Tag: Syd Dernley

• On This Day in 1927 – Robert Greene Elliott executes six men in two US States on the same day

  

  Robert Greene Elliott, ‘Agent of Death’ for six US States. Meet Robert Greene Elliott. Family man, devout Methodist, Sunday school superintendent, electrical contractor and pipe smoker. He also personally executed 387 people (including 5 women) working as a freelance executioner for six US States. Elliott was (and remains) the most experienced ‘State Electrician’ in penal…

  CrimeScribe

  January 6, 2020

  True Crime, Uncategorized

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• On This Day in 1934; The last British hanging witnessed by a journalist.

  

  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 press. Until the Capital Punishment (Amendment) Act of 1868 executions were…

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  May 4, 2018

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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