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The remains of executed prisoners were buried in unmarked graves within the prison walls, as was customary. In late 2003, after capital punishment had been abolished in the UK, the remains of Corbett, Roberts, Grossley, Evans, Wills and Singh were exhumed from the prison grounds and reburied elsewhere in order to make space for the construction of a new cell block.
Ruth Ellis (née Neilson; 9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a Welsh nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom following the fatal shooting of her lover, David Blakely.
Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 434 men and women between 1932 and 1955. This table records the locations of each of the executions he participated in, the numbers in brackets being the number of executions he was assistant executioner at (often assisting his uncle, Thomas Pierrepoint), the other numbers are those in ...
Francisco (1876) last execution in Brazil (former Empire of Brazil) Sidney Harry Fox (1930) Ronnie Lee Gardner (2010) Micheal Anak Garing (2019) Juan Garza (2001) Nirmal Jibon Ghosh (1934) Gary Gilmore (1977) first post-Gregg execution in Utah and in the United States; Barbara Graham (1955) John Grant (2021) Jimmy Lee Gray (1983) first post ...
Berwyn (2017) a Category C men's prison, located in Wrexham is the UK's largest prison with a capacity of 2,106. Berwyn is the Prison Service's flagship prison. Usk (1844) a Category C men's prison which also includes a satellite site Prescoed (1939) a Category D men's open prison; Cardiff (1832) a Category B men's prison,
A total of 15 judicial executions took place at Swansea prison between 1858 and 1958. [1] All of the condemned prisoners were hanged for the crime of murder. Their names, ages and dates of execution are: [2] Panotis Alepis, 23 yrs & Manoeli Selapatana, 28 yrs, 20 March 1858 (executioner: William Calcraft) First public hanging, at the front of ...
Pages in category "Executed English people" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 255 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
[40] [41] He was given the honorary military rank of lieutenant colonel and, on 13 December, he first executed the women individually, then the men two at a time. [ 42 ] [ d ] Pierrepoint travelled several times to Hamelin, and between December 1948 and October 1949 he executed 226 people, often over 10 a day, and on several occasions groups of ...