Just when you thought that absurd, monstrous Biblical punishments had been consigned to the dustbin of history, the Taliban is bringing back stoning. Way to be awful monsters, guys. What crime merited this horrific execution method?

Nine people (and counting) have been killed in a workplace shooting in Manchester, Connecticut.

In "this economy," we don't have many exports except, apparently, for serial killers. American fugitives William Dathan Holbert and Laura Michelle Reese were arrested in Costa Rica as suspects in as many as nine murders in Panama.

A couple was arrested after the bodies of eight newborn babies were uncovered in France, some buried in the garden of a home that was recently sold. The case is the latest in a string of similar crimes in France.

Last week, a family of five in Staten Island died in a house fire. After initially blaming 14 year-old C.J. for killing his family, police backtracked yesterday, saying the mother did it. To whom does the media owe an apology?

Last week, a house on Staten Island burned to the ground, killing the entire Jones family—four children and a mother. Most had their throats cut. Police blamed C.J., the allegedly murderous 14 year-old son. Now, they've cleared him. Whoops?

Murders are supposed to take place on dark inner city streets, or out in the woods. They are not supposed to take place in Beverly Hills, or—heaven forbid—in a holy place. Yet this week, they are.

Greek investigative journalist Socratis Giolas was gunned down on Monday, possibly by left-wing terrorists.

If you have heard John McCain and Jan Brewer making hyperbolic claims of illegal immigrants kidnapping, murdering, raping, and beheading everyone and their brother in Arizona these days — their justification for the immigration law — then consider ignoring them?

Bruno Souza, a popular goalie, has been arrested, along with his wife and several friends, for murdering his 25-year-old mistress, chopping her up, and feeding the pieces to dogs. He says he will "laugh at all this" later. [via, Image:AP]

Crystal Gail Magnum, the woman who falsely accused members of the Duke lacrosse team of raping her, held a crazy press conference in her yard today to announce that new charges against her—of arson and attempted murder—are false.

This week, the Supreme Court struck down like every handgun ban in America. Sure, some mothers of murdered children will whine. But take it from a certified Fox News psychologist: gun ownership is essential to our very sanity.

Gay sex pals Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky, and Dylan Ward have been found not guilty of obstruction of justice in the crazy 2006 murder of prominent D.C. lawyer Robert Wone. A $20 million wrongful death civil case is still pending.

Louisiana rapper Lil Boosie—who's already serving a ten-year jail sentence on drug and gun charges—has now also been hit with a first degree murder charge. Just one murder? Well, maybe not just one.

International playboy, and likely murderer Joran van der Sloot bragged to a Dutch newspaper that women are writing him letters in jail with marriage proposals and asking for his sperm. He also expressed no remorse at Stephany Flores' death.

Sex criminal Nicolas Cocaign is on trial for beating his prison cellmate, stabbing him with a pair of scissors, cutting him open, popping out a rib, ripping out a lung, and eating it with a side of fried onions.

The third Filipino journalist in less than a week was shot to death Saturday night.

Suspected murder and former college professor Amy Bishop attempted suicide in jail a day after she was charged with the killing of her brother.

Hiring a hitman to kill your spouse might soon be less lucrative than it once was in California.

Stephen Hill, the porn star who played Obama in Palin: Erection '08 and went on a sword-slashing rampage at his workplace, fell 50 feet to his death this morning after an eight-hour police standoff, with scores of photojournalists watching.