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The method of execution in Austria was hanging until the annexation by Nazi Germany (1938-1945) when it was replaced by the guillotine. After World War II, hanging was re-introduced by the British. The last person to be executed in Austria was Johann Trnka. He was hanged on 24 March 1950 for the crime of murder. Capital punishment was abolished ...
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It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The three Gusen concentration camps in and around the village of St. Georgen/Gusen , just a few kilometres from Mauthausen, held a significant proportion of prisoners within the camp complex, at times exceeding the ...
In Canada, hanging is the most common method of suicide, [21] and in the U.S., hanging is the second most common method, after self-inflicted gunshot wounds. [22] In the United Kingdom, where firearms are less easily available, in 2001 hanging was the most common method among men and the second most commonplace among women (after poisoning).
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Jack Unterweger was born August 16, 1950, in Judenburg, Styria, [1] [2] to Theresia Unterweger, a Viennese barmaid and waitress, and Jack Becker, an American soldier whom she had met in the Italian city of Trieste. [3]
Rainey Bethea, last public hanging in Kentucky, for rape and murder (14 August 1936) Roscoe "Red" Jackson, last public hanging in U.S., for murder (21 May 1937) Udham Singh, Indian revolutionary (31 July 1940) Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (9 April 1945) Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard and war criminal (13 December 1945)