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Jul 27, 2023 · CNN — Singapore on Friday hanged a woman convicted of attempting to traffic an ounce of heroin, the first execution of a female prisoner in nearly two decades in what human rights groups...
After a nine-week trial, Grese was sentenced to death by hanging. Although the charges against some of the other female warders (a total of 16 were charged) were as serious as those against Grese, she was one of only three female guards to be sentenced to death.: 219
Execution. Hepnarová was executed by short-drop hanging on 12 March 1975 at Pankrác Prison in Prague. She was the last woman executed in Czechoslovakia, and one of the last by the use of short-drop hanging. There are disputes over how Hepnarová faced death.
The placard reads "We are partisans who shot at German troops", Minsk, October 26, 1941. Maria "Masha" Bruskina ( Belarusian: Марыя Барысаўна Брускіна Marïya Barïsawna Bruskina; Russian: Мария Борисовна Брускина; 1924 – 26 October 1941 in Minsk [1] ), was a Belarusian Jewish teenage nurse and a ...
NOTE: The Espy File lists Shellie McKeithen, who was executed by Pennsylvania on January 7, 1946, as female of other race. McKeithen, however, was a black male. ( See Commonwealth v. McKeithen, 353 Pa. 85, 44 A.2d 282 (Pa. 1945); The Daily Banner, January 7, 1946.) Other sources note that McKeithen has been erroneously listed as a female.
27 Sep 2012, 12:00am. Fears of a new wave of executions in Japan increased after two death row inmates were hanged earlier today. Sachiko Eto, 65, and Yukinori Matsuda, 39,
Jun 18, 2023 · On Sunday, Iranian Bahais marked 40 years since the June 18, 1983 executions of the 10 Bahai women in Shiraz, seen as one of the most egregious abuses committed against the non-Muslim minority...
