Tag: George Barrett

• On This Day in 1936 – George ‘Diamond King’ Barrett, first to die for murdering a Federal agent.

  

  Barrett is certainly a criminal curiosity. His life was one of crime and allegedly several murders. The murder for which he finally died gave him an unwilling place in the chronicles of American crime, though he was hardly appreciated becoming one of history’s footnotes. So why did he hang in a state which had long…

  CrimeScribe

  March 24, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime

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• US Federal Executions, a worrying new trend?

  

  The recent Federal executions of three prisoners are both a rarity and perhaps the start of a worrying trend. While individual states have long been executing convicts within their own jurisdictions the Federal Government has historically been far more restrained. Historically speaking Uncle Sam usually hands out long sentences but seldom executes. The most recent,…

  CrimeScribe

  July 21, 2020

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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