• Wayne Boden, a Canadian serial killer and rapist, was the first man to be convicted with the help of forensic odontological evidence in North America?

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Honor killing

• women in some societies may be subject to honor killing for violation of namus?

Death penalty

• Texas politician Maury Maverick, Jr. killed a bill to sentence convicted communists to death by adding a poison pill amendment to sentence suspected communists to life imprisonment?
• Antoni Heda, one of the most successful partisan commanders in Armia Krajowa Polish resistance in World War II, was sentenced to death on 7 consecutive charges by the Polish communists' government?
• Björn Ferry, winner of the Men's pursuit biathlon event at the 2010 Winter Olympics, has suggested that athletes who use banned substances be given the death penalty?
• Herman Ashworth was the fourth person to drop his appeals since the U.S. state of Ohio resumed the death penalty in 1999?
• in Tennard v. Dretke, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it a cruel and unusual punishment to ignore the defendant's mental retardation in sentencing the death penalty?
• in the wake of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Stephen A. Mikulak sponsored a bill, later signed into law, that would impose the death penalty for terrorists who kill anyone in New Jersey?
• the only remaining instance of active use of the death penalty in Europe is in capital punishment in Belarus?