This is the first of a series of three guest articles researched and written by my friend Stephen Jakobi. This is Stephen’s bio : “My strong belief in justice led me to become an English trial lawyer (Solicitor). In 1992 I founded the Human Rights Organisation Fair Trials International, giving me worldwide experience in unfair … Read more
With special thanks to Ms. Brenda Cook for providing the data for this article. Date / Place Name Outcome 20/2/1587Southwark – St. Thomas Waterings / London. Barber-Surgeons’ Hall Unknown Male Died 23rd February 1587 (i.e. 3 days later.) 14/12/1650 Oxford Anne Greenage 22 Made full recovery, pardoned, lived to marry & have children and finally died in 1665. 4/5/1658 Oxford … Read more
Williamina “Minnie” McCulloch was born on the 2nd of September, 1844, at West Greenock, Renfrewshire in Scotland to Elizabeth and John McCulloch, the fourth in a family of eight girls. Elizabeth died of cancer when Minnie was only 11 years of age, however, her father managed to ensure she received a good education. She married young to a man named McCulloch … Read more
“I am sending you to a better place than this.” With these words Darshan Singh, Singapore’s hangman would release the trap doors of the gallows in Changi prison, plummeting the condemned to their death. 17 women would hear these fateful words and their stories are told below. Eight were to hang for murder and nine … 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
