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Johann "Jack" Unterweger (16 August 1950 – 29 June 1994) was an Austrian serial killer who committed murder in several countries – Austria, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the United States. Initially convicted in 1976 of a single murder, Unterweger began to write extensively while in prison.
The method of execution in Austria was hanging until the annexation by Nazi Germany (1938-1945) when it was replaced by the guillotine. After World War II, hanging was re-introduced by the British. The last person to be executed in Austria was Johann Trnka. He was hanged on 24 March 1950 for the crime of murder. Capital punishment was abolished ...
Full suspension is not required, and for this reason, hanging is especially commonplace among suicidal prisoners (see: Suicide watch). A type of hanging comparable to full suspension hanging may be obtained by self-strangulation using a ligature around the neck and the partial weight of the body (partial suspension) to tighten the ligature ...
It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The three Gusen concentration camps in and around the village of St. Georgen/Gusen , just a few kilometres from Mauthausen, held a significant proportion of prisoners within the camp complex, at times exceeding the ...
The Council of Europe has two main instruments against capital punishment: Protocol 6 and Protocol 13. [5] [6]Protocol 6, opened for signing in 1983, which prohibits capital punishment during peacetime has been ratified by all members of the Council of Europe.
The hanging, scheduled for midnight at the end of 31 May, was slightly delayed and took place a few minutes past midnight on 1 June 1962. [5] The execution was attended by a small group of officials, four journalists and the Canadian clergyman William Lovell Hull , who had been Eichmann's spiritual counsellor while in prison. [ 214 ]
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