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The film is presented as based on real events: [2] [1] [3] [4] the 1990 murders of the parents of 14-year-old Jessica Wiseman. Jessica had her 17-year-old boyfriend, Douglas Christopher Thomas, shoot and kill her parents. Thomas was executed in 2000, when the death penalty for juveniles was still a legal punishment. [5] [6]
France in the early 1930s: teenager Violette lives with her parents, Baptiste Nozière, a train driver, and Germaine Nozière. Unbeknownst to Baptiste, he is not Violette's father, something known only to the mother and daughter. Rebelling against her petit-bourgeois parents, Violette secretly works as a prostitute.
The trial by rack is utterly unknown to the law of England, though once when the dukes of Exeter and Suffolk, and other ministers of Henry VI, had laid a design to introduce the civil (i.e. Roman) law into the kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture, which was called in derision the Duke of ...
Two parents in Washington allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter to death in an apparent "honor killing" attempt after she refused an arranged marriage with an older man, police said ...
Two parents allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter outside her high school in an attempted “honor killing” for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man, according to police.
(The Center Square) – Two Lacey parents accused in the attempted “honor killing” of their 17-year-old daughter last month outside Timberline High School appeared in court on Wednesday. Ihsan ...
Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed (Punjabi and Urdu: شفیلیہ افتخار احمد; 14 July 1986 – 11 September 2003) was a British-Pakistani girl who was murdered by her parents in an honour killing at the age of 17, due to her refusal to accept a forced marriage.
A grand jury has indicted a mother in the 2002 killing of her 2-year-old daughter after cold case investigators discovered that a mistake had been made when the child’s cause of death was ...