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Egyptian Vigilantes Target, Shame Sex Harassers

Vigilante groups have sprung up in Egypt to combat the country's chronic sexual harassment problem. Women have long faced catcalls, groping, and assaults on Egypt's streets and police tended to ignore...

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Ex-Cop Executed for 9 Murders

Last-minute appeals weren't enough to save serial killer Manuel Pardo from lethal injection. The cop-turned-killer was executed last night at Florida State Prison for his three-month crime spree in...

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Locals Beat Detroit Man Blamed in Teen's Rape

After a teen with Down syndrome was allegedly raped in Detroit, residents felt police were acting too slowly—so they took matters into their own hands. Using a baseball bat, several neighbors pursued...

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Woman Claims She's Hunting Bus-Driving Rapists

Mexican prosecutors are investigating claims that a woman who killed two bus drivers last week in this northern border city was seeking revenge for alleged sexual abuse of female passengers. A woman...

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Bogus Mandela Interpreter Helped Burn Two Men Alive

Thamsanqa Jantjie has done things a lot worse than making up sign language —including burning two men alive, one of his relatives and three of his friends tell the AP . We already knew that Jantjie had...

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Vigilantes Take Mexico Town in Fight With Cartel

More than 100 vigilantes poured into a western Mexico town yesterday, disarming police and battling with alleged cartel members before eventually taking control of the town of Nueva Italia. Upon...

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Guy Carjacked by Thugs, Shot by Bystander

Want your fellow Americans armed to the teeth? OK, but consider this: A bystander witnessing a carjacking in Houston Saturday night opened fire and missed the assailants but shot the victim in the...

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Mob Burns Man Alive as Vigilante Justice Prevails in Venezuela

The mob didn't know at first what Roberto Bernal had done, but he was running and that was enough. The AP reports dozens of men loitering on the sidewalk next to a supermarket in Caracas, Venezuela,...

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Violence Grows Among Pedophile-Hunting Vigilantes

The show To Catch a Predator may have ended nearly 20 years ago, but it continues to inspire a new generation of increasingly violent vigilantes. A New York Times investigation looks into how groups...

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