Tag: sentence of death

• On This Day in 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, last man to face a French guillotine.

  September 10, 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 in a dark mood contemplating the rising of the sun and the fall of executioner Marcel Chevalier’s blade. Inmates of what the French called ‘Death Alley’ were…

  CrimeScribe

  September 10, 2018

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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• George Kelly, falsely convicted and quickly hanged.

  For most crime buffs the name ‘George Kelly’ inspires memories of rattling Tommy guns, bank robberies and the kidnapping of Charles Urschel, all attributed to American crook George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly. Kelly, a second-rate gangster at best, was made out to be far worse than he actually was, spending the remainder of his life in…

  CrimeScribe

  March 28, 2018

  Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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