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
Nitrogen hypoxia (inert gas asphyxiation) is an execution method that induces death by forcing the condemned prisoner to inhale pure, unoxygenated nitrogen gas through a sealed full-face mask. By completely displacing breathable oxygen from the respiratory tract, the procedure induces rapid arterial deoxygenation and fatal cerebral anoxia. Originally proposed as a humane, painless alternative when … Read more
The USA’s last fully public hanging took place at Owensboro on Friday, August 14, 1936, when 22-year-old Rainey Bethea was put to death for the rape and murder of 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. Florence Thompson was the sheriff. She had taken over the job from her husband, Everett, some three months earlier after he had died … Read more
Billy Bailey became the third person to be hanged in America since the resumption of executions in 1977 (the other two were Charles Campbell and Westley Allan Dodd, both in Washington State). Bailey was 49 years old, balding, wore glasses, and had been on death row for 16 years. Background Bailey was born the 19th … Read more
