Courts & Judiciary

The Civilian Public Service is a US Government Program That Provided Conscientious Objectors with an Alternative to Military Service During the Second World War.

Courts & Judiciary, Government, History, History, Humanities, Law & Government, Reference, World War / December 12, 2022

Many conscientious objectors were drafted during World War I and under pressure to serve in the military as non-combatants. Others who objected were jailed and court-martialed. Mennonites and other members of historic peace churches requested that Congress allow for an alternative service program that was more considerate of the rights of conscientious objectors in 1940, […]

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The New York Ripper, Richard Cottingham, Convicted of Murdering 12 People, Shared an Office with The Dating Game Killer, Rodney Alcala.

Richard Francis Cottingham was a serial killer and rapist from New York and New Jersey who murdered at least 12 young women and girls between 1967 and 1980. He was also known as The Torso Killer and Times Square Killer. But did you know that Cottingham shared an office with the Dating Game Killer, Rodney