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Tangaraju s/o Suppiah (19 January 1977 – 26 April 2023) was a Singaporean convicted drug trafficker who was charged in February 2014 with abetting the trafficking of about 1 kg (2.2 lb) of cannabis (also known as marijuana). Prior to his arrest in 2014, Tangaraju had been to prison several times for marijuana consumption and other marijuana ...
Newspaper photo taken shortly after the arrest of Sada Abe (center) in Tokyo in 1936. Frantisek Kotzwara (1730–1791), Czech violinist composer, died during erotic asphyxiation; Albert Dekker (1905–1968), American actor, found dead in his bathroom with a noose around his neck, looped around the shower curtain rod.
To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland. The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn behind a horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the ...
The short drop is a method of hanging in which the condemned prisoner stands on a raised support, such as a stool, ladder, cart, horse, or other vehicle, with the noose around the neck.
Death penalty has been carried out many times for cannabis trafficking. In July 2004 a convicted drug trafficker, Raman Selvam Renganathan who stored 2.7 kilograms of cannabis or marijuana in a Singapore flat was hanged in Changi Prison. He was sentenced to death on September 1, 2003, after an eight-day trial.
Hanged, drawn, and quartered for murder in a private quarrel [50] John and Henry Sheares, Irish patriots, were hanged on 14 July 1798, outside of Newgate Prison 1766: Nicholas Sheehy: An Irish Catholic Priest who was hung, drawn and quartered for supposedly aiding the murder of John Bridges (though there are claims that Bridges survived) [51]
A "viper" was known as someone who consumes marijuana. [7] In 1943, Time published its first article on the 'weed'. The article describes the 'roach' as the remains of a smoked down joint, suggesting that it was a desirable meant to be reused. [8] The article recalls that a "the viper [drug user] may then quietly "blast the weed" (smoke).
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