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Heo Heon
Heo Heon (허헌; 許憲, 1884 or 1885 – 1951) was a Korean lawyer and independence activist who defended the March 1st Movement leaders and later served in North Korea.
Heqin (和亲)
Heqin (和亲) was the Chinese marriage-alliance policy of sealing peace with frontier states, first applied to the Xiongnu around 200 BCE, with 13 Han and 23 Tang cases, ending as state policy in the Song era.
Herb Baumeister
Herb Baumeister, also suspected as the I-70 Strangler, was an Indiana businessman linked to about 10,000 charred remains at Fox Hollow Farm, Westfield; he died by suicide in Canada in 1996, and DNA work since 2022 has identified over a dozen victims.
Herbert Mullin
Herbert William Mullin (1947–2022), American serial killer who murdered 13 people in Northern California, October 1972 to February 1973, claiming human sacrifice to prevent earthquakes; convicted of 10 murders, denied parole, died in prison.
Hercules (gangster)
Hercules (Rosario de Marçal, also Marcal/Marshal) is an Indonesian preman gangster and political broker from East Timor who ran Jakarta's Tanah Abang protection rackets in the 1990s and later founded GRIB Jaya, closely tied to President Prabowo Subianto.
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, alias El Lazca, El Verdugo, or Z-3, born 1975, was leader of Los Zetas and Gulf Cartel security chief; he built the cartel's independence and was killed by Mexican marines in Progreso, Coahuila, on 7 October 2012, his body later stolen from a funeral home.
Heriberto Seda
Heriberto Seda, the New York Zodiac or Zodiac II, killed three and wounded six in 1990-1993 shootings, sent Zodiac-signed letters, was caught in 1996 via his confession handwriting, and remains imprisoned.
Herman J. Weber
Herman J. Weber, also known as Herman Jacob Weber, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge in Ohio, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1985.
Hermann Kantorowicz
Hermann Kantorowicz (1877–1940) was a German jurist who co-founded the free law movement, argued that judges create law to fill statutory gaps, and died in exile in Cambridge.
Hermesmann v. Seyer
Hermesmann v. Seyer (State ex rel. Hermesmann v. Seyer, 252 Kan. 646, 847 P.2d 1273) is a 1993 Kansas Supreme Court case holding a 13-year-old statutory-rape victim liable for child support, consent being irrelevant in civil paternity proceedings.
Hernán D. Vera
Hernán D. Vera, also known as Hernán Diego Vera, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2023.
Hezekiah Oladipo Davies
Hezekiah Oladipo Davies (1905–1988) was a Nigerian lawyer, businessman, and nationalist politician who cofounded the Nigerian Youth Movement in 1934 and served as a federal minister.
Hi-Fi murders
Hi-Fi murders: April 22, 1974 torture-murders during a robbery at the Hi-Fi Shop, Ogden, Utah; airmen Dale Pierre Selby and William Andrews executed (1987, 1992) after Utah's longest death-row appeals; Keith Roberts convicted of robbery only.
Hideki Tojo (東條英機)
Hideki Tojo (東條英機), 1884–1948, Japanese general and prime minister October 1941–July 1944 who led Japan into the Pacific War; convicted as a Class A war criminal at the Tokyo Trial and hanged December 23, 1948.
Hierarchy of international law in national legal orders
The hierarchy of international law in national legal orders is set by each state's constitutional arrangements, not by international law itself, which cannot determine its own domestic applicability.
High Court of Australia
The High Court of Australia, also called the Australian High Court, is Australia's highest court, created by the Constitution in 1901 to decide constitutional questions and hear final appeals.
High Court of Justice
The High Court of Justice is a senior court of England and Wales, created by the Judicature Acts 1873-1875 within the Supreme Court of Judicature. Originally five divisions, now King's Bench, Family, and from 2026 the Business and Property Division; it handles major civil cases and judicial review.
High courts of India
The High Courts of India are the 25 highest State-level courts below the Supreme Court, headed by a Chief Justice each, exercising writ and superintendence powers, established from 1862 (Calcutta, Bombay, Madras) onward.
High crimes and misdemeanors
High crimes and misdemeanors: the Article II, section 4 U.S. constitutional standard for impeachment and removal of the President, Vice President, and civil officers, borrowed from English parliamentary practice and covering political abuses of office beyond indictable crime.
High Seas Treaty
The High Seas Treaty, also known as the BBNJ Agreement or Global Ocean Treaty, is a United Nations treaty protecting marine life on the high seas, adopted in 2023.
High treason in the United Kingdom
High treason in the United Kingdom is the statutory crime of disloyalty to the Crown, defined by the Treason Act 1351, punishable by life imprisonment since 1998, last prosecuted against William Joyce in 1946.
High Treason Incident
The High Treason Incident (大逆事件, Taigyaku Jiken) was a Japanese state prosecution of 1910–1911 in which 26 socialists and anarchists were tried for plotting to assassinate Emperor Meiji.
High-altitude nuclear explosion
High-altitude nuclear explosion (HANE): detonation of a nuclear weapon tens to hundreds of kilometers up, producing EMP, artificial auroras, and radiation belts; tested by US Operation Fishbowl (Starfish Prime, 1962) and Soviet Project K, banned by the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty.
Highland Clearances
The Highland Clearances: evictions of Highland and Island tenants, c.1760–1860, for sheep farming; Sutherland clearances, Patrick Sellar, Great Highland Famine, Crofters War, and the 1886 Crofters Act.
Highway of Tears
Highway of Tears is a 724-kilometer stretch of Yellowhead Highway 16 in British Columbia. It is known for dozens of Indigenous women who have gone missing or been murdered since 1969.
Highwayman
A highwayman was a mounted robber who held up travelers on public roads, peaking in 18th-century Britain; the word dates to 1617, the crime declined with better roads and policing, and the last mounted robbery came in 1831.
Hilda G. Tagle
Hilda G. Tagle, born 1946 in Corpus Christi, Texas, is an American jurist who served as a federal district judge in Texas from 1998 to 2012.
Hill v Church of Scientology of Toronto
Hill v Church of Scientology of Toronto is a 1995 Supreme Court of Canada decision that upheld a jury's libel award to Ontario Crown attorney S. Casey Hill.
Hillside Strangler
Hillside Strangler, also the Hillside Stranglers: cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, who raped and murdered ten women and girls in Los Angeles, 1977-1978; Bianchi's failed multiple-personality defense and 2025 parole denial distinguish the case.
Hind Rajab Foundation
The Hind Rajab Foundation is a Brussels-based Belgian non-profit founded September 2024, named for a girl killed in Gaza, that files universal jurisdiction war-crimes complaints against Israeli soldiers worldwide and at the ICC.