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Execution Dock was a site on the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts. The "dock" consisted of a scaffold for hanging. Its last executions were in 1830.
Charles Gibbs (November 5, 1798 – April 25, 1831) was the pseudonym of an American pirate, born James D. Jeffers. Jeffers was one of the last active pirates in the Caribbean during the early 19th century, and was among the last persons to be executed for piracy by the United States.
Albert W. Hicks (c. 1820 – July 13, 1860), also known as Elias W. Hicks, William Johnson, John Hicks, and Pirate Hicks, was a triple murderer and one of the last people executed for piracy in the United States. [1]
The death penalty was used in Georgia as early as 1735. Here's what to know about capital punishment in the Peach State.
[19] [20] In South Carolina, three men were executed by gibbeting: one accused of poisoning in 1744, and two accused of murder in 1754 and 1759. [18] There have been no recorded executions using this method under the authority of the United States. However, a gang of Cuban pirates were gibbeted in New York c. 1815. [21]
Pirates did not have the luxury of building their ships; they were "acquired". [ 36 ] : 160 As a result, a pirate captain had to be on the lookout for a vessel that would serve his purpose and procure the ship without harming it in such a way as to make it unfit for service.
Danial Anthony Lucas, who was convicted of the crimes in 1999, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. EST at the state prison in Jackson.
Willie James Pye has become the first person to be executed in Georgia in four years. The 59-year-old was sentenced to death for the 1993 murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, rape and burglary of ...