public safety

On 19 January 2025, the city of Aschaffenburg in Hesse, Germany, was struck by a brutal knife attack in broad daylight. A man killed at least two people and wounded several others at multiple public locations in the city centre. The perpetrator was apprehended by police the same day.

Aileen Carol Wuornos, convicted of murdering six men and suspected in a seventh case, was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002, in the United States. The former sex worker claimed self-defense in all her murders, stating she killed in response to rape and attempted rape.