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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.
For example, at the time of this writing, Melvin D. Bonnell, Jr.'s March 18, 2021 execution, Quisi Bryan's October 26, 2022 execution, Charles Lorraine's March 15, 2023 execution, Gerald Robert Hand's May 17, 2023 execution, Michael D. Webb's July 19, 2023 execution, Jerome Henderson's September 14, 2023 execution, Bomani Shakur's November 16 ...
The image of Charles's execution was central to the cult of St. Charles the Martyr, a major theme in English royalism of this period. Shortly after Charles's death, relics of Charles's execution were reported to perform miracles—with handkerchiefs of Charles's blood supposedly curing the King's Evil among peasants. [90]
President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 people on federal death row, leaving only three “hard cases” before President-elect Trump takes the White House on Jan. 20. The 37 ...
Richard Rojem claims he is innocent. ... The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday scheduled an execution date for a convicted child murderer who has been on death row almost 40 years ...
The execution is set to be carried out by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Rojem had faced execution on Oct. 5, 2023, under a schedule released in 2022 for 25 inmates.
Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions carried out in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign state gained independence are not included. The colours on the map correspond to and have the same meanings as the colours in the charts.
The Trump administration on Thursday carried out its ninth federal execution of the year and the first during a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years, putting to death a Texas street-gang ...