Many myths and partial truths have grown over the centuries about hanging. This article tries to separate these from the known facts. Hanging is a Slow and Painful Death This is a PART TRUTH, depending on the style of hanging used. Based on photos and videos of actual hangings in Iran and Kuwait, and of … Read more
Irma Ilse Ida Grese was an SS-Aufseherin (female guard supervisor) stationed at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during the Second World War. Following her arrest by British forces in April 1945, she was prosecuted at the landmark Belsen Trial in Lüneburg. Convicted of direct involvement in prisoner mistreatment, murder, and selection for the gas … Read more
Frances Kidder became the last woman to be hanged in public when she was executed by William Calcraft at Maidstone on the 2nd of April 1868 for the drowning of her stepdaughter. After the passing of the Capital Punishment Amendment Act of 1868, all executions had to take place within the walls of county prisons. Priscilla Biggadyke becoming the first … Read more
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
This is a tribute to the amazing courage of so many young women during World War II who were put to death for plotting and fighting against the Nazis—as resistance fighters, partisans, and activists in towns and concentration camps. It is estimated that more than 4,000 women of various ages were hanged by Nazi forces … Read more
