After completing a 236 ft dive, Nicholas Mevoli surfaced, gave a thumbs up, then passed out. He never regained consciousness and died from pulmonary edema
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In 1943, SS troops and Nazi collaborators wiped out nearly the entire Belarusian town of Khatyn. Only 8 people survived. This is a statue dedicated to the massacre’s only adult survivor. He’d regained consciousness afterwards and found his burned son, who is said to have died in his arms.
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Xavier Lopez and Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, both 10, posing with their honor roll certificates at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Two hours later they would both be killed by a gunman who entered their school, fatally shooting nineteen students and two teachers.
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A view of the 61 defendants at a mass trial for Mauthausen concentration camp personnel. The trial would be one of the deadliest. Not only was everyone found guilty, they were also directly implicated in at least one murder, with some having thousands of victims. Only 12 of them avoided execution.
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Mugshots taken at Tuol Sleng or S-21, a former school turned into an execution center during the Cambodian genocide. Between the estimated 18,000-20,000 victims incarcerated at S-21, there were only 12 known survivors
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SS camp physician Eduard Krebsbach gives one last look at the camera before he is executed. During his time at Mauthausen, Krebsbach presided over the murders of nearly 1000 prisoners. The victims were killed with gasoline injections. Inmates nicknamed him “Dr. Injection” (Landsberg Prison, 1947)
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John Sharpe gives crocodile tears on live tv begging for the return of his wife and child. John had murdered them both with a spear gun and disposed of the bodies in Australia in 2004
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An Iranian death row inmate breaks down after being reprieved at the last moment. The convict, a convicted murderer, had his life spared by his victim’s mother seconds before he was due to die. The convict was crying and begging her for mercy when the woman suddenly had a change of heart (2014)
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Bruno Tesch (left), a chemist, entrepreneur, and co-inventor of pesticide Zyklon B, goes on trial with two coworkers for selling his invention to the Nazis, knowing how it would be used. The men are accused of letting millions of people die so they could get rich (Hamburg, 1946)
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These are the prices of slaves at an estate sale in 1847
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3-year old Amanda Conklin looks at her father when asked who killed her mother (L.A. Times, 1985)
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The Mask Worn by Edward Paisnel, the Notorious ‘Beast of Jersey’ When Attacking His Victims, c 1957
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A photo of July 4th parade mass shooter Robert Crimo being arrested. He is believed to have shot 31 people, killing six of them, yesterday in Illinois.
