In addition, eight citizens of Haiti were executed for cannibalism and child murder in a 1864 trial case that aided in defining and reforming the attitude toward the religion of the nation ever since. Mike Dash of the Smithsonian reports how right Haitians; four woman and four men had been convicted for being guilty of conducting the abduction, murder and cannibalizing of a young twelve year old girl. It was documented that the murder in a small town outside of Port-au-Prince, as a result of a sacrifice to the voodoo gods. During the trial, it was reported that “the use of force to beat confessions out of suspects…all the prisoners had at first refused to speak, thinking that the Voodoo would protect them, and it required the frequent application
