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From November 1922, the pro-treaty provisional later Free State government embarked on a policy of executing Republican prisoners in order to bring the war to an end. Many of those killed had previously been allies, and in some cases close friends (during the Irish War of Independence 1919–1921), of those who ordered their deaths in the civil ...
The Irish War of Independence (Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse), [2] also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special ...
The intervening period was marked by the death of leaders formerly allied in the cause of Irish independence. Commander-in-Chief Michael Collins was killed in an ambush by anti-treaty republicans at Béal na mBláth, near his home in County Cork, on 22 August 1922.
The Irish Free State (6 December 1922 – 29 December 1937), also known by its Irish name Saorstát Éireann (English: / ˌ s ɛər s t ɑː t ˈ ɛər ə n / SAIR-staht AIR-ən, [4] Irish: [ˈsˠiːɾˠsˠt̪ˠaːt̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]), was a state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921.
1922, 1 April Arnon Street killings: Belfast, Northern Ireland: 6: 1: A mass shooting by the Police Specials under command of Senior Officers; part of the Irish War of Independence. 1922, 26–28 April Dunmanway killings: Dunmanway, County Cork 13 1 A mass shooting of Protestant civilians alleged to be informers by the "old" IRA. 1923, 7–12 March
CORRECTION (Jan. 22, 2024, 3:18 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated when an Oklahoma appeals court upheld Glossip’s death sentence. It was last year, not earlier this year. It ...
State capital cases, or death penalty proceedings, cost state taxpayers 3.2 times more than noncapital cases on average, according to the 2017 study of the Oklahoma death penalty. More revealing ...
A pair of death row inmates in Oklahoma have asked to be executed by firing squad rather than lethal injection, arguing that the state’s deadly three-drug jab can result in “severe pain and ...