• list of people who have acted as official executioners. In 1870 the Republic of France abolished all local executioners and named the executioner of Algiers...
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    sentence. The warrant protects the executioner from the charge of murder. Common terms for executioners derived from forms of capital punishment—though they...
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  • 14 August 1992) was one of Britain's last official executioners, officiating between 1941 and 1964. He was chief executioner at 41 executions and acted...
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    moments of some of those he executed. List of executioners Hanging Capital punishment Weis, Rene (2001). Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson...
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  • birthday, and is buried in Barnard Cemetery in Corning, New York. List of executioners Banner, Stuart (March 2003). The Death Penalty: An American History...
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  • Albert Pierrepoint (category English executioners)
    was added to the list of head executioners soon after. In October 1941 Pierrepoint undertook his first execution as lead executioner when he hanged the...
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    Henry Pierrepoint (category English executioners)
    Manchester on 26 December 1898. In 1901, Henry was appointed to the list of executioners after repeatedly writing to the Home Office to offer his services...
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  • Experiences as an Executioner, London : P. Lund, [1892] (via Internet Archive) Gallows hemp rope List of executioners Official Table of Drops Wade 2009...
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  • Carl Gröpler (category German executioners)
    with guillotines. Gröpler was one of the most famous executioners in Germany. Franz Friedrich Carl Gröpler was a child of the railway worker and service...
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  • collective guilt, that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were "willing executioners" in the Holocaust because of a unique and virulent "eliminationist...
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  • Billington died. Thomas died about a month later, of pneumonia. He was 29 years old. List of executioners "The Billington Hangmen". billingtonfamiliesoflancs...
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  • carried out his last hanging on 17 August 1937. He was struck off the list of executioners when, after having failed to rupture the prisoner's spinal cord in...
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  • Alison (2009), Billington: Victorian Executioner, The History Press, ISBN 978-0-7509-4774-9 List of executioners "The English Hangmen 1850 - 1964". capitalpunishmentuk...
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    Richard Brandon (category English executioners)
    Burton". Thomas Derrick Execution of Charles I § Executioner of Charles I List of executioners "The confession of Richard Brandon". British Library....
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  • 1941. List of executioners "The English hangmen 1850 - 1964". capitalpunishmentuk.org. Retrieved 2010-11-23. Fielding, Steve. The Executioner's Bible:...
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  • Thomas Pierrepoint (category English executioners)
    Thomas never officially retired, rather his name was removed from the list of executioners and invitations to conduct executions ceased to arrive. He died at...
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    Gordon Cummins (category English people convicted of murder)
    the United Kingdom HM Prison Wandsworth List of executioners List of serial killers by number of victims List of serial killers in the United Kingdom Portals:...
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  • Department of Justice investigation into allegations that a violent deputy gang known as the Executioners was running the Compton station of the LASD....
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  • August Sangret (category Canadian Army personnel of World War II)
    Habeas corpus HM Prison Wandsworth List of executioners Portals: England Law Kent United Kingdom In the autumn of 1942, Sangret submitted a blood sample...
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  • being removed from the official Home Office list. He died in 1961, at the age of 83. List of executioners "The English hangmen 1850 - 1964". capitalpunishmentuk...
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    in Singapore Courts of the United Kingdom English criminal law Execution by firing squad in the United Kingdom List of executioners Murder, Mystery and...
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    William Billington (category English executioners)
    He died in 1952. List of executioners Fielding, Steve (2008). The Executioner's Bible: The Story of Every British Hangman of the Twentieth Century. John...
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    Buck Ruxton (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    punishment in the United Kingdom Domestic violence HM Prison Manchester List of executioners Portals: Biography Law England Scotland United Kingdom Although Ruxton...
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  • Auburn and committed suicide by shooting himself. List of executioners "Hulbert, Former Executioner, Is a Suicide; Man Who Put 140 to Death Shoots Himself"...
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  • The Bastard Executioner is an American historical fiction drama television series, created by Kurt Sutter, that aired on FX from September 15, 2015, to...
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  • the World Wide Wrestling Federation. The first version of Executioners was founded by Executioner #1, who was a masked wrestler, wrestling for World Wide...
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    1901. He was the patriarch of the Billington family of executioners. Billington died at home from emphysema in the early hours of 13 December 1901, ten days...
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    Charles-Henri Sanson (category French executioners)
    six-generation family dynasty of executioners. His great-grandfather, a soldier in the French royal army named Charles Sanson (1658–1695) of Abbeville, was appointed...
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  • The official title of "state electrician" was given to some American state executioners in states using the electric chair during the early 20th century...
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  • Robert Leslie Stewart (category Scottish executioners)
    (April 1918 – 30 April 1988), from Edinburgh, Scotland, was one of the last executioners in the United Kingdom, officiating between 1950 and 1964. Brought...
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