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The remains of executed prisoners were buried in unmarked graves within the prison walls, as was customary. In late 2003, after capital punishment had been abolished in the UK, the remains of Corbett, Roberts, Grossley, Evans, Wills and Singh were exhumed from the prison grounds and reburied elsewhere in order to make space for the construction of a new cell block.
The murder took place in the Docklands area of Cardiff, Wales, and Mattan was mainly convicted on the evidence of a single prosecution witness. Mattan was executed in 1952. His conviction was quashed 45 years later on 24 February 1998, his case being the first to be referred to the Court of Appeal by the newly formed Criminal Cases Review ...
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 ...
The execution inspired Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol. 19 July 1899: Mary Ansell was hanged at St Albans, for poisoning her sister. At 22, she was the youngest woman to be hanged in the post-1868 'modern era' (non-public, and by the 'long drop' method).
She was the last woman to be executed in Wales. [1] She was born in Sunderland in 1867. She was sentenced to death at Glamorgan Assizes for murdering the illegitimate child of a single woman named Maud Treasure on 3 June. While lodging with a Mr. and Mrs. Wilson at Cardiff, Willis induced them to adopt a child for £1.
It includes Executed English people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Executed English women" The following 106 pages are in this category, out of 106 total.
People executed by a jurisdiction of the United Kingdom from 1901–2000. People should also be placed in the appropriate subcategory of the by-jurisdiction categories: Category:People executed by England and Wales; Category:People executed by Northern Ireland; Category:People executed by Scotland; Category:People executed by the British military
Louisa May Merrifield (3 December 1906 – 18 September 1953, née Highway) was a British murderer and the third-last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom. She was executed by Albert Pierrepoint at Strangeways Prison in Manchester for poisoning her elderly employer. She was notorious at the time as 'The Blackpool Poisoner'.