Category: True Crime
Lawmakers, laws and those who break them.
Posted on November 27, 2018
by robertwalsh1975
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I recently had a brief Twitter conversation with a fellow scribe at Crime Traveller and these gentlemen came up therein, so I thought their story might be interesting to look at in more detail. ‘The Executor of High Works’ was a grandiose title for…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1791, 1792, 1939, 1946, 1953, 1977, 1981, bourreau, bourreaux, capital punishment, Charles Henri Sanson, crime, crime and punishment, criminal, criminal history, criminals, death, Death Alley, death penalty, death sentence, death warrant, devil's island, executed, execution, executioner, France, French Guiana, French Guyana, French Revolution, Guiana, guillotine, guillotined, Guyana, Henri Clasiot, History, Isidore Hespel, Les Baumettes, les bourreaux, Man from Paris, Marseilles, Monsieur de Paris, murder, National Assembly, Papillon, Penal Administration, Sanson, Sanson family, the man from paris, true crime
Posted on November 4, 2018
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Originally posted on Crime Scribe:
? It’s been quite some time since I last posted ere, but I have been extremely busy with paid work and earning a living. Part of that has been writing my first book. Criminal Curiosities is a collection of…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: capital punishment, crime, crime and punishment, Crime Wave, criminal, criminal history, criminals, criminology, death penalty, Death Row, electric chair, electrocute, electrocuted, gallows, gangs, gangster, gangsters, Gee Jon, guillotine, Han van Meegeren, hanged, hanging, hangman, Hermann Goering, History, Holland, Ireland, Irene Schroeder, Lincoln, murder, murdered, murderer, murderers, Netherlands, Nicolas jacques Pelletier, Paul Jawarski, Pennsylvania, poison, prison, punishment, robbery bank robber, Sadamichi Hirasawa, State Electrician, true crime, UK, Unit 731, William Horry, William Kemmler, William MArwood, writing
Posted on November 3, 2018
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Born on April 6, 1937 in Oildale, California, Merle Haggard’s troubles started early. His father died which in 1945 affected him greatly. From then until 1960, he was in and out of trouble. Mostly in it. School truancy, theft, burglary, robbery, passing bad checks,…
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1961, Bakersfield, California, California Highway Patrol, capital punishment, crime, crime and punishment, death penalty, Death Row, entertainment, executed, execution, gas chamber, gassed, James Kendrick, Merle Haggard, murder, music, Nashville, outlaw country, San Quentin, true crime, USA
Posted on October 30, 2018
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1952 was a quiet year for the Sing Sing death house. Only three prisoners walked their last mile, Edward Kelly and Wallace Ford, Jr on October 30 and before them Bernard Stein on March 6. That was pretty quiet considering 1951 saw eight inmates…
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1950, 1951, 1952, Auburn, Auburn Prison, condemned, crime, crime and punishment, criminal, criminals, Dannemora, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, Eddie Lee Mays, Edward Kelly, electric chair, electrocute, electrocuted, electrocution, Genesee County, Joseph Francel, murder, murdered, murderers, New York, New York State, Sing Sing, Sing Sing death house, State Electrician, State Governor, Thomas Dewey, true crime, USA, Wallace Ford, Warden Wilfred Denno, Wilfred Denno, William Kemmler
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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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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