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The action at Lanark was an attack at Lanark, Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence in May 1297. The Scotsman William Wallace led an uprising against the English and killed the Sheriff of Lanark, William Heselrig. The attack was not an isolated incident, but rather saw Wallace joining in with uprisings taking place across Scotland.
William Guthrie, 1903– [9] Alastair Oswald Morison Mackenzie, 1917-1933 [10] [11] Sir Archibald Campbell Black, KC, 1937–1952 [12] [13] Sir Robert Henry Sherwood Calver, QC, 1952– [13] Sir Allan Grierson Walker, QC, 1963–74 [14] Sheriffdom replaced in 1975 by the sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway.
Glenn Ford (October 29, 1949 – June 29, 2015) was convicted of murder in 1984 and released from Angola Prison in March 2014 after a full exoneration. Ford was born in Shreveport, Louisiana . He was the longest serving death row inmate in the United States to be fully exonerated before his death. [ 1 ]
On Death Row is a television mini-series written and directed by Werner Herzog about capital punishment in the United States. The series grew out of the same project which produced Herzog's documentary film Into the Abyss. The series first aired in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2012, on Channel 4. [2]
In 2011, she married Peter Pringle, [7] who had himself been exonerated after being sentenced to death in Ireland for the murder of two officers of the Garda Síochána, the Irish police force, Henry Byrne and John Morley. The officers were shot while chasing three armed masked men who had robbed a bank and were fleeing the crime scene.
Follows the case of death row inmate Daniel Lee Lopez, who was convicted of murdering a Corpus Christi city police officer by hitting him with his SUV as he was trying to evade capture following a routine traffic stop. The programme follows, Lopez, his family and city officials in the weeks and months leading up to and after his execution.
During the prison's last decade of operation, it was used to house inmates short term. They were newly convicted and spent a few months at Mecklenburg before being classified based on their security risk and reassigned to other prisons. Death row was moved from this facility to Sussex I State Prison near Waverly, Virginia in 1997.
Prison officials escorted him on a commercial flight to Tulsa via Atlanta, Georgia, and then put him on a prison van to McAlester on January 11, 1995. [ 9 ] Grasso spent his last days on the normal prison schedule, confined for 23 hours a day to his 14 by 18-foot cell in the prison's Death Row (H-unit), which he shared with 49 other condemned men.