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Eva Dugan (1878 – February 21, 1930) was a convicted murderer whose execution by hanging at the state prison in Florence, Arizona, resulted in her decapitation and influenced the state of Arizona to replace hanging with the lethal gas chamber as a method of execution.
Clarence Dixon (1955–2022), murderer; executed by lethal injection [15] Eva Dugan (1878–1930), murderer; was decapitated during an attempted hanging; Randy Greenawalt (1949–1997), serial killer and mass murderer who helped Tison escape; executed by lethal injection [16] Douglas Gretzler (1951–1998), serial killer; executed by lethal ...
Eva Dugan, first woman and last person executed by hanging by the state of Arizona for murder of chicken rancher Andrew Mathis, 1927. John Barcoski, murdered by being beaten to death with pick-axes by the Coal and Iron Police 9 February 1929. Victor Licata, who killed his father, mother, two brothers, and a sister with an axe in Tampa, Florida.
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Eva Dugan (1930) – decapitated in botched hanging for murder; Patsy Cline (1963) – decapitated when airplane crashed; Denny Keith (1964) – decapitated in racing car crash; Charles Bassett (1966) – decapitated in crash of T-38 jet aircraft [13] Les Ritchey (1966) – decapitated in drag racing crash
The decapitation of Eva Dugan during a botched hanging in 1930 led the state of Arizona to switch to the gas chamber as its primary execution method, on the grounds that it was believed more humane. [14] One of the more recent decapitations as a result of the long drop occurred when Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was hanged in Iraq in 2007. [15]
Islamic State said it had killed a Norwegian and a Chinese captive, showing what appeared to be pictures of the dead men under a banner reading "Executed" in the latest edition of its English ...
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