Category: True Crime
Lawmakers, laws and those who break them.
Posted on October 7, 2018
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Execution has long been part of criminal history, society’s ultimate sanction for the very worst offenders. Less enthusiastic supporters regard it as a necessary evil and a deterrent even while acknowledging its distasteful nature. Opponents believe it no deterrent at all, that it’s applied…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: capital punishment, condemned, crime, crime and punishment, crime history, death, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, death warrant, detectives, discrimination, electric chair, electrocute, electrocuted, Ephie Foster, executed, execution, executions, gallows, Grady Jarratt, History, Jimmy Thompson, justice, law, Louisiana, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Marvin Wiggins, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison, prisoners, racism, regular or extra crispy, Sam Jones, St Martinville, true crime, USA, Vincent Venezia, Willie Francis
Posted on September 18, 2018
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It’s a fact that, for all their ruthlessness and guile, murderers can and do make the most idiotic mistakes. Louisa Merrifield was certainly one of them. Born in 1906, Merrifield was a liar, a fraudster, a cheat and ultimately a murderer. Today in 1953…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: Blackpool, Blackpool Poisoner, capital punishment, condemned, condemned cell, David Maxwell Fyfe, death, death sentence, executed, execution, executioner, executioners, executions, gallows, ghost, ghosts, hanged, hanging, hangman, haunted, haunts, Home Office, Louisa Merrifield, Manchester, murder, murdered, murderer, paranormal, phosphorous, poison, poisoner, poisoning, reprieve, reprieved, Robert Leslie Stewart, Rodine, Sarah Ricketts, Strangeways Prison, yellow phosphorous
Posted on September 13, 2018
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It’s common to find ‘Peachtree Bandit’ Frank Dupre, armed robber and murderer executed on September 1, 1921 with Luke McDonald, listed as the last man to hang in Georgia. He wasn’t. That was Arthur Meyers, a murderer hanged at Augusta on June 17, 1931…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1924, 1998, Arthur Meyer, capital punishment, Central State Prison Farm, crime, crime and punishment, criminal history, death, death penalty, death sentence, executed, execution, gallows, gas chamber, Georgia, Georgia State Prison, hanging, History, Howard Hinton, Jackson, John Eldon Smith, Lena baker, lethal injection, Luke McDonald, Milledgeville, murder, murdered, murderer, old sparky, Peachtree Bandit, prison, Reidsville, ride the lightning, true crime
Posted on September 10, 2018
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The dawn on September 11, 1977 dawned damp and grey for the citizens of Marseilles, especially those residing in Les Baumettes Prison. All the inmates (and some of the staff) were were in a dark mood as they contemplated the rising of the…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: abolition, beheaded, beheading, burreaux, capital punishment, Charles Henri Sanson, commutation, death, Death Alley, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, death warrant, executed, execution, executioner, executioners, executions, France, French, guillotine, History, Les Baumettes, les bourreaux, Marcel Chevalier, Marseilles, Nicolas jacques Pelletier, sentence of death, stay of execution, toilette du condamne
Posted on September 8, 2018
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A long, long way as it turned out. When Vere Goold took his own life on this day in 1909 he was far from Tipperary (his ancestral home) and everything else he’d ever known. Once the son of a prominent Irish family, a talented…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: commutation, commuted, crime, crime and punishment, death sentence, devil's island, France, French, French Guiana, History, Ireland, murder, murdered, prison, reprieve, sport, steamer trunk, tennis, Tipperary, Wimbledon
Posted on August 28, 2018
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“This is Orson Welles speaking from London. The Black Museum, repository of death… Here, in this grim stone structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide where everyday objects, a piece of wire, a chemist’s flask, a silver…
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1950's, 1952, 1953, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1994, 2015, 2016, archive, BBC, Black Museum, Citizen Kane, crime, crime and punishment, Crime Museum, drama, dramatisation, dramatised, entertainment, History, internet, media, movies, murder, murdered, murderers, Museum of London, online, Orson Welles, podcast, podcasters, podcasts, radio, Scotland Yard, true crime, USA, War of the Worlds, Waterloo
Posted on August 24, 2018
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When 25 witnesses, mostly reporters, gathered in the basement death chamber at Illinois’s Cook County Jail, they couldn’t have known they were gathering there for the last time. Decades down the line Illinois hacks would gather again for the same reason, but in a…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1962, capital punishment, Charles Justice, Chicago, Cook County, Cook County Jail, crime, crime and punishment, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, executed, execution, executions, Illinois, James Dukes, John Wayne Gacy, Joliet, lethal injection, Menard, murder, Ohio, old sparky, Plato, Stateville, Stephen King, The Green Mile, true crime, Warden Jack Johnson
Posted on August 22, 2018
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“The Bagne is a charnel house, a mass grave, running from syphilis to tuberculosis, with all the tropical diseases one can imagine (carrying malaria, ankylosis, amoebic dysentery, leprosy, etc.), all destined to work hand in hand with an Administration whose task it is to…
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Category: History, True CrimeTags: 1852, 1938, 1946, 1953, 1964, Albert Londres, Alfred Dreyfus, anti-semitism, Brest, brutality, Cascade, Cayenne, Charvein, cholera, convict hulks, crime, crime and punishment, Crique Rouge, death, devil's island, disease, Dustin Hoffman, dysentery, Emile Zola, executioner, France, Francois Lagrange, French, French Guiana, Gaston Monnerville, Godebert, guillotine, hard labour, Henri Charriere, History, Hollywood, Iles du Salut, Indochina, Indochinese, Inini, J'accuse!, justice, Kilo 40, Kilometre 42, malaria, malnutrition, Maroni, Martinique, movies, Napoleon III, on this day, overwork, Papillon, Paul Roussenq, Penal Administration, penal colonies, penal colony, prison, prisoners, prisons, punishment, Rene Belbenoit, Route Zero, Royale, Saint Joseph, Saint Laurent, South America, Steve Mcqueen, Toulon, tourists, transportation, true crime, typhoid
Posted on August 18, 2018
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If you’re a fan of Clint Eastwood then 1974’s ‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot’ distributed by United Artists, is probably in your DVD collection. Not one of his better-known movies and perhaps not one of his best, but well worth watching all the same. The…
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Category: History, Odds And Ends, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 20 millimeter cannon, 20 millimetre cannon, Attica, Attica riot, Brinks, burglary, Canada, Clint Eastwood, crime, FBI, FBI Ten Most Wanted, Geoffrey Lewis, George Kennedy, Heaven's Gate, Jack Franck, Jeff Bridges, joel Singer, Lahti, Lahti cannon, larceny, Michael Cimino, Montreal, New York, Plattsburgh, Quebec, robbery, Syracuse, Ten Most Wanted, The Deer Hunter, theft, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, true crime, United Artists, Virginia, West End Gang
Posted on August 15, 2018
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August 15, 1963 was an historic day in New York’s penal history, although nobody involved knew it at the time. New York’s lawmakers didn’t know it. the Warden of New York’s infamous Sing Sing Prison (now the Ossining Correctional Facility) didn’t know. Dow Hover,…
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Category: Odds And Ends, True CrimeTags: Americans, botched, Boxing, capital punishment, condemned cell, convicted, conviction, court, courtroom, crime, crime and punishment, crime of the century, death, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, defence, electric chair, executed, execution, executioner, executions, FBI, Golden Age, judges, justice, law and order, lawyers, lethal injection, miscarriage of justice, murder, murderer, New York, not guilty, old sparky, pop culture, prison, prosecutor, robbers, shot, Sing Sing, true crime, United States, wrongly convicted
Posted on August 13, 2018
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As regular readers are aware, I cover true crime here and the death penalty is a regular feature. Being an abolitionist, it’s with some small satisfaction that we’re going to look at Britain’s last executions. To the minute, if you happen to be reading…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: acquittal, acquitted, Albert Pierrepoint, Britain, British, capital punishment, condemned cell, convicted, conviction, court, courtroom, crime, crime and punishment, crime of the century, cruel and unusual, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, defence, executed, execution, executioner, executions, gallows, guilty, hanged, hanging, hangman, History, law and order, lawyers, liar, lies, miscarriage of justice, murder, murderer, not guilty, prison, prosecution, prosecutor, robbers, robbery, true crime, UK, unconstitutional, United States
Posted on August 11, 2018
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b “We are looking forward to great things from Alcatraz.” – Attorney-General Homer Cummings at the official opening in 1934. “Alcatraz was never no good for nobody.” – Convict Frank Weatherman, Number AZ1576, the last convict admitted to The Rock, on its closure in…
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Category: History, True CrimeTags: Al Capone, Alcatraz, Alvin Karpis, America's Devil's Island, Atlanta, Baby Face Nelson, Barker Gang, Bastille by the Bay, Battle of Alcatraz, Bonnie and Clyde, Botany Bay, Bugs Moran, California, Crime Wave, D Block, Dark Hole, devil's island, FBI, Floyd Hamilton, Frank Bolt, Frank Weatherman, Golden Gate, Hellcatraz, Illinois, Indiana, Isle of no return, James Johnston, John Dillinger, John Paul Chase, Joplin, Machine Gun Kelly, Marion, military prison, Minnesota, Missouri, National Park Service, Native Americans, Pacific, penitentiary, Pretty Boy Floyd, prison, Ray Hamilton, Roy Gardner, San Francisco Bay, solitary, solitary confinement, St. Paul, Texas, The Rock, United States, War on Crime, Warden, Warden Johnston, Yeggmen, Yeggs
