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Tennessee Department of Correction. Retrieved on 2023-10-25. 'I did not kill them' condemned man says. The Tennessean, February 3, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-02-04. 'I commend my life into your hands' Tenn. inmate sings hymns as execution is carried out. Fox 17 Nashville. Retrieved on 2019-05-17.
After Alexander's death the region was absorbed into the Seleucid Empire and became known as Coele-Syria. In 64 BC, the region was conquered by a Roman army under general Pompey and became a part of the Roman state. Christianity was introduced to the coastal plain of Lebanon from neighboring Galilee, already in the 1st century. The region, as ...
The salvage excavations after 1993 have yielded new insights into the layout and history of this period of Beirut's history. Public architecture included several areas and buildings. [16] Mid-1st-century coins from Berytus bear the head of Tyche, goddess of fortune; [17] on the reverse, the city's symbol appears: a dolphin entwines an anchor.
A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row more than five decades ago. Now, the world’s longest-serving death row ...
The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the 16–18 September 1982 killing of between 1,300 and 3,500 civilians—mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias —in the city of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. It was perpetrated by the Lebanese Forces, one of the main Christian militias in Lebanon, and supported by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF ...
Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia. 10 years, 115 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois. Robert Gregory Bowers.
The Beirut Memorial is a memorial to the 241 American peacekeepers—220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers—killed in the October 23, 1983 Beirut barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. It is located outside the gate of Camp Gilbert H. Johnson , a satellite camp of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune , in Jacksonville, North Carolina .
The Lebanese Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 150,000 fatalities [5] and led to the exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon.