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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 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 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 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
Now here’s a real criminal curiosity, the infamous Execution Bell from London’s notorious Newgate Prison. Accounts of executions, themselves a grim British tradition until the 1960’s, often relate stories of a black flag being raised and a prison bell tolling to announce a prisoner’s…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: capital punishment, crime and punishment, crime history, criminal history, criminology, death, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, death warrant, Doctor Crippen, Dr. Crippen, executed, execution, gallows, hanging, hangman, History, law and order, London, murder, Newgate, Newgate Prison, Old Bailey, Pentonville, Pentonville Prison, prison, St. Sepulchre's Church, tradition
When Frederick Parker and Albert Probert mounted the gallows at Wandsworth Prison, they died never knowing they’d taken a singular place in Britain’s chronicles of crime. Theirs would be last execution in British prison to be witnessed by a gentleman (or lady) of the…
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Category: History, Press And Politics, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: Albert Pierrepoint, Associated Press, Barlinnie, Bernard Spi;sbury, black cap, capital punishment, condemned, cop killer, death, death penalty, death sentence, executed, execution, executioner, gallows, hanged, hanging, hangings, hangman, hangmen, John Caldwell, journalism, journalist, Justice Roche, media, Murder Gang, Pierrepoint, press, prison, reporter, reporters, robbery, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, Spilsbury, Stanley Cross, Syd Dernley, Thomas Pierrepoint, Ton Phillips, trial, W G Finch, Wandsworth
The original ‘Hanging Judge’ his name became a byword for bias, ruthlessness, callousness and cruelty, Jeffreys would die as a prisoner himself.
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: bias, bloodshed, bloody assizes, crime, drawn, execution, executions, gallows, hanged, hanging, hanging judge, hangman, History, judge, King James II, law, Lord Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice, Monmouth, Monmouth Rebellion, Politics, prison, prisoner, prisoners, punishment, quartered, rebellion, Taunton, Tower of London, traitors, treachery, treason, trials, true crime, Wells
Posted on April 13, 2018
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For my 100th post, I’m going to offer you something special, something a little different from the usual fare. The story of this ‘unidentified man’ at the moment of his death. True crime buffs and historians will have seen this particular image many, many…
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Category: True CrimeTags: Angels with Dirty Faces, Arthur Mayhew, crime, crime and punishment, death house, Edwin Davis, executed, execution, executioner, History, Hollywood, James Cagney, journalism, movies, murder, murderer, New York, New York Daily News, Picture Snatcher, pop culture, prison, punishment, Robert Elliott, Ruth Snyder, Sing Sing, Sing Sing death house, Sing Sing Prison, State Electrician, Tom Howard
Posted on October 19, 2017
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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 crooks, all with something about…
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Category: True CrimeTags: America, arsenic, art, California, capital punishment, convict, convicted, conviction, crime and punishment, crime history, criminal curiosites, cyanide, death penalty, electric chair, England, Eva Coo, executed, execution, executioner, firsts, forged, forgeries, forgery, France, gallows, gas chamber, Gee Jon, George Westinghouse, Goering, guillotine, Han van Meegeren, hanged, hanging, hangman, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Hermann Goering, History, Holland, Japan Sadamichi Hirasawa, last, Lincoln, long drop, Luftwaffe, murder, Nazis, Nevada, New York, Nicolas jacques Pelletier, only, Paul Jaworski, Pennsylvania, poison, poisoned, poisoner, poisoning, prison, prisoners, punishment, robbery, Sing Sing, Thomas Edison, true crime, UK, Unit 731, USA, variable drop, Vermeer, Vermeers, William Horry, William Kemmler, William MArwood, writing
Posted on November 28, 2015
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A couple of days ago I had the pleasure of talking to BBC West Midlands Radio on the subject of the last meal. Their interest resulted from a Daily Mail article showing that, like the condemned themselves, the majority of people asked wanted comfort…
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: Americans, BBC, BBC Radio, BBC West Midlands, Britain, British, capital punishment, comfort food, crime, crime and punishment, Daily Mail, death, death penalty, death sentence, execution, History, murder, prison, true crime, United States
