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| x Al Capone |
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Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island | Jan 6, 1939 | Nov 16, 1939 |
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s....
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| x Timothy Leary |
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Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island | 1974 |
Dr. Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, advocate of psychedelic drug research, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. An icon of 1960s counterculture,...
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| x G. Gordon Liddy |
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Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island |
George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for the White House Plumbers unit that existed during several years of Richard Nixon's Presidency. Along with E. Howard Hunt, Liddy masterminded the first break-in of the...
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| x Charles Becker |
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Sing Sing |
Charles Becker (July 26, 1870 – July 30, 1915) was a New York City police officer in the 1890s and 1910's and who was tried, convicted and executed for ordering the murder of a Manhattan gambler, Herman Rosenthal. Becker was the first American...
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| x Louis Capone |
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Sing Sing |
Louis Capone (1896 – March 4, 1944) was a New York organized crime figure who became a hitman for the notorious Murder Inc. Louis Capone was not related to the boss of the Chicago Outfit, Al Capone.
Murder, Inc., was a network of Jewish and Italian...
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| x Lucky Luciano |
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Sing Sing |
Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania; November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was a Sicilian-born American mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion of the...
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| x Frank Abbandando |
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Sing Sing |
Frank Abbandando (July 11, 1910 – February 19, 1942), nicknamed "The Dasher", was a New York contract killer who committed many murders as part of the infamous Murder, Inc. gang.
Abbandando was one of twelve children of Lorenzo Abbondondola and...
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| x Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
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Sing Sing |
Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were American communists who were executed in 1953 after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage. The charges were...
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| x Albert Fish |
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Sing Sing |
"Albert" Hamilton Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, and The Boogeyman. A child molester and cannibal, he boasted that he had "had...
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| x Charles Manson |
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Folsom State Prison |
Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was convicted of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders,...
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| Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island | 1956 | 1959 | |||
| x Ralph 'Sonny' Barger | Folsom State Prison |
Ralph Hubert "Sonny" Barger (born October 8, 1938(1938-10-08) in Modesto, California) is a founding member (1957) of the Oakland, California, U.S. chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.
Sonny Barger is also the author of four books: Hell's...
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| x Paris Hilton |
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Century Regional Detention Facility | Jun 5, 2007 | Jun 7, 2007 |
Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American socialite, heiress, media personality, model, singer, author, fashion designer and actress.
Hilton is best known for her appearance on the television series The Simple Life, her several...
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| x John McCain |
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Hanoi Hilton | Oct 26, 1967 | Mar 14, 1973 |
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election.
McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into...
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| x Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr |
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Tower of London |
Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (c. 1198 – March 1, 1244) was the first born son of Llywelyn the Great ("Llywelyn Fawr". His mother Tangwystl probably died in childbirth.
As a boy, Gruffydd was one of the hostages taken by King John of England as a pledge for...
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| x Thomas More |
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Tower of London | Apr 17, 1535 | Jul 6, 1535 |
Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, scholar, author, and statesman.
During his life he gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist, a violent opponent of the Reformation...
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| x Edward V of England |
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Tower of London |
Edward V (4 November 1470 – probably 1483) was King of England from 9 April 1483 until his deposition two months later. His reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who succeeded him as Richard III. Along with...
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| x Margaret of Anjou |
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Tower of London |
Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite d'Anjou; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was the wife of King Henry VI of England. As such, she was Queen consort of England from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471 and Queen consort of France from 1445 to...
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| x Johan Anders Jägerhorn | Tower of London | 1801 |
Johan (Jan) Anders Jägerhorn af Spurila was a Finnish nobleman born in 8 April 1757 in Helsinki county. He was the eldest son of lieutenant colonel Fredrik Anders Jägerhorn and Ulrika Sofia Brunow. Colonel Fredrik Adolf Jägerhorn, vice commander of...
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| x John of Scotland |
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Tower of London | 1296 | 1299 |
John de Balliol (c. 1249 – c. 25 November 1314) was elected King of Scots from 1292 to 1296.
Little of John's early life is known. He was born between 1248 and 1250 at an unknown location, possibilities including Galloway, Picardy and Barnard Castle...
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| x Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York |
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Tower of London |
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York and 1st Duke of Norfolk (17 August 1473 – 1483?) was the sixth child and second son of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville. He was born in Shrewsbury. He was a younger brother of Elizabeth of...
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| x David II of Scotland |
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Tower of London |
David II (Medieval Gaelic: Daibhidh a Briuis, Modern Gaelic: Dàibhidh Bruis) (5 March 1324 – 22 February 1371) was King of Scotland from 7 June 1329 until 22 February 1371.
David II was the elder and only surviving son of Robert I of Scotland and...
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| x John II of France |
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Tower of London |
John II (16 April 1319 – 8 April 1364), called John the Good (French: Jean le Bon), was the King of France from 1350 until his death. He was the second sovereign of the House of Valois and is perhaps best remembered as the king who was vanquished at...
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| x Henry Laurens |
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Tower of London |
Henry Laurens (March 6, 1724 [O.S. February 24, 1723] – December 8, 1792) was an American merchant and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress Laurens...
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| x Elizabeth I of England |
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Tower of London | 1554 | 1554 |
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor...
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| x Walter Raleigh |
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Tower of London | 1603 | 1616 |
Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was a English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, and explorer.
Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine...
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| x Ranulf Flambard |
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Tower of London | 1100 |
Ranulf Flambard, also known as Ralph Flambard or Ranulph Flambard and sometimes Ranulf Passiflamme, (c. 1060–5 September 1128) was a medieval Norman Bishop of Durham and an influential government minister of King William Rufus of England. He was the...
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| x Henry VI of England |
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Tower of London | May 21, 1471 |
Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England 1422–1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realms were governed by regents. Contemporaneously, he was described as a peaceful and pious...
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| x William Penn |
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Newgate Prison |
William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) was an English founder and "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future U.S. State of Pennsylvania. He was known as an early champion of...
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| x Mary Wade |
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Newgate Prison |
Mary Ann Wade (October 5, 1777 – December 17, 1859) was only 11 years old when transported to Australia as the youngest convict aboard the Lady Juliana as part of the Second Fleet. Her family grew to include five generations and over 300 descendants...
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| x Titus Oates |
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Newgate Prison |
Titus Oates (15 September 1649 – 12/13 July 1705) was a 17th-century perjurer who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.
Titus Oates was born in Oakham. His father, Samuel, was the rector of Marsham in...
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| x Lord George Gordon |
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Newgate Prison |
Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 – 12 November 1793) was a politician in the United Kingdom best known for lending his name to the so-called "Gordon Riots" of 1780. A colourful personality, he was born into the Scottish nobility and became a...
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| x Daniel Defoe |
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Newgate Prison | 1703 | 1703 |
Daniel Defoe (c.1659 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped...
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| x Jack Sheppard |
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Newgate Prison |
Jack Sheppard (4 March 1702 – 16 November 1724) was a notorious English robber, burglar and thief of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723, with little more than...
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| x Ben Jonson |
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Newgate Prison |
Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which...
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| x Thomas Malory |
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Newgate Prison |
Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1405 – 14 March 1471) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur. The antiquary John Leland (1506–1552) believed him to be Welsh, but most modern scholarship assumes that he was Sir Thomas Malory of...
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| x Robert Southwell |
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Newgate Prison |
Saint Sir Robert Southwell (c. 1561 – 21 February 1595) was an English Jesuit priest and poet who worked as a missionary in post-Reformation England. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, and became a Catholic martyr. He was born at Horsham...
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| x James MacLaine |
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Newgate Prison |
"Captain" James MacLaine (occasionally "Maclean", "MacLean", or "Maclane") (1724 – 3 October 1750) was a notorious highwayman with his accomplice William Plunkett. He was known as the "Gentleman Highwayman" as a result of his courteous behaviour...
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| x John Law |
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Newgate Prison |
John Law (usually pronounced Jean Lass by contemporary French) (bap. 21 April 1671 – 21 March 1729) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth...
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| x William Kidd |
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Newgate Prison |
William "Captain" Kidd (c. 1645 – May 23, 1701) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. Some modern historians deem his piratical reputation unjust, as there is...
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| x Owen Suffolk |
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Newgate Prison |
Owen Suffolk (4 April 1829 – ? ) an Australian bushranger, poet, confidence-man and author of Days of Crime and Years of Suffering (1867).
Born in comfortable circumstances in Finchley, London, Suffolk was sent to sea as a youth when his father was...
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| x Adolf Hitler |
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Landsberg Prison | Apr 1, 1924 | Dec 1924 |
Adolf Hitler (German pronunciation: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ], 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei,...
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| Stadelheim Prison | Jun 24, 1922 | Jul 27, 1922 | |||
| x Ernst Röhm |
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Stadelheim Prison | Jul 2, 1934 |
Ernst Julius Röhm, (November 28, 1887 – July 2, 1934) was an Imperial German army officer and later a Nazi leader. He was a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA), the Nazi Party militia and later was the SA commander. In 1934, he...
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| x Marion Jones |
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Federal Medical Center, Carswell | Mar 7, 2008 |
Marion Lois Jones, also known as Marion Jones-Thompson (born October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, California), is a former world champion track and field athlete. She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia but has since agreed...
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| x Fidel Castro |
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Presidio Modelo | 1955 |
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban politician, one of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until...
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| x Angelo Fusco | Portlaoise Prison |
Angelo Fusco (b. 2 September 1956 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who escaped during his 1981 trial for killing a Special Air Service (SAS) officer in 1980....
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| x Paul Magee | Portlaoise Prison |
Paul "Dingus" Magee (born 30 January 1948 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who escaped during his 1981 trial for killing a member of the Special Air Service ...
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| x Michael McKevitt | Portlaoise Prison |
Michael McKevitt (b. 4 September 1949) is an Irish republican who was convicted of directing terrorism as the leader of the paramilitary organisation, the Real IRA.
McKevitt, a native of County Louth joined the Provisional IRA during the outbreak of...
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| x Charles Colson |
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Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery | Jun 21, 1974 | Jan 31, 1975 |
Charles "Chuck" Wendell Colson (born October 16, 1931, in Boston, Massachusetts) was the Special Counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973.
He was commonly named as one of the Watergate Seven, but was never charged with, or prosecuted...
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| x John N. Mitchell |
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Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery |
John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913–November 9, 1988) was the first United States Attorney General ever to be convicted of illegal activities and was imprisoned. He also served as campaign director for the Committee to Re-elect the President,...
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| x Yu Kikumura |
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ADX Florence | Apr 18, 2007 |
Yū Kikumura (菊村 憂, Kikumura Yū, born 1947 in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan) was a member of the Japanese Red Army, an armed militant organization.
Police arrested Kikumura in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam in 1986 when they found him carrying a bomb in...
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| x José Padilla |
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ADX Florence |
José Padilla (born October 18, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York), also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, is a United States citizen convicted of aiding terrorists.
Padilla was arrested in Chicago on May 8, 2002, and was detained as a...
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| x Theodore Kaczynski |
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ADX Florence |
Theodore John Kaczynski (pronounced /kəˈzɪnski/; born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber (University and Airline Bomber), is an American mathematician, social critic, and murderer who carried out a campaign of mail bombings, as well as a...
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| x Ramzi Yousef |
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ADX Florence |
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef or Ramzi Mohammed Yousef (also transliterated as Ramzi Yusuf, Ramzi Youssef) (Arabic: رمزي يوسف), birth name possibly Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim (Arabic: عبد الباسط كريم) and also known by dozens of aliases, was born in...
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| x John Walker Lindh |
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ADX Florence |
John Phillip Walker Lindh (born February 9, 1981) was captured as an enemy combatant during the United States' 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. An American citizen, he is now serving a 20-year prison sentence in connection with his participation in...
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| x Richard Colvin Reid |
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ADX Florence |
Richard Colvin Reid (also known as Abdul Raheem and often referred to in the media as the shoe bomber) (born August 12, 1973) is an individual convicted on charges of terrorism and currently serving a life sentence in the United States for...
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| x Ahmed Ressam |
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ADX Florence |
Ahmed Ressam (Arabic: احمد رسام; also Benni Noris or the Millennium Bomber; born May 19, 1967(1967-05-19)) was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999.
Ressam was born...
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| x Wali Khan Amin Shah | ADX Florence |
Wali Khan Amin Shah (Arabic: والي خان أمين شاه) (also known as Osama Turkestani, Osama Azmurai, and Grabi Ibrahim Hahsen) was a man who had a role in the foiled Bojinka plot. He was convicted of terrorism, and has been imprisoned on these charges...
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| x Terry Nichols |
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ADX Florence |
Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is a U.S. Army veteran who conspired with Timothy McVeigh in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 19, 1995. The Oklahoma City Bombing, by which the event...
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| x Robert Hanssen |
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ADX Florence |
Robert Philip Hanssen (born 18 April 1944) is a former American FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for more than twenty years. Despite the fact that he revealed highly sensitive security...
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| x Wadih el-Hage |
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ADX Florence |
Wadih el-Hage (Arabic: وديع الحاج, Wadīḥ al-Ḥāja) alias Abd'al Sabur (عبد الصبور, ‘Abd aṣ-Ṣabūr) alias the Manager is a former al-Qaeda member who is serving life imprisonment in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy...
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