Alfred Bourgeois was a Louisiana truck driver who was convicted in federal court of torturing and killing his two‑year‑old daughter, often referred to in court records as “JG,” in 2002. After a paternity test established he was the child’s father and he was granted temporary custody, prosecutors presented evidence that Bourgeois abused and tortured the toddler over several weeks, including whipping her with an electrical cord, burning the bottoms of her feet with a cigarette lighter, and repeatedly striking her head with a plastic baseball bat, leading to severe injuries. The killing occurred while he was on a trucking delivery to the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station in Texas, where, prosecutors said, he became enraged when the girl tipped over her training potty and slammed her head into the truck’s cab — including the window and dashboard — causing fatal brain injuries. The child died the next day at a hospital from her injuries. A federal jury convicted him of murder in 2004 and unanimously recommended the death penalty, which was carried out by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, on December 11, 2020.

The Anaconda Road Massacre was a deadly labor conflict that took place on April 21, 1920, near Butte, Montana, during a major miners’ strike against the powerful Anaconda Copper Mining Company. As members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Metal Mine Workers Industrial Union picketed along Anaconda Road to demand better wages, an eight‑hour workday, and an end to anti‑union practices, tensions with mine officials and local law enforcement escalated. Deputized mine guards opened fire on the unarmed striking workers gathered outside the Neversweat Mine, shooting at them as they tried to flee; sixteen miners were wounded and one, Tom Manning, was killed. Federal troops were brought in the next day to prevent further violence, but the strike eventually collapsed, and no one was ever held accountable for Manning’s death, leaving the massacre as a stark example of the violent lengths to which industrial interests could go to suppress organized labor in early 20th‑century America.

The Andino bombing was a terrorist attack that occurred on June 17, 2017, at the Centro Andino shopping mall in Bogotá, Colombia, when an improvised explosive device planted in a women’s bathroom detonated in the crowded mall during the afternoon, killing three women — including a 23‑year‑old French volunteer — and injuring nine others. Authorities condemned the blast as an act of terrorism and launched a major investigation, offering rewards for information and arresting several suspects allegedly linked to a small far‑left urban guerrilla group called the People’s Revolutionary Movement (MRP); the group itself denied responsibility for the attack. Colombian leaders, including then‑President Juan Manuel Santos and city officials, vowed not to let the violence derail the country’s ongoing peace process and urged unity in the face of the tragedy.