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A family friend told how for every night until his death the former inspector had been haunted by the shootings of his colleagues. [3] It is widely believed that the same gang had violently robbed the British Linen Bank in nearby Williamwood for £20,000 a few months earlier, along with a fourth man, getaway driver Archibald McGeachie.
Leo Pilo Echegaray (11 July 1960 – 5 February 1999) was the first Filipino to be executed after the reinstatement of the death penalty in the Philippines in 1993, some 23 years after the last judicial execution was carried out.
As a 19-year-old Miller was legally an adult, and because the murder had taken place during the course of a robbery (Cremin had been robbed of his watch, bankbook and £67), [5] he was eligible for the death penalty under the terms of the Homicide Act 1957. Accordingly, he was sentenced to death by Lord Wheatley, the trial judge. However, as a ...
A serial rapist is someone who commits multiple rapes, whether with multiple victims or a single victim repeatedly over a period of time.This list does not include serial killers who raped their victims, then killed them; only serial rapists who non-fatally attacked their victims and raped them should be included here.
Gilchrist, an 82-year-old woman who lived in the West End of Glasgow, was bludgeoned to death. Despite her affluence, only a diamond brooch was stolen. Oscar Slater was suspected because he went to America and tried to pawn a brooch. He was wrongfully convicted in 1909, and this conviction was quashed in 1928.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
An old Philippine embarkation card (erroneously) warning visitors of the death penalty for drug trafficking after the abolition. The caveat has since been deleted in subsequent versions. On April 15, 2006, the sentences of 1,230 death row inmates were simultaneously commuted to life imprisonment , which Amnesty International believes to be the ...
Zimbabwe’s Cabinet has agreed to back a move in Parliament to abolish the death penalty, a punishment that was last used in the southern African nation nearly 20 years ago. ... In 2022, Zimbabwe ...