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Individual
cases
(chronological)
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Capital
punishment in Britain.
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Catherine
Hayes
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History
of the death penalty in Britain
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Complete
listings of British executions
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Sarah Malcolm
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The origins
of judicial hanging in Britain
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England & Wales - 1900 - 1931 &
1932 - 1964
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Jenny
Diver
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Timeline of British capital punishment
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England
& Wales 1868 - 1899 & 1837
- 1868
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Elizabeth Harrard
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The history of judicial hanging
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England
& Wales 1800 - 1827 & 1828
-1836
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Mary Blandy
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Timeline of
a modern hanging
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England & Wales 1735 – 1799 by circuit
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Elizabeth Jeffries
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The end of
public hangings
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Scotland 1800 -1899 & 1900 - 1963
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Earl Ferrers
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The reprieve system
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Northern Ireland 1900 -1961
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Elizabeth Brownrigg
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Insanity and the death penalty
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Southern Irish executions 1900 - 1954 & 1835 - 1899
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Susannah Lott
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Royal Commission Reports 1886 & 1953
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Channel Islands and Isle of Man executions
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Mary Jones
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Abolition of capital punishment
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The female hanged 1800 - 1868 & 1868 - 1955
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Ann Beddingfield
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Arguments for and against capital punishment (UK)
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The female executed 1735 - 1799
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Joseph
Harris
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Thoughts on crime and punishment
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Executions
at the Tower of London
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Charlotte Gardiner
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Thoughts on Human Rights
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Hanged at
Execution Dock
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Elizabeth Taylor
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Executions
of children, juveniles & teenage girls
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Hanging
myths and facts
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Phoebe Harris
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The court
system in England & Wales
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The “half
hanged”
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Sarah
Lloyd
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English
hangmen 1850 - 1964
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The evolution of short drop hanging
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Ann
Hurle
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Earlier
hangmen
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The evolution of long drop hanging 19th
century
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Elizabeth Godfrey
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William Calcraft - hangman
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The evolution of long drop hanging 20th century
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Melinda Mapson
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George Smith
- hangman
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Misjudged murderesses Part 1
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Mary Bateman
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Robert Evans
- The Gentleman hangman
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Misjudged murderesses Part 2
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Edith Morrey
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The Billingtons – A family of hangmen
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Misjudged murderesses Part 3
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Eliza
Fenning
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Women sentenced to death 20th century
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Galvanic experiments
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Elizabeth Woolterton
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Late 19th century developments
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Elizabeth Fricker
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Bureaucracy of judicial hanging
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Charlotte Newman
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Sarah Polgrean
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Infanticide (5 cases)
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UK Capital punishment in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Catherine Kinrade
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William Griffiths
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John Thurtell
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Jane
Scott
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Bel
Mc’Menemy
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William Corder
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The death penalty in the USA
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Jane Jameson
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Charlotte Long
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Arsenic poisoners
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Hanged by the neck until you are dead!
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Billy Bailey
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William Jobling
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Lethal Injection with specific cases
opposite
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Velma Barfeld, Karla
Faye Tucker, Christina
Riggs
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Francois Courvosier
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The
electric chair with specific cases opposite
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Toni Jo Henry, Nicholas Ingram & Judi
Buenoano
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The Bloody Steps
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The gas chamber with specific cases opposite
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Barbara Graham, Robert Alton Harris, Jimmy Gray
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Mary Ann Burdock
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Firing squad – Gilmore,
Taylor & Gardner
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Charlie Brooks - the first lethal injection
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Rebecca Smith
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Nitrogen hypoxia – Kenneth Smith
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The Stackpooles
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Timothy Judy - Indiana 1981
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US
executions updated monthly
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Helen Blackwood
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The American female hanged
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Arguments for and against the death penalty (USA)
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Abel Ovans
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American
female executions 1900 - 2021
Bios of them
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The death
penalty and deterrence in the USA
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Elizabeth Browne
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Kentucky murders 1897 - 1936
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Hangmen at War - ebook
free to download
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Mary Reeder
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Rainey Bethea - the last public hanging
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US
War crime hangings - list
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Maria Manning
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John Tawell
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Catherine Foster
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Victorian child murderers (9 cases)
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Alice Holt
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Present day execution methods
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Execution methods from times
gone by
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Catherine Wilson
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Flowery Land Pirates
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The process of judicial hanging
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Burning at the stake
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Mary Ann Ashford
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Beheading
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The garrote
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Franz Műller
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Lethal Injection
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The guillotine
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Frances Kidder
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The
electric chair
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Hanging,
drawing and quartering
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Thomas Wells
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Shooting and the firing squad
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The Gallows Galleries
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Alexander Mackay
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The gas chamber
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The Gallows Galleries 2
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Priscilla Biggadyke
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Margaret Shiel
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Mary Ann Barry
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William
Horry
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Mary Ann Cotton
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Mary Williams
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Histories of some English “hanging”
prisons & places of execution
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Frances Stewart
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Elizabeth Pearson
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Mary Lefley
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Armley
prison Leeds
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Lincoln
Castle
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Selina
Wadge
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Beaumaris
Gaol (Anglesey)
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Maidstone
prison
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Catherine Churchill
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Bodmin Gaol
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Newgate prison
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Kate Webster
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Cardiff prison
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Norwich prison
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Charles Peace
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Carmarthen Gaol
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Oxford
prison
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Flanagan & Higgins
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Chelmsford
prison
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Pentonville prison
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Alfred Sowery
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Derby’s
three prisons
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Shepton Mallet prison
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Robert Goodale
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Durham prison
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Shrewsbury
prison
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Mary Ann Britland
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Gloucester prison
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Strangeways prison (Manchester)
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Elizabeth Berry
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Hereford
prison
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Swansea
prison
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Margaret Walber
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Holloway prison
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Walton prison (Liverpool)
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Thomas Macdonald
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Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Surrey
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Wandsworth
prison
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Phoenix Park cases
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Hull prison
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Winchester prison
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Louisa Jane Taylor
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Kirkdale Gaol
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Winson Green prison (Birmingham)
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Mary Wheeler
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Knutsford Prison
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Worcester
Prison
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Baby Farmers
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Lancaster Castle
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Usk prison
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Milsom & Fowler
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Lewes prison
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York
castle prison
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Mary Ann Ansell
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Louise Masset
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Ada Chard-Williams
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19th century
execution sites
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Places of
execution in the 20th century
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John Parr
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Emily
Swann
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Mary
Daly
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The Stratton brothers
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William Foy
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William Murphy
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Rhoda Willis
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Edith
Thompson
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Susan
Newell
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Capital punishment worldwide
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Louie
Calvert
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Driscoll & Rowlands
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Annie Walsh
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Overview of
the death penalty in 2023
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Executions
worldwide updated monthly
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The Fowler brothers
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Female
executions 2020 to date
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The female
hanged 1988 to date
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Patrick
Mahon
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Female
executions 2000 to 2019
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Focus on executions in Kuwait
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Ethel
Lilly Major
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Abolition of the death penalty in Europe
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Spanish executions 1812 - 1975
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Charlotte Bryant
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Last female
executions in Europe
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Australian executions 1870 - 1967
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Nurse Waddingham
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The situation in Commonwealth countries
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Singapore’s female hangings
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Dr. Buck Ruxton
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Canadian hangings 1867 - 1962
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Focus on executions in Switzerland
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Ostler
& Appleby
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Nazi female war criminals
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Portuguese executions 1833 -1863
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Dashwood
& Silverosa
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Women
executed by the Nazis
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British
executions of war criminals at Hameln
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James McNicol
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Duncan Scott Ford
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William Joyce
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Theodore Schurch
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Clifford
Wills
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Devlin & Burns
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Walter Rowland
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Margaret
Allen
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Norman Goldthorpe
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Arthur Boyce
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John
George Haigh
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Derek Bentley
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Louisa Merrifield
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Styllou Christofi
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Ruth
Ellis
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Some cases from around the world
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John Vickers
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Dennis Howard
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Irma
Grese - Nazi war criminal
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The Toa
Payoh ritual murders in Singapore
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Vivian
Teed
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Juana
Borman - Nazi war criminal
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Angel
Pui Peng - hanged in Singapore for drugs
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Peter Manuel
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Jean
Lee - the last woman hanged in Australia
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Flor
Contemplacion - hanged in Singapore
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Ronald Marwood
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Hilda Blake
- the only woman hanged in Manitoba
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John Scripps - hanged in Singapore for
murder
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Guenther Podola
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Cordelia
Viau - Quebec in Canada
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Sandra Smith - last woman hanged in South Africa
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Francis Forsyth
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Shahla Jahed - executed in Iran in 2010
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Mona Fandey - hanged in Malaysia for
murder
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Victor
John Terry
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Olga Hepnarová hanged in Czechoslovakia
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Mariette
Bosch - Botswana
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Henry John Burnett
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Marie Fikáčková - serial
baby killer
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Nasra
al-Enezi - Kuwait
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Robert McGladdery
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Elina Zlatanova - Bulgaria’s
last female execution
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Minnie Dean - New Zealand baby farmer
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James Hanratty
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Pascoe & Whitty
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Allen and Evans
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Links, about the author and bibliography
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Links
to other interesting sites
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About the author and bibliography
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