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Alamo Defenders: A Genealogy, the People and Their Words. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press. ISBN 978-0-89015-757-2. Groneman, Bill (2001). Eyewitness to the Alamo. Lanham, MD: Republic of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-55622-846-9. Hatch, Thom (1999). Encyclopedia of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company.
Murdered two children of her lover, first woman sentenced to death in Oregon [9] Murder of Martha Morrison: Portland: 1974-09: 17-year-old girl disappeared from Portland, remains discovered 2015: Jim Bradley: Portland: 1982-02-20: Pro basketball player shot to death in an alley in Portland: Diane Downs: Springfield: 1983-05-19
Map of per capita police killings in the United States in 2018. [1]Below are lists of people killed by law enforcement in the United States, both on duty and off duty. . Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect the
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
Oregon voters amended the Constitution in 1914 to repeal the death penalty, with 50.04% of the vote. The repeal was an initiative of Governor Oswald West. [4] The death penalty was restored, again by constitutional amendment, in 1920. [3] Initially, all executions were performed by hanging; lethal gas was adopted as the method after 1931. [3]
Oregon’s death toll from last weekend’s record-smashing Pacific Northwest heat wave has risen to 116. The state medical examiner Wednesday released an updated list of fatalities from the heat ...
Oregon's wolf population was 175 in 2021 and 173 in 2020, after typically showing double-digit growth in previous years. The main reason population growth has been slow is human-caused deaths.
Health officials announced that a resident of Deschutes County — a rural part of Oregon — was diagnosed with plague, the state's first human case in more than eight years.