The Boy Nevada Killed: Floyd Loveless and the Juvenile Capital Punishment Debate

The Boy Nevada Killed: Floyd Loveless and the Juvenile Capital Punishment Debate
Author: Janice Oberding
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2017-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439659443

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At seventeen, Floyd Burton Loveless became the youngest person ever executed by the state of Nevada. What led him to that end was just as tragic. Following a series of family catastrophes, Loveless was a petty thief by age twelve and a confessed rapist at fifteen. Sentenced to seven years at an Indiana state boys" reformatory, he escaped after a month in custody. The ruthless teen robbed his way to Carlin, Nevada, where he shot and killed a constable who spotted the stolen car he was driving and confronted him. After a protracted legal battle, Loveless died in the gas chamber on September 29, 1944. Author Janice Oberding recounts the sordid details that sparked national controversy over the constitutionality of juvenile capital punishment.

Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors of Hollywood and Los Angeles

Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors of Hollywood and Los Angeles
Author: Janice Oberding
Publisher: America Through Time
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-01-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781634992817

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Murder is shocking. The savagery of Elizabeth Short's (also known as the Black Dahlia) slaying was beyond anything Los Angeles, indeed the U.S., had experienced. Short would not be the only young woman in Los Angeles during the 1940s to suffer at the hands of a brutal and sadistic killer, a killer who was never caught. Senseless murder, rape, and robbery were a common thread throughout the streets of Los Angeles of the mid-twentieth century. Men and women without much hope, and even less money, were all too often the victims and the perpetrators. However, the wealthy were not exempt. Love, rage, jealousy, and money were all reasons for the murders, mysteries, and misdemeanors covered in this book, from one end of Los Angeles to the other.

Loveless Marriage Among the Dinkas

Loveless Marriage Among the Dinkas
Author: Chuei Mareng
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-09-16
Genre: Arranged marriage
ISBN: 9781926780207

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Loveless Marriage Among the Dinkas explores the practicality of the arranged marriages and forced marriages within the Dinka communities of Southern Sudan. The book focuses on the question of human beings' free will and free choices. Loveless Marriage Among the Dinkas is divided into three parts to give a clear explanation of the arranged marriages and forced marriages within the Dinka communities. Part I of the book provides a brief history of the Dinka; while part II examines the genesis of marriages; and part III explores the human rights issues that are surrounding the arranged marriages and forced marriages within the Dinka communities.

Gone Shopping

Gone Shopping
Author: Lorraine Gamman
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2012-07-31
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1448209714

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Voted one of The Guardian's top 10 best crime books of all time and one of the best true crime books ever written according to Stylist Shirley Pitts, the eldest of six children was born upside down on 24 November 1934. Her 'career' began by thieving bread off doorsteps and coal from coal carts. Her father's bungled attempts at black marketeering and her dipsomaniac mother's inadequacies made Shirley resolve not only to be a first-class thief but also the best mother her six children could wish for. Before she died Shirley told her story to Lorraine - the story of a generous, brave and beautiful woman with a huge sense of fun and a love of life.

The Shark Arm Case

The Shark Arm Case
Author: Vincent Gatton Kelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 167
Release: 1975
Genre: Trials (Murder)
ISBN: 9780207132124

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Reminiscences of Famous Georgians

Reminiscences of Famous Georgians
Author: Lucian Lamar Knight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 786
Release: 1908
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

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The Disappearance of Bambi Woods

The Disappearance of Bambi Woods
Author: Pete Dove
Publisher:
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2019-07-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781084198449

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A collection of True Crime in the porn industrySuch scripts as existed for sleazy flicks such as Debbie Does Dallas were threadbare. Often, they consisted of little more than a hint of dialogue to be improvised in whatever location had been hi-jacked for filming - this was still a time when obscenity laws could see an entire cast and crew apprehended, arrested and tried for acts committed in the face of public decency. It was best not to advertise your whereabouts.For some of the industry's actors and actresses performance was a means to an end. For others, an unfortunate hole into which they fell, headfirst and out of full control. Debbie, the eponymous character of the film, was played by an attractive young star in the making called Bambi Woods. In fact, she wasn't called Bambi Woods; anybody aware of this lady's real name refuses to reveal it and while there is much speculation online, the validity of any claim is open to considerable question.For the purposes of this piece, the name Bambi Woods will need to suffice. Her real name may have been, or maybe still is, Debra DeSanto. Equally it might be Barbara Woodson. The uncertainty around the words in this article so far can be excused. Because, in the mid-1980s, it may have been the case that Bambi died, in lurid circumstances, in a drug and sex fueled orgy of excess. Or, perhaps she did not. Although widely reported, her death has never been confirmed. Certainly, plenty of those who claim to know the real person behind the character are confident that she is still alive.

Hank Greenberg

Hank Greenberg
Author: John Rosengren
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0451416023

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Baseball during the Great Depression of the 1930s galvanized communities and provided a struggling country with heroes. Jewish player Hank Greenberg gave the people of Detroit—and America—a reason to be proud. But America was facing more than economic hardship. Hitler’s agenda heightened the persecution of Jews abroad while anti-Semitism intensified political and social tensions in the U.S. The six-foot-four-inch Greenberg, the nation’s most prominent Jew, became not only an iconic ball player, but also an important and sometimes controversial symbol of Jewish identity and the American immigrant experience. Throughout his twelve-year baseball career and four years of military service, he heard cheers wherever he went along with anti-Semitic taunts. The abuse drove him to legendary feats that put him in the company of the greatest sluggers of the day, including Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Lou Gehrig. Hank’s iconic status made his personal dilemmas with religion versus team and ambition versus duty national debates. Hank Greenberg is an intimate account of his life—a story of integrity and triumph over adversity and a portrait of one of the greatest baseball players and most important Jews of the twentieth century. INCLUDES PHOTOS

Children of the Ashes

Children of the Ashes
Author: Robert Jungk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1963
Genre: Atomic bomb victims
ISBN:

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In The Court of Claims

In The Court of Claims
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781018977065

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