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Mississippi on Wednesday executed Joseph Daniel Burns for the 1994 stabbing death of a Tupelo motel clerk.The 42-year-old was given a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the State Penitentiary at Parchman. Burns was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. It was Mississippi's third execution this year.
Jul 22, 2010 · Flipboard. Comments. PARCHMAN, Miss. -- Mississippi on Wednesday executed Joseph Daniel Burns for the 1994 stabbing death of a Tupelo motel clerk. The 42-year-old was given a lethal injection ...
- First Official Execution in New Zealand
- Background to The Killings
- Maketū Is Apprehended
- Ngāpuhi Reaction: The Significance of Isabella Brind
- The Trial
- Tikanga Māori: ‘The Right Māori Ways’ and British Law
At noon on 7 March 1842, up to a thousand people gathered at the corner of Queen Street and Victoria Street West, in what is now the centre of the Auckland CBD. Seeing a crowd this size gathered today on this busy intersection would hardly attract attention, but these people were not about to cross a busy road as they went about their business. The...
In 1839 John Roberton, a sailor and whaler, purchased Motuarohia, a small island in the Bay of Islands, from a ‘consortium of chiefs’ including Wharerahi and his younger brother Rewa, for £213, paid with a combination of cash and goods. The brothers were leading figures of the Ngāi Tawake hapū of Ngāpuhi, based at Waimate. Both signed He Whakaputan...
Maketū sought refuge in his father’s village. The authorities in Russell detained three European men for the killings until word spread that Maketū had confessed. The killing of Rewa’s granddaughter saw hundreds of Māori from the surrounding area gather to address the matter. The vastly outnumbered settler community was fearful that widespread conf...
The death of Rewa’s granddaughter required some form of utu to be paid to the wronged party. Ranginui Walker described utu as ‘the guiding, and perhaps most important, principle throughout Māori dispute resolution…. at its most basic level utu simply meant equivalence or repayment. Such repayment would restore the balance which had been upset by th...
On 1 March 1842, Maketū stood trial in the newly opened Supreme Court in Auckland. Attorney-General William Swainson had welcomed the opening of the court as evidence that a ‘power had been established over both races to which, henceforward, all would be compelled to bow.’ Presiding over the trial was Chief Justice William Martin. An all-male, all-...
At the time of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori lived according to a complex system of customary laws that are sometimes referred to as tikanga Maori. The anthropologist Joan Metge described tikanga as the ‘way(s) of doing and thinking held by Māori to be just and correct, the right Māori ways’. Legal scholar Ani Mikaere defines tikanga...
Jul 22, 2010 · Moments before the executioner filled Joseph Daniel Burns' veins with the lethal drug cocktail that would end his life, Burns, his voice soft but steady, apologized to his victim's family.
Oct 22, 2022 · The Lynching. The opinion of the local press notwithstanding, on the night of Feb. 18, 1886, Joseph Burns was lynched by a large mob of men on the Winchester Pike just south of Martinsburg. The Martinsburg Independent reported the event under the headlines “HANGED – A GREAT MOB OF MASKED MEN TAKE JOSEPH BURNS FROM THE JAIL.
Apr 9, 2018 · It seems Burns had a sudden attack of conscience over falsely accusing his two neighbours of murder. And, as you might expect, this led to immediate suspicion that Burns himself was the man who murdered the Snow family. Joseph Burns is committed for trial, and Margaret Reardon changes her story - now testifying that Burns alone was the killer.
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The second execution in New Zealand was the public hanging of Joseph Burns on 17 June 1848. On the day of his execution, he was paraded down Auckland's Queen St, seated in a coffin, and taken by boat across the Waitemata Harbour to the Devonport waterfront, where he was hanged on King Edward Parade, not far from the scene of his crimes.
