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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 .
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 ...
Nadifa Mohamed, The Fortune Men, Viking (2021). Chris Phillips, Hanged for the Word If: The murder of Lily Volpert and the execution of Mahmood Hussein Mattan, the author (2020). David Thomas, Seek Out the Guilty, Long (1969) (chapter on the murder of Granville George Jenkins by Tahir Gass). Geoff Tibballs, Legal Blunders, Robinson (2000).
Berwyn (2017) a Category C men's prison, located in Wrexham is the UK's largest prison with a capacity of 2,106. Berwyn is the Prison Service's flagship prison. Usk (1844) a Category C men's prison which also includes a satellite site Prescoed (1939) a Category D men's open prison; Cardiff (1832) a Category B men's prison,
The Fortune Men is a non-fiction novel that semi-fictionalises the true story of Mahmood Hussein Mattan, a Somali former merchant seaman who was executed after being wrongfully convicted of the 6 March 1952 murder of Lily Volpert (renamed Violet Volacki in the book) in Cardiff's Tiger Bay. Mattan was posthumously acquitted in 1998 when it was ...
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 ...
Ellis served as Chief Executioner from 1907 and was involved in a total of 203 executions. Among the executions he performed were those of Hawley Harvey Crippen (known as Dr. Crippen) in 1910, Frederick Seddon in 1912, Sir Roger Casement in 1916, Herbert Rowse Armstrong in 1922, and Edith Thompson in 1923. The ordeal of executing Edith Thompson ...