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  2. HM Prison Cardiff - Wikipedia

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    Onlookers during the execution of Rowlands and Driscoll in 1928 HM Prison Cardiff (Welsh: Carchar Caerdydd EF ) is a Category B men's prison , located in the Adamsdown area of Cardiff , Wales . The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service .

  3. List of people who were executed - Wikipedia

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    Martinsville Seven (1951) group of seven men convicted of gang rape; William McGee (1951) Julius Morgan (1916) Jeremiah Reeves (1958) Mustapha Tabet (1993) police commissioner convicted of the kidnap and sexual assault of over 500 women, last execution in Morocco; Mervyn Tuchet (1631)

  4. Ruth Ellis - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Category : 20th-century executions by the United Kingdom

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    People executed by a jurisdiction of the United Kingdom from 1901–2000. People should also be placed in the appropriate subcategory of the by-jurisdiction categories: Category:People executed by England and Wales; Category:People executed by Northern Ireland; Category:People executed by Scotland; Category:People executed by the British military

  6. Locations of executions conducted by Albert Pierrepoint

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    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 ...

  7. Prisons in Wales - Wikipedia

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    Cardiff (1832) a Category B men's prison, Parc (1997) a Category B men's private prison and Young Offenders Institution, based in Bridgend, is Wales' only privatised prison and is presently run by G4S, Swansea (1861) a Category B/C men's prison. Wales has no prison for either women or Category A offenders, who must be housed in gaols in England.

  8. Styllou Christofi - Wikipedia

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    Styllou Christofi was born in Cyprus, then a British protectorate, to a Cypriot family. She grew up in a small, isolated village and received no formal education. According to British historian and crime author Philip Jones, the insularity of Cypriot villages such as the one Christofi was from meant that personal disagreements and arguments among residents were seen as local matters, and could ...

  9. List of most recent executions by jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    20 unnamed men and one unnamed woman terrorism: hanging: B Israel: 31 May 1962: Adolf Eichmann: crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people hanging: D Japan: 26 July 2022 [124] Tomohiro Katō: murder: hanging: D Jordan: 4 March 2017 [125] 15 unnamed men murder and terrorism: hanging: B Kazakhstan: 2003: D Kuwait: 5 September 2024 ...