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    John C. Woods (category Accidental deaths in the Marshall Islands)
    professor of law at the University of Georgia Law School, wrote that many of the Nazis executed at Nuremberg fell from the gallows with a drop insufficient...
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  • Tangaraju was guilty of the offence charged and had been accorded full due process. Tangaraju was hanged in the Changi Prison at dawn on 26 April 2023. Tangaraju...
    64 KB (7,120 words) - 02:55, 23 September 2024
  • Karol Kot (category People executed by the Polish People's Republic by hanging)
    his sentence to life in prison, his sentence was reinstated. Kot was hanged on 16 May 1968. Kot spent his whole life in Kraków. His family consisted...
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    short-drop gallows constructed specifically for that purpose, at the location of the camp's Gestapo. The message on the board that marks the site reads:...
    61 KB (7,030 words) - 04:22, 2 November 2024
  • Charles Birger (category Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States)
    was hanged for the murder of Adams on April 19, 1928, at the Franklin County Jail in Benton. At Birger's request, he was accompanied to the gallows by...
    16 KB (1,914 words) - 05:06, 25 October 2024
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    Archived from the original on 28 May 2014. "Video: Giggs f. B.O.B., 'Don't Go There'". The Fader. 16 February 2010. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017...
    20 KB (1,109 words) - 14:41, 6 July 2024
  • Capital punishment in New Hampshire (category Capital punishment in the United States by state)
    rape. He was the first black person to be executed in the state. On January 3, 1822, Daniel Davis Farmer was hanged in Amherst for the murder of Ann...
    17 KB (2,124 words) - 05:16, 14 October 2024
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    Hanged in 1954, she remains one of the most infamous and insidious killers in Hungarian criminal history, with her case covered extensively in the novel...
    27 KB (3,984 words) - 04:21, 21 October 2024
  • from the second floor of the indoor gallows, were recorded by the media witnesses as: I was once asked by somebody, I don't remember who, if there was...
    26 KB (3,092 words) - 21:09, 25 September 2024
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    James Hackman (category Members of the clergy convicted of murder)
    James Hackman (baptized 13 December 1752, hanged 19 April 1779), briefly Rector of Wiveton in Norfolk, was the man who murdered Martha Ray, singer and mistress...
    21 KB (3,060 words) - 18:07, 1 July 2024
  • The following is a list of episodes for the 2006 Tiger Aspect Productions television series Robin Hood. The first series ran from 7 October – 30 December...
    54 KB (50 words) - 05:07, 2 October 2024
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    Marten, claiming that he had shot her in the eye after they argued. On 11 August 1828, Corder was taken to the gallows in Bury St Edmunds, apparently too weak...
    41 KB (5,360 words) - 19:30, 26 October 2024
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    John Wesley Robinson (category Violence against women in the United States)
    did not particularly bother him. On February 15, 1915, Robinson was hanged at the gallows in Kansas City. He spent the last hours of his life cracking...
    14 KB (1,803 words) - 22:21, 21 September 2024
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    Anderson & Gallows". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved November 28, 2016. "Join Monday Night Raw for Ric Flair's 70th birthday celebration on Feb. 25". WWE...
    212 KB (22,827 words) - 00:04, 30 October 2024
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    Augustine Chacon (category Outlaws of the American Old West)
    amigos." On the day after the execution, the Arizona Bulletin reported: "[A] nervier man than Augustine Chacon never walked to the gallows, and his hanging...
    22 KB (3,083 words) - 20:51, 15 January 2024
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    SickthingsUK. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved April 8, 2012. "The Gallows". SickthingsUK. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved...
    173 KB (16,480 words) - 03:25, 9 November 2024
  • Thomas D. Carr (category 1867 murders in the United States)
    prisons, look at your poor, look at the gallows erected here to hang me - a soldier who fought five years to defend the Government. Keep liquor away from...
    23 KB (2,969 words) - 23:16, 31 October 2024
  • and Warren hang Daisy from the rafters in honor of Ruth, who always brought his bounty to the gallows (which earned him the nickname "The Hangman"). As...
    78 KB (7,247 words) - 20:35, 4 November 2024
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    called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene...
    74 KB (1,352 words) - 05:53, 7 November 2024
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    List of last words (19th century) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    physician and murderer (14 June 1856), to the hangman while looking at the trapdoor on the gallows "The worse, the better for me." — Edward Alderson, English...
    184 KB (20,913 words) - 17:55, 23 October 2024
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