Perhaps one of the most sensational and unusual cases of modern times in the Far East reached its conclusion on November 2nd, 2001, when Maznah Ismail, her husband Mohd Affandi Abdul Rahman, and their 31-year-old helper, Juraimi Hussin, were hanged at Malaysia’s Kajang Prison on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. Maznah was better known as … Read more
Mariette Sonjaleen Bosch was the first white woman to be hanged in the southern African state of Botswana and the only white woman to be hanged in Africa for many years. She is the fourth woman to be executed in Botswana since independence from Britain in 1966 and went to the gallows on the 31st of March 2001. Unlike most of the women in … Read more
The Crime and Execution Flor Contemplacion, a 42-year-old Filipina maid, was convicted by a Singaporean court of killing another Filipina maid, Delia Maga, and Nicholas Huang, the three-year-old Singaporean son of her employer, on May 4th, 1991. She had originally confessed to the murders. It was, however, later claimed that she made the confession under … Read more
Introduction Angel Mou Pui-Peng, a 25-year-old unmarried mother, was hanged in Changi prison before dawn on Friday the 6th of January 1995. She became the 95th person (and third woman) to hang under Singapore’s strict 1975 anti-drug laws. Cheuk Mei-mei, 29, also from Hong Kong, was executed in 1994 and another three women were executed … Read more
Sandra Smith was the last woman to be hanged in South Africa (with her boyfriend Yassiem Harris) The crime.To make ends meet, they tried renting video recorders from shops and then selling them but this didn’t net them any real money. Harris, who was unemployed, also spent time hanging about outside a girl’s school and got to … Read more
