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Richard Brandon (died 20 June 1649) [a] was the common executioner of London from 1639 to 1649, who inherited that role from his father Gregory Brandon and was sometimes known as Young Gregory. [2] Richard Brandon is often named as the executioner of Charles I , though the executioner's identity is not definitively known.
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 February 5, 2025 Steven Lawayne Nelson: 37 24 13 Male Black Texas: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 February 6, 2025 Demetrius Terrence Frazier: 52 19 33 Alabama: Nitrogen hypoxia: Profile: 3 February 13, 2025 James Dennis Ford: 64 36 ...
From 1790 to 1963, there were 332 Federal, 271 Territorial and 40 Indian Tribunal executions according to the most complete records. [3] The youngest person executed was James Arcene on June 18, 1885, at the age of 23 for his role in a robbery and murder committed when he was 10 years old.
The title page of The Confession of Richard Brandon, a 1649 pamphlet claiming to reveal Richard Brandon as Charles I's executioner. [ 45 ] The identities of the executioner of Charles I and his assistant were never revealed to the public, with crude face masks and wigs hiding them at the execution, [ 46 ] and they were probably known only to ...
Richard J. Hirschfield was admitted to San Quentin's death row more than 30 years after he killed two UC Davis students. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
Jul. 1—Oklahoma's appeals court set execution dates Friday for death row inmate Richard Glossip and five others. State appellate judges ordered Friday an execution schedule of 25 inmates to be ...
Georgia late Wednesday executed a man for the first time since January 2020, joining other states that have revived the practice as the death penalty in the U.S. entered a new frontier of ...
The Newgate Calendar had a lasting legacy on early 19th-century crime fiction. Critics believed that the Calendars' publication would inspire copycat criminals and romanticize crime culture. There was a communal and social element to the stories.