Tag: USA
Posted on November 3, 2018
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Born on April 6, 1937 in Oildale, California, Merle Haggard’s troubles started early. His father died which in 1945 affected him greatly. From then until 1960, he was in and out of trouble. Mostly in it. School truancy, theft, burglary, robbery, passing bad checks,…
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1961, Bakersfield, California, California Highway Patrol, capital punishment, crime, crime and punishment, death penalty, Death Row, entertainment, executed, execution, gas chamber, gassed, James Kendrick, Merle Haggard, murder, music, Nashville, outlaw country, San Quentin, true crime, USA
Posted on October 30, 2018
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1952 was a quiet year for the Sing Sing death house. Only three prisoners walked their last mile, Edward Kelly and Wallace Ford, Jr on October 30 and before them Bernard Stein on March 6. That was pretty quiet considering 1951 saw eight inmates…
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1950, 1951, 1952, Auburn, Auburn Prison, condemned, crime, crime and punishment, criminal, criminals, Dannemora, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, Eddie Lee Mays, Edward Kelly, electric chair, electrocute, electrocuted, electrocution, Genesee County, Joseph Francel, murder, murdered, murderers, New York, New York State, Sing Sing, Sing Sing death house, State Electrician, State Governor, Thomas Dewey, true crime, USA, Wallace Ford, Warden Wilfred Denno, Wilfred Denno, William Kemmler
Posted on October 7, 2018
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Execution has long been part of criminal history, society’s ultimate sanction for the very worst offenders. Less enthusiastic supporters regard it as a necessary evil and a deterrent even while acknowledging its distasteful nature. Opponents believe it no deterrent at all, that it’s applied…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: capital punishment, condemned, crime, crime and punishment, crime history, death, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, death warrant, detectives, discrimination, electric chair, electrocute, electrocuted, Ephie Foster, executed, execution, executions, gallows, Grady Jarratt, History, Jimmy Thompson, justice, law, Louisiana, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Marvin Wiggins, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison, prisoners, racism, regular or extra crispy, Sam Jones, St Martinville, true crime, USA, Vincent Venezia, Willie Francis
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
