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Thomas L. Kirsch II
Thomas L. Kirsch II, born Thomas Lee Kirsch in 1974, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals since 2020.
Thomas L. Ludington
Thomas L. Ludington, born 1953 in Midland, Michigan, is a federal judge on the Eastern District of Michigan since 2006, previously chief judge of Michigan's Forty-Second Circuit Court.
Thomas L. R. Parker
Thomas L. R. Parker, also known as Thomas Lee Robinson Parker, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Tennessee since 2018.
Thomas Langlois Lefroy
Thomas Langlois Lefroy (1776–1869), Irish judge and Tory MP for Dublin University, lord chief justice of Ireland 1852–66, sentenced John Mitchel in 1848, and Jane Austen's youthful flirtation of January 1796.
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is a Congolese militia leader who founded the Union of Congolese Patriots and became the first person convicted by the International Criminal Court.
Thomas M. Durkin
Thomas M. Durkin, also known as Thomas Michael Durkin, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Illinois since 2012, appointed by Barack Obama.
Thomas M. Hardiman
Thomas M. Hardiman, born Thomas Michael Hardiman in 1965, is an American jurist serving as a Third Circuit appeals judge since 2007, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Thomas M. Rose
Thomas M. Rose (born 1948) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of Ohio, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.
Thomas Mooney
Thomas Joseph Mooney (1882–1942), American socialist labor organizer convicted of the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing on perjured testimony, death sentence commuted by Wilson's 1918 commission, pardoned by Governor Culbert Olson on January 7, 1939 after 22 years.
Thomas More
Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), English humanist, author of Utopia and History of King Richard III, Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII from 1529, executed 1535 for refusing the royal supremacy over the Church of England.
Thomas O. Rice
Thomas Owen Rice, born 1960, is a US district judge for the Eastern District of Washington since 2012, appointed by Barack Obama and chief judge from 2016 to 2020.
Thomas P. Barber
Thomas Patrick Barber (born 1966) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2019, after serving as a Florida county and circuit court judge.
Thomas Pitera
Thomas "Tommy Karate" Pitera (born 1954) is a Bonanno crime family hitman convicted in 1992 of six murders and drug trafficking, serving life at USP Big Sandy; a Pete Davidson film recounts his case.
Thomas S. Kleeh
Thomas S. Kleeh is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of West Virginia since 2018, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Thomas S. Zilly
Thomas S. Zilly, born 1935, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington since 2004.
Thomas Silverstein
Thomas Silverstein (1952-2019), Aryan Brotherhood commissioner, killed three inmates and guard Merle Clutts; held 35 years in solitary, longest of any federal prisoner; Tenth Circuit upheld his isolation in 2014.
Thomas T. Cullen
Thomas Tullidge Cullen is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Virginia since 2020, appointed by Donald Trump.
Thomas W. Phillips (federal judge)
Thomas W. Phillips, born 1943 in Oneida, Tennessee, is an American jurist appointed by George W. Bush as a US district judge in Tennessee from 2002 to 2013.
Thomas W. Thrash, Jr.
Thomas W. Thrash, Jr. is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Georgia, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997 and chief judge from 2014 to 2021.
Thousand Oaks shooting
The Thousand Oaks shooting was a November 7, 2018 mass shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, in which 12 people died.
Threat of force (international law)
Threat of force in international law: an express or implied promise to use armed force unless demands are met, prohibited by Article 2(4) UN Charter alongside the use of force, defined through the ICJ's 1996 Nuclear Weapons opinion and Brownlie's ultimatum formula.
Three generations of human rights
Three generations of human rights: Karel Vasak's 1977 classification dividing rights into civil-political (ICCPR), economic-social-cultural (ICESCR), and collective solidarity rights such as development, peace, and a healthy environment.
Three tramps
The three tramps were Harold Doyle, John Gedney, and Gus Abrams, detained by Dallas police near Dealey Plaza after the JFK assassination on November 22, 1963, and photographed being escorted to the Sheriff's office; missing arrest records fueled conspiracy claims until the records surfaced in 1989.
Three-strikes law
Three-strikes law: habitual-offender sentencing statutes imposing doubled or 25-to-life terms after prior serious or violent felonies; enacted in 24 states and federally, 1993-1995; California's 1994 version (Prop 184, amended by Prop 36 in 2012) was the broadest and most used.
Thug Behram (ठग बहराम)
Thug Behram (ठग बेहराम), also Buhram Jemadar, was a Thuggee gang leader of Oudh, India, recorded by James Paton as present at 931 murders (about 125 by his own hands) between 1790 and 1840, strangled with a coin-weighted yellow rumal; the figure and the wider Thuggee narrative are disputed by historians.
Thuggee
Thuggee, the supposed system of ritualized strangulation-robbery of travelers in India, 'discovered' by William Sleeman and suppressed in the 1830s; its reality versus orientalist construction is a major historiographical debate.
Thumbscrew (torture)
Thumbscrew, or thumbikins in Scotland, an early modern European metal vice torture device that crushed thumbs or fingers by turning a screw to force confessions; used until the 1700s, now banned as inherently degrading.
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993), American civil rights lawyer and first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1967-1991); NAACP LDF founder, argued Brown v. Board of Education, won 29 of 32 Supreme Court cases.
Tickle torture
Tickle torture is prolonged non-consensual gargalesis, the intense laughter-inducing form of tickle, applied to restrained victims; documented in WWII reports, it can meet torture and battery definitions despite the victim's involuntary laughter.
Tickle v Giggle
Tickle v Giggle is an Australian Federal Court decision from 2024. It ruled that removing a transgender woman from a women-only app was unlawful gender identity discrimination.