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  • Herbert Rowse Armstrong – A Poisonous Plymothian

      Herbert Rowse Armstrong, the only British lawyer to be hanged for murder,   Next up in a parade of deliberately-forgotten Plymouth folk is Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong. Retired Army Major, former MP for Plymouth, respectable small-town lawyer, embezzler, fraudster, repeat poisoner and one of Britain’s most notorious murderers. His case isn’t especially memorable in […]

    CrimeScribe

    May 26, 2014
    True Crime, Uncategorized
    arsenic, condemned cell, crime, death penalty, death sentence, execution, fraud, gallows, Gloucester, hanging, hangman, Hay-on-Wye, John Ellis, murder, poison, prison, true crime
  • Oklahoma: The Botched Execution of Clayton Lockett

    Here’s an interesting link for the inside track on this debacle. It’s a preliminary summary from Robert Patton (Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections) to Mary Fallin (Oklahoma State Governor):   https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8bT8f-N8gQvT0liN0I3d1NIRlU/edit?pli=1     Here’s the text in full. Further comment by me is probably unnecessary:  

    CrimeScribe

    May 1, 2014
    Odds And Ends, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized
    8th Amendemnt, botched, capital punishment, Clayton Lockett, crime, cruel and unusual, death penalty, Death Row, Eighth Amendment, execution, executions, justice, lethal injection, Mary Fallin, murder, Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Oklahoms, prison, Robert Patton, true crime, unconstitutional
  • On This Day in 1865: The Last Stand of John Wilkes Booth

    John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.   John Wilkes Booth was born into one of America’s most distinguished acting dynasties. He died one of America’s most notorious figures and its first Presidential assassin. On the evening of April 14, 1865, not long after the final surrender of Confederate forces that effectively ended the […]

    CrimeScribe

    April 26, 2014
    Uncategorized
    Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, assassin, assassination, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate, Derringer, Federal, Ford’s Theater, John Wilkes Booth, Maryland, murder, Potomac, true crime, Virginia, Washington
  • The Brits Who Fought For Hitler.

    The SS motto – ‘My honour is loyalty.’   As a freelance scribbler and long-time student of military history I love finding the more overlooked or forgotten aspects of the subject. For instance, the popular narrative of the Second World War holds that the British people pulled together, fighting as one for a common cause. […]

    CrimeScribe

    December 1, 2013
    Uncategorized
    Albert Pierrepoint, Britain, British Army, British Free Corps, British military history, capital punishment, crime, death penalty, execution, France, History, John Amery, Nazi, Nazis, Old Bailey, Politics, Second World War, SS, traitor, treachery, treason, true crime, Waffen SS, Wandsworth Prison, World War 2, World War Two
  • ‘Doctor’ Crippen, Hanged Today In 1910. Innocent? Or Hanged For The Wrong Murder..?

    Most people know the name. Most who know the name, know the story. ‘Doctor’ Hawley Harvey Crippen (actually a salesman of quack remedies) unwittingly became one of criminal history’s most infamous names. His wife Cora disappeared. Her remains were found beneath  the coal cellar of their home, 39 Hilldrop Crescent. Crippen flees to Canada with […]

    CrimeScribe

    November 23, 2013
    True Crime
    Bernard Spilsbury, capital punishment, Crippen, David Foran, death penalty, death sentence, Doctor Crippen, drug, drugs, Ethel le Neve, executed, execution, FBI, forensic, gallows, hanged, Hilldrop Crescent, Holloway, Holloway Prison, hyoscine, John Ellis, John Trestrail, Laurentic, lies, miscarriage of justice, murder, murderer, Pentonville, Pentonville Prison, poisoner, poisoners, poisons, scopolamine, Scotland Yard, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, SS Montrose, true crime, unjust, Winston Churchill, wrongly convicted
  • Joseph Paul Franklin Will Die Tonight

    This is Joseph Paul Franklin. He’s reportedly confessed to 22 murders, at least 16 bank robberies, several non-fatal shootings and a number of other crimes. Most famously, Franklin was the man who shot porn magnate Larry Flynt (leaving him permanently paralysed) and civil rights leader Vernon Jordan. Jr. (who also survived). Franklin, barring any last-minute […]

    CrimeScribe

    November 19, 2013
    True Crime
    Adolf Hitler, anti-semitism, bigotry, capital punishment, death penalty, death sentence, execution, hate crime, Hustler, Indiana, Joseph Paul Franklin, Larry Flynt, lethal injection, Missouri, multiple murder, murder, murderer, porn, pornography, racism, racist, serial killer, shot, true crime, Vernon Jordan
  • Cars, Crooks and the Great Train Robbery

    It’s rare that I get to combine two of my biggest interests in the same scribble, so I thought I’d indulge myself. This is Roy James AKA ‘The Weasel.’ Roy was, like so many aspiring racers, big on ability but short on cash. Even in the 1950’s and 60’s racing was still the most expensive […]

    CrimeScribe

    November 6, 2013
    True Crime, Uncategorized
    formula one, great train robbery, jack brabham, jackie stewart, motor racing, motorsport, racing driver, Roy James, sport
  • Hitmen, Hangmen And Hypocrisy.

      ‘I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people.’ Britain’s former chief public executioner Albert Pierrepoint in his 1974 memoir ‘Executioner: Pierrepoint.’   I know, I […]

    CrimeScribe

    November 2, 2013
    Uncategorized
    capital punishment, crime, crime and punishment, death penalty, hypocrisy, law and order, murder, true crime
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