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Onlookers during the execution of Rowlands and Driscoll in 1928 HM Prison Cardiff (Welsh: Carchar Caerdydd EF ) is a Category B men's prison , located in the Adamsdown area of Cardiff , Wales . The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service .
The Rowland brothers (Edward and John, aka Tich and Jack) ran an established protection racket in Cardiff, when David (Dai) Lewis, a former professional boxer and rugby player decided to muscle in, and started a rival business, operating as a one-man-operation. [1] He had undermined their existing business with bookies at the Monmouth racetrack ...
Francisco (1876) last execution in Brazil (former Empire of Brazil) Sidney Harry Fox (1930) Robert Alan Fratta (2023) Ronnie Lee Gardner (2010) Micheal Anak Garing (2019) Juan Garza (2001) Nirmal Jibon Ghosh (1934) Gary Gilmore (1977) first post-Gregg execution in Utah and in the United States; Lewis Eugene Gilbert (2003) Barbara Graham (1955 ...
Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 434 men and women between 1932 and 1955. This table records the locations of each of the executions he participated in, the numbers in brackets being the number of executions he was assistant executioner at (often assisting his uncle, Thomas Pierrepoint), the other numbers are those in ...
Harold Bernard Allen (5 November 1911 – 14 August 1992) was one of Britain's last official executioners, officiating between 1941 and 1964.He was chief executioner at 41 executions and acted as assistant executioner at 53 others, at various prisons in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and Cyprus.
A total of 15 judicial executions took place at Swansea prison between 1858 and 1958. [1] All of the condemned prisoners were hanged for the crime of murder. Their names, ages and dates of execution are: [2] Panotis Alepis, 23 yrs & Manoeli Selapatana, 28 yrs, 20 March 1858 (executioner: William Calcraft) First public hanging, at the front of ...
Capote (film) The Captain's Paradise; Cargo 200 (film) The Case of Sergeant Grischa (film) Cat Ballou; Cell 2455 Death Row (film) The Ceremony (1963 film) The Chamber (1996 film) Changeling (film) Chicago (2002 film) Chinna Madam; Citizen Gangster; Citizen X; Clemency (film) Compulsion (1959 film) The Confession (1970 film) The Conspirator; The ...
HM Prison Shrewsbury was a category B/C men's prison in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It was decommissioned in March 2013, and is now open to the public. The Victorian prison as seen today sits on top of the original Georgian prison, the remains of which are still accessible underneath the current buildings.