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Execution of the day
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A year in the life of death
- Added on: Mar 20th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Old Sparky
- Listed in: History Reference
- Tags: history crime death penalty murder execution
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Execution of the Day – 2009 (part 48)
26 November 1913 – Augustus PennyAugustus Penny shot his mother in a drunken rage after she willed her house and assets to her eldest son. After 12 years at sea for the Navy, second-born Penny came home to the New Forest where he then looked after ...
Execution of the Day – 2009 (part 47)
19 November 1903 – Tom HornTom Horn was hanged in Wyoming for a murder he probably did not commit. The hired gun was a day shy of his 43rd birthday when he was strung up for allegedly killing Willie Nickell, the 14-year-old son of a sheep farmer. 2...
Execution of the Day – 2009 (part 46)
12 November 1660 – Thomas HarrisonGeneral Thomas Harrison lost his life and a lot more for being a staunch roundhead, during the 17th century Civil War. It was his duties of taking the deposed King Charles I to trial and incriminatingly signing his...
Execution of the Day – 2009 (part 45)
5 November 2001 – Terry D ClarkTerry D Clark had the dubious honour of being the first inmate in New Mexico to be put down by lethal injection. Clark was had up for murder – a murder he may never have had chance to commit had he not been allowed ...
Execution of the Day – 2009 (part 44)
29 October 1618 – Walter RaleighEl Dorado. By that, we don’t mean the really cringey soap from the ‘90s, but the destination that caused the ultimate downfall of our next subject. The fall from grace was nothing short of spectacular for the wri...
Execution of the Day – 2009 (part 43)
22 October 1828 – Bell M’Menemy and Thomas ConnerOur second female to be executed in Scotland this month is Bell M’Menemy (the first being Susan Newell. And both shared the same fate but for different crimes. While Newell murdered a child, M’...
