Tag: Sizzling Sally

• Nitrogen Hypoxia – The Death Penalty’s Future?

  

  It’s never been done before and might never be used, but Alabama has announced its near-completion of a nitrogen gas chamber if it should prove impossible to obtain drugs for lethal injections. Far from dusting off its electric chair, (the notorious ‘Yellow Mama’) like Tennessee and South Carolina or offering firing squads as South Carolina […]

  CrimeScribe

  June 10, 2021

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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• On This Day in 1935 – Raymond Hamilton, Depression Desperado and ‘Gentleman Bandit.’

  

  Meet Ray Hamilton, thief, armed robber, kidnapper, escape artist, murderer. He worked with Clyde Barrow as part of the infamous ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ Gang before his out-sized ego caused him to strike out on his own. By his execution in May, 1935 (at the tender age of 22) he’d racked up no less than 362 […]

  CrimeScribe

  May 10, 2021

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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