With special thanks to Michael Gatherar for contributing this article. Cop Killer About 8:30 pm on Tuesday, 26th March 1946, retired Detective Sergeant James Straiton, 61 years old, was at home with his wife when his neighbour, James Deekan, called. Deekan had returned home from an evening at the cinema and believed his house was … Read more
Background Marie Fikáčková was born on 9th September 1936 in Sušice, in Czechoslovakia. She grew up in a dysfunctional family but was able to graduate from medical school in Central Klatovy with good grades and in 1955 was working as a nurse in the maternity department of the hospital in Sušice, in the Pilsen region. She was regarded as very competent, and was promoted to head nurse of that … Read more
Background Olga Hepnarová was born on June 30, 1951 to a middle class family in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her father was a bank clerk, her mother a dentist. She did quite well at school but as she grew older she found it hard to communicate with her parents and classmates. Later she claimed that she could hardly approach … 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
Between January 1800 and April 1868 in the British Isles (including Ireland and the Isle of Man), 206 women and girls were taken to places of public execution and there hanged by the neck until they were dead, in accordance with the sentence of the court.The last woman to be hanged in public was 25 … Read more
