Tag: USA
Posted on August 28, 2018
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“This is Orson Welles speaking from London. The Black Museum, repository of death… Here, in this grim stone structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide where everyday objects, a piece of wire, a chemist’s flask, a silver…
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1950's, 1952, 1953, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1994, 2015, 2016, archive, BBC, Black Museum, Citizen Kane, crime, crime and punishment, Crime Museum, drama, dramatisation, dramatised, entertainment, History, internet, media, movies, murder, murdered, murderers, Museum of London, online, Orson Welles, podcast, podcasters, podcasts, radio, Scotland Yard, true crime, USA, War of the Worlds, Waterloo
Posted on August 6, 2018
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August 6, 1890 saw the dawn of a new age for criminal history. At Auburn Prison in upstate New York there was the execution.of one William Kemmler, condemned for murdering girlfriend Matilda Ziegler with a hatchet. There was nothing remarkable about Kemmler (an alcoholic…
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Category: History, Odds And Ends, True CrimeTags: Albert Pierrepoint, Alfred Southwick, Auburn, Auburn Prisod, capital punishment, Charles Durston, crime, crime and punishment, David Hill, death, Death Commission, death penalty, Death Row, Edwin Davis, electric chair, electrocuted, electrocution, executed, executions, Florida, George Westinghouse, hanging, Harold Brown, History, J P Morgan, John Hurlburt, justice, law, murder, murderer, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Robert Elliott, Roxalana Druse, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Thomas Edison, Tillie Ziegler, true crime, USA, William Kemmler
Today it’s Friday July 13, 2018. July 13, 1928 was also a Friday, a Friday delivering the ultimate in bad luck to 11 men in three different States… In Mississippi’s Yazoo County murderer Will Burdo nervously awaited his date with the hangman. While…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: capital punishment, castle on the cumberland, crime, death penalty, Death Row, Eddyville, electric chair, electrocuted, electrocution, gallows, Georgia, History, hot squat, Kentucky, last mile, Milledgeville, Mississippi, New York, old sparky, Parchman, prisons, punishment, Sing Sing, Sing Sing death house, Sing Sing Prison, Smith County, USA, Yazoo County
Japan, one of only two members of the G7 to retain capital punishment, the other is the US, has never liked publicity regarding its death penalty. Just as the British used to do until abolition, it’s shrouded in secrecy. Even the condemned don’t know…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1995, Aum Shinryko, capital punishment, chemical weapons, cult, death, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, executed, execution, gallows, hanged, hanging, History, Japan, journalism, justice, mass murder, media, murder, nerve agent, nerve gas, poison gas, Politics, Sarin, Shoko Asihara, Tokyo, Tokyo subway attack, USA
A few days ago Channel 5 screened another episode of Hidden History of Britain. Presented by former politician Michael Portillo, the episode covered Shepton Mallet Prison and the case of Leroy Henry. Shepton Mallet should be familiar to readers of Crimescribe, as should Leroy…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1945, Channel 5, Channel Five, executed, execution, gallows, George Edward Smith, hanged, hanging, hangman, Hidden History of Britain, HMP Cornhill, Honingham Hall, Leroy Henry, Michael Portillo, military, Norfolk, Pierrepoint, Second World War, Shepton Mallet, Sir Eric Teichman, Somerset, Thomas Pierrepoint, TV, UK, US, USA, VE Day, World War II
All in all, a sorry fate for a man who'[d once shown such promise.
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Category: True CrimeTags: addict, America, American, American Ambassador, black cap, cold meat shed, condemned, condemned cell, Court of Criminal Appeal, crime, crime and punishment, criminal, death, death penalty, death sentence, drug, drug addict, drug addiction, drugs, George Henry lamson, H L Mencken, History, Home Secretary, London, morphine, Mr Justice Hawkins, murder, Old Bailey, poison, poisoner, poisoning, punishment, trial, USA, Wandsworth, Wandsworth Prison, William MArwood
Executioners are seen as a strange breed. Usually tolerated, sometimes celebrated, frequently feared and often despised, the man (for it usually is) who drops the blade, swings the axe, pushes the lever or throws the switch remains a breed apart. With their particular profession…
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Category: True CrimeTags: capital punishment, crime, criminals, death, death penalty, devil's island, England, executed, execution, executioner, executioners, French Guiana, gallows, gas chamber, guillotine, hanged, History, Ireland, Jack Ketch, National Razor, Paddington, Papillon, punishment, San Quentin, scaffold, Tyburn, UK, USA
As regular readers know, I do like crime’s more unusual case, the firsts, lasts and onlys. Minnesota’s George Sitts is certainly one of those. Born in Leroy, Minnesota on October 29, 1913, he was a serial felon, escape artist and double cop-killer. He was the…
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1947, capital punishment, crime, Deadwood, death penalty, electric chair, electrocuted, electrocution, George Sitts, History, Minnesota, murder, murderer, South Dakota, Stillwater, true crime, USA, Wyoming
West Virginia has never been known as a hard-line death penalty State, abolishing capital punishment in 1965. After 1899 there were 104 hangings and, with a change in method, nine electrocutions. Elmer Brunner’s, on April 3, 1959 was the last. Brunner wasn’t a…
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Category: True CrimeTags: 1959, Cecil Underwood, condemned, crime, death, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, electric chair, electrocuted, electrocution, Elmer Brunner, executed, execution, History, last mile, Moundsville, old sparky, punishment, true crime, USA, West Virginia
Posted on January 14, 2018
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So, the State of South Carolina (previously responsible for executing then exonerating 14-year old George Stinney) is considering dusting off Old Sparky. Difficulties in obtaining lethal injection drugs have caused a backlog on Death Row. South Carolina has numerous condemned inmates, wants to start…
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: Arizona, Arkansas, capital punishment, Clayton Lockett, condemned, death penalty, Death Row, Donald Harding, electric chair, executed, executions, Federal Drug Administration, firing squad, gallows, gas chamber, George Stinney, James Wells, lethal injection, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, old sparky, Pfizer, Politics, South Carolina, Texas, USA, Virginia, William Timmons
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 September 2, 2014
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Crime, it’s a part of human existence. It’s in our culture, our art, our literature, our entertainment. For some of us it’s in our blood. It’s also crossed over into our language. Seemingly normal everyday phrases, the kind most people use without even thinking…
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Category: True CrimeTags: Americans, Britain, capital punishment, condemned cell, convicted, conviction, court, courtroom, crime, crime and punishment, crime of the century, cruel and unusual, death, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, defence, executed, execution, executioner, executions, gallows, Great Britain, guilty, hanged, hanging, hangman, History, judges, justice, law and order, lawyers, lethal injection, miscarriage of justice, multiple murder, murder, murderer, not guilty, pop culture, prison, prosecution, prosecutor, robbers, shot, true crime, UK, United States, US, USA, wrongly convicted
