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Captain Clegg (U.S. title: Night Creatures [1]) is a 1962 British adventure horror film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, and Oliver Reed. [2] It produced by John Temple-Smith for Hammer Film Productions. It is loosely based on the Doctor Syn character created by Russell Thorndike.
Pages in category "People executed by Pennsylvania by electric chair" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Joseph Johnson became the last person in Texas to be executed by the electric chair on July 30, 1964. [3] In addition, Lawrence O'Connor became the last person in Texas to be executed for a crime other than murder (for participating in a gang rape, [ 4 ] on April 26, 1964).
The electric chair was the sole means of execution in Florida from 1924 until 2000, when the Florida State Legislature, under pressure from the U.S. Supreme Court, signed lethal injection into law. Although no one has been executed in this manner since 1999, prisoners awaiting execution on Florida's death row may still be electrocuted at their ...
South Carolina used to carry out an average of three executions a year and had more than 60 inmates on death row when the last execution was carried out in 2011. Since then, successful appeals and ...
Hangings in New Jersey were carried out under the authority of the county in which the condemned man or woman was convicted; after the switch to the electric chair, all executions took place under state authority in the execution chamber of the Trenton State Prison, where death row and the electric chair resided. [3]
Now, the electric chair is currently the state’s backup method if inmates do not select a method of execution. That policy is due to a 2021 law that made the electric chair the default method ...
Tennessee has executed its longest-serving death row inmate, who became the second person put to death in the state's electric chair in just over a month.