Alexander Pearce was an Irish convict and thief who was sentenced to seven years of hard labor on Sarah Island, the Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast of Tasmania in March 1822. Shortly after his arrival, Pearce and seven other inmates escaped and became fugitives. Pearce later confessed to killing...
YouTube nearly banned my account after I uploaded a video I produced called the Beautiful Suicide of Evelyn McHale. If you haven’t heard the story, I recommend you at least looking at the famous photo surrounding it. Anyway, the Gods of YouTube apparently have a firm stance against self-destruction...
Public Spectacle In a pamphlet called Reflections of the Guillotine, the author Albert Camus discusses how frightful it is to witness an execution by a guillotine. Camus claims that his father once attended a public execution by the guillotine, and the sight was so appalling that it haunted his dreams...
Belle’s Inferno Joe Maxson knew how lucky he was to be alive, and had he not fixed that second bedroom window just two weeks before… well, he’d be a dead man right now. Death came dangerously close in the wee hours of April 28, 1908, bringing along the...
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