A total stop in blood flow will make you pass out really quickly; in fact a sudden decrease in blood flow to the brain can easily cause one to faint even without the heart stopping. permalink embed
The teen girl who was convicted of luring her ex-boyfriend to his death and sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder will get a new trial after an appellate court deemed her taped confession inadmissible because of the way police read her her Miranda rights.
South Africa: Pistorius Meant to Shoot His Girlfriend, Her Parents Assert. Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend deliberately, her parents, Barry and June Steenkamp, said in their first public comments against a South African court ruling in her killing. Mr. Pistorius, a Paralympic gold medalist, was found guilty of culpable homicide, the equivalent of manslaughter, last September in the death of Reeva Steenkamp, a model.