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James Berry (8 February 1852 – 21 October 1913) was an English executioner from 1884 until 1891. Berry was born in Heckmondwike in the West Riding of Yorkshire , where his father worked as a wool-stapler .
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The executioner, Jack Ketch, later wrote a letter of apology for conducting the execution poorly due to being distracted. [citation needed] James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (1685) – Beheading by axe. Jack Ketch took between five and eight strokes to behead him. [citation needed] John Smith (1705) – Hanging (attempted). He survived after ...
The women held her on the trapdoors while James Berry prepared her for execution. Two male wardens then took the place of the female wardens. On a signal from the executioner, they quickly stepped back, the trap door was released and Britland dropped. [8] She was the first woman to be executed at Strangeways Prison in Manchester.
Nevertheless, the executioner James Berry promoted the idea that Bury was the Ripper. [68] Berry did not include Bury or the Ripper in his memoirs, My Experiences as an Executioner , [ 82 ] but Ernest A. Parr, a journalist in the Suffolk town of Newmarket , wrote to the Secretary of State for Scotland on 28 March 1908 that Berry "told me ...
The dismantling of USAID by the Trump administration means there are no staff to process waivers submitted by food and other aid organizations hoping to resume operations under humanitarian ...
Thomas Henry Scott was an English executioner from 1889 to 1901. He was from Huddersfield in Yorkshire. A ropemaker by trade, he acted as executioner on seventeen occasions. He was on the Home Office list of approved executioners from 1892 to 1895. [1] Scott was an assistant executioner for James Berry as early as 1889. [2]
1 I would like to thank Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. and Congresswomen Sheila Jackson Lee, Frederica Wilson and Corrine Brown for inviting the American Civil Liberties