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Thomas Pole (b. aft. 1519 or in 1520), married Elizabeth Wingfield. Without issue. Henry Pole (b. aft. 1520 or in 1521 – aft. September 1542), married Margaret Neville. According to Alison Weir he was born in 1527. He was imprisoned from an early age at the Tower of London until his death. [7] Winifred Pole (b. aft. 1521 or in 1525), married
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of California since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia, the following 13 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of California. [1]
When she was 14 years old, Henry VII arranged her marriage to his favoured cousin and loyal servant, Richard Pole, [21] who was 11 years her senior and from a gentry family. [23] Whilst Richard's mother Edith St. John [ 23 ] was an older half-sister of the King's mother, Margaret Beaufort , [ 24 ] making him from a Lancastrian supporting family ...
The king, with Reginald Pole himself out of his reach, took revenge on Pole's family for engaging in treason by word against the king. The leading family members and even Pole's mother, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, were executed, and all their properties seized. The action destroyed the Pole family. [4]
California hasn’t executed a condemned prisoner in nearly 20 years, but prosecutors continue to seek the death penalty, leading to court costs of more than $300 million in the last five years ...
Robert Alton Harris (1992) first post-Gregg execution in California; Bruno Hauptmann (1936) Haw Tua Tau (1982) Neville Heath (1946) Gary M. Heidnik (1999) most recent execution in Pennsylvania; Dustin Higgs (2021) most recent execution by the United States federal government; Joe Hill (1915) Paul Jennings Hill (2003) Taberon Honie (2024) most ...
Rainey Bethea was executed for the rape and murder of 70-year-old Lischa Edwards. The execution was presided over by the first female sheriff in Kentucky, Florence Shoemaker Thompson. [101] [102] In California, Clinton Duffy, who served as warden of San Quentin State Prison between 1940 and 1952, presided over ninety executions. [103]
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