RussianThunder Russia and USA
02/03/19 8:09 pm
THE EXECUTION OF KARLA FAYE TUCKER
Of all historical events today, this one does not rank high on the radar but it’s still interesting. Not for the crime, she killed two people with a pickaxe while she and her friends were robbing them.
The product of an extra-marital affair, no supervision as a kid, fell into drink and drugs, no education.....she was convicted of murder in Texas and sentenced to death to 1984. However, those 15 years between conviction and execution were important. In that time, she reformed. Appeals from everyone from the pope to the warden and the brother of a victim to the US Speaker of the House fell on deaf ears. In the end, she was executed.
This interested me because it brings up what punishment is and what prison is. Is it to reform people or an eye for an eye style of justice. Can a condemned person reform? Are we then executing what they were or what they are? Can it be both? George W Bush refused to pardon her. Does he believe in redemption?
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RussianThunder Russia and USA
02/03/19 7:41 pm
THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson board a plane in Mason City, Iowa. Disgruntled with their buses breaking down and impatient, Holly had chartered the plane. There seem to be several versions of what happened but most agree that Ritchie Valens got the flu and took a seat on the plane. Some versions have this seat originally belonging to Waylon Jennings. Others have Dion DiMucci flipping a coin with Valens or Richardson. However, the end result was three rock stars and a 21 year old pilot named Roger Peterson took off from Mason City bound for the next venue in Moorhead, Minnesota.
The plane took off normally from runway 17 (today's runway 18) at 12:55 am Central Time on Tuesday, February 3. The planes owner, Hubert Dwyer witnessed the take-off from a platform outside the control tower.
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RussianThunder Russia and USA
02/03/19 7:16 pm
3 February
Emperor Ping passes away in 6 CE. In 1377, more than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are killed by the Condottieri (papal armed forces) in the "Cesena Bloodbath". In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south. The colony of Massachusetts, in 1690, issues the first paper money in the Americas. Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily in 1840. In 1783, Spain recognizes United States independence. Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in 1787 in Petersham, Massachusetts. A British military force, in 1807, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
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