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2 days ago · January 16, 2023. 60 years, 76 days. United States. Longest served prisoner in California history. Accused of stabbing and killing fifteen-year-old Marlene Miller with scissors in the small town of Hanford. Originally sentenced to death for murder but changed to life in prison in the 1970s.
Span of crimes. 1572–1585. Country. Holy Roman Empire. State (s) Moravia. Date apprehended. 1585. Jan Philopon Dambrovský (1540 – 1586/1587), also known as Joannes Philopon Dambrowski, was a 16th-century Roman Catholic priest and dean of the Olomouc chapter, responsible for the poisoning of four archbishops .
2 days ago · December 21, 1978. Imprisoned at. Menard Correctional Center. John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois. He became known as the Killer Clown due to his public performances as a ...
5 days ago · e-mail. tel: (613) 256-8308. Human Rights Research provides information on consular rights issues in death penalty cases, along with international legal consulting and research services to attorneys, consulates and non-governmental organizations. The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public ...
5 days ago · With the death of Robert Badinter, who served as Minister of Justice in France from 1981-86, the fight for a universal ban on the death penalty has lost one of its most illustrious activists ...
5 days ago · The 19th century witnessed the emergence of alternative methods of execution, driven by the desire for more “civilized” means of administering capital punishment. One such method was the electric chair, introduced in the late 19th century as a supposed improvement over hanging. The first electric chair execution took place in 1890 in New ...
5 days ago · THE CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY. We began our journey in the City of London Cemetery where a plaque in the memorial garden remembers Jack the Ripper's first victim Mary Nichols. As with the majority of the victims, she was buried in an unmarked grave, and her actual resting place has long since been reused several times over.
