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From America's Top Killing Machine For the better part of a century, the machine most likely to kill an American has been the automobile.Car crashes killed 33,561 people in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Firearms killed 32,251 people in the United States in 2011, the most recent year for which the Centers ...
Please add Geni profiles for our drowned ones to this project. Additional demographic data is especially appreciated as added resources.==Drowning==From Wikipedia Drowning is defined as respiratory impairment from being in or under a liquid. It is further classified by outcome into: death , ongoing health problems and no ongoing health problems . Using the term "near drowning" to refer to those...
Eldercide is defined as homicide in the age group ≥60 years. Eldercide, the death of a person aged >60 years due to intentional injuries inflicted by another person, is an understudied public health and social problem. The global average Eldercide rate is 4.5/100 000. Some countries have a far higher rate, for example South Africa's rate is 25.2/100 000 for people aged >60 years, compared wit...
Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. From About Lynching by Robert L. Zangrando Lynching is the practice whereby a mob--usually several dozen or several hundred persons--takes the law into its own hands in order to injure and kill a person accused of so...
Homicide Please try to start sub projects with the actual cause of death. {note from morel : I am adding a few profiles here, until we establish how we breakdown homicide death. After that, I will move those profiles into their applicable subprojects.} related projects Assassinated (36 profiles) Family killing family Killed by a Mob Lynched Lynchings in Kentucky Killed...
Assassination is the murder of a prominent person, often but not always a political leader or ruler, usually for political reasons or payment.An assassination may be prompted by religious, political, or military motives; it is an act that may be done for financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from a desire to acquire fame or notoriety, or because of a military, security or insurgent group's com...
A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others. Stabbing differs from slashing or cutting in that the motion of the object used in a stabbing generally moves perpendicular to and directly into the victim's body, rather than being drawn across i...
Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and as the auxiliary lethal mechanism in hangings in the event the neck does not break. Strangling does not have to be fatal; limited or interrupted strangling is practised in erotic asphyxia, in...
=Unnatural death= is a category used by coroners or Medical Examiners and vital statistics specialists for classifying all human deaths not properly describable as death by natural causes. Hence it would include events such as:* accident * Drug Overdose * attacked by an animal * killed by a mob * execution * homicide * medical error * misadventure* State-sponsored mass murder
Family killing family==Do you have ancestors who have killed each other? This could be on purpose or by accident. I have found several of these tragedies in my own tree. ===notes===A familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which at least one spouse and one or more children are killed, or in which a parent or parents and possibly other relatives such as siblings and grandparents are ...
This project is for people who were stabbed, speared, or impaled to death.
==Indian Massacres Cultural clashes between European settlers and Natives lasted for over four hundred years, from isolated incidents to large scale, organized wars. If the casualty was a civilian, of any background, our goal is to capture their death in a project on this list of “Indian Massacres.” So please add profiles to the massacre projects listed below; those projects are also found in t...
Murderers and Serial Killers One never knows what's in a persons mind when they kill. Whether it's premeditated or the heat of the moment. It is the moments prior to killing someone that triggers them to kill. The difference between a murderer and a serial killer is when a serial killer murders more than three times in different sets of time in crime and don't know their victims. A murderer kil...
Please add those who died in a mass shooting or as a result of injuries sustained from a mass shooting.== A mass shooting is an incident involving multiple victims of firearms-related violence. Most mass shootings happen in the United States, which has more mass shootings than any country. The United States' Congressional Research Service acknowledges that there is not a broadly accepted defini...
Cut-throats can be of homicidal, suicidal or accidental origin. In cases of death from a cut-throat, distinguishing the cause is one of the important functions in crime investigation. The features that differentiate suicidal and homicidal cut-throat injuries are the presence of hesitation cuts, depth of wound, signs of struggle, edges of the wound, etc. In the case of a suicidal cut-throat, it ...
This is an "umbrella" project. Please do not add profiles; please do start related projects, and index them below. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord ActonPower kills; absolute power kills absolutely.-- powerkills website ===Mass murder by a state===From Wikipedia Mass murder may also be defined as the intentional and indiscriminate murder of a large number o...