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Crime and Punishment

Stabbed with a Corkscrew

iafrica.com

, May 4, 2003 -A woman allegedly killed her cousin with a bottle

opener during an argument at their house in Ashton, near Worcester in the

Western Cape on Friday, police said. Captain William Reid said the woman (31)

was arrested after she had allegedly stabbed her male cousin (42) in the chest

with a

corkscrew

bottle opener and he died at the scene.

Apparently the two were at a house in Ashton around 7:20pm on Friday with

other members of the family and had an argument over food. The man allegedly

began hitting the woman with a broomstick and she stabbed him with the bottle

opener. Reid said the woman would appear in the Montague Magistrate

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s Court

on Monday.

Trouble in Bitterroot

Bitterroot, Montana, November 25, 2003

–

The Ravalli Republic

reported

―

Lamar

Fawcett, 41, faces two felony charges and a misdemeanor allegation from an

alleged altercation early Sunday morning. He was charged Monday in Justice

Court with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, both felonies, and partner

or family member assault, a misdemeanor. The fight that allegedly happened at

the suspect

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s residence at Bitterroot Family Campground south of Hamilton

resulted in the victim receiving a two- and-a-half-inch cut to the left side of her

face, along with other cuts and bruises, according to court documents.

Investigators believe she was cut by a

corkscrew

or knife.

The Gory Details

North America - In his

Tyranny in the New World

, D. Wylie, Jr., B.S., a student of

Sociology details some of the human rights violations in North American history.

He discusses the 1904 killing of a white plantation owner.

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Luther Holbert, a

Negro sharecropper attempted to escape from his home in Vardaman

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s

Mississippi with his wife before a lynch mob could dispense its own form of

‗

justice.

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Catching up with the Holberts on February 7 in Doddsville, the mob

bound the couple to convenient trees. While the mob

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s ringleaders forced the

Holberts to hold out their hands in order that their fingers could be chopped off

one by one

—

the audience of 600 spectators enjoyed treats like deviled eggs,

lemonade, and whiskey in a festive atmosphere. Next, the Holberts

‘

ears were

amputated and those severed appendages, along with the disconnected digits,