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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
It was found to be an inside job involving 4 employees, with another guard Apolonio Adriano as the killer; they were convicted and sentenced to death in 1966. [60] Culatingan massacre 13 June 1966: Culatingan, Concepcion, Tarlac: 5 (all farmers) Three Philippine Constabulary (PC) agents shot 7 farmers; 2 of them survived. Authorities said that ...
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.
Forsyth, who claimed his girlfriend Margaret Caitlin was expecting his child in January 1961, [2] was the last 18-year-old to be hanged in Britain. 19-year-old Anthony Miller became the last teenager to be executed in Britain when he was hanged in Glasgow just over a month later, on 22 December 1960. Three other eighteen-year-olds were executed ...