/09/12 01:55PMVideo: Taliban Members Shoot Cowering Woman 9 Times
Leah Beckmann · 07/09/12 10:38AM
A woman was shot nine times in front of a cheering crowd in Afghanistan in what was called "an honor killing." The Taliban soldiers present in the video had allegedly had some kind of "dispute" with the woman, and, according to the governor of the province, Abdul Basir Salangi, accused her of adultery "in order to save face."
Man Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Cocaine That Killed Police Dog
Louis Peitzman · 07/07/12 12:30PMCrazy Person Who Broke into Diddy's Home Has Only Bitchy Things to Say About It
Caity Weaver · 07/06/12 10:15AMEverything That Happens at Williamsburg Pool Freighted With Heavy Sociocultural Significance
Hamilton Nolan · 07/05/12 08:47AM
Generally speaking, no mischief perpetrated by teenagers is "news." Teenagers not perpetrating mischief is news. This is because—no matter what race, creed, nationality, or socioeconomic stratum they come from—teenagers are punks. Do not, however, tell this to the New York Times. They have a very incisive sociological story to write.