Killings News

Lagos - Recently, the Chairman, Governing Council of the NHRC, Prof. C. Odinkalu, said at a workshop in Abuja, that the Nigerian police executes over 5,000 detainees summarily every year. He said that officers responsible for the killings were never punished

Their faces still haunt us from our paper and cyber pages, even as the days turn into weeks since that awful night at the movies. Most of us probably do not know their names; we probably could not pick them out of a list.

Aurora - Officials said today that the booby-trapped apartment of mass shooting suspect, James Eagan Holmes, was "designed to kill." (Update: video showing disposal of explosives).

Oakland - The New York Times is reporting that according to Oakland's police chief, the former nursing student accused of killing 7 people and wounding 3 others at Oikos University in Oakland, California lined up his victims before shooting them.

Kandahar - Up to 20 U.S. troops have been implicated in the massacre of 16 civilians in Kandahar on Sunday morning, the Afghan parliamentary investigation team reports.

Mogadishu - One week after the death of two World Food Program staff members and an aid worker, two staff members of Doctors Without Borders were killed in the capital of Somali. The government labels the killings as isolated incidents.

Tucson - Arizona’s Republican party is taking conservative compassion to a new level, with the Pima County Republican Party raffling, for $10 per ticket, a Glock 23 handgun, the same type used in Tuscon’s shooting which killed six people.

Oslo - The killer of more than 90 people in Norway planned to prepare for his rampage by drinking expensive French wine and hiring prostitutes, the manifesto he wrote showed on Monday.

The Mindanao massacre saga finally ended Friday with the arrest and detention of Mayor Andal Ampatuan, Jr., a primary suspect in the killing of 57 civilians and journalists in Maguindanao, southern Philippines

Eleven more dead bodies were recovered from mass graves by police investigating the gruesome massacre of civilians and news reporters by at least 100 armed men believed to be supporters of a political clan of Maguindanao, bringing the death toll to 57