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  2. List of people who died by hanging - Wikipedia

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    Rainey Bethea, last public hanging in Kentucky, for rape and murder (14 August 1936) Roscoe "Red" Jackson, last public hanging in U.S., for murder (21 May 1937) Udham Singh, Indian revolutionary (31 July 1940) Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (9 April 1945) Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard and war criminal (13 December 1945)

  3. Category:Films about capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison; The Execution of Gary Glitter; The Execution of Private Slovik; The Executioner (1963 film) The Executioner's Song (film) The Exonerated; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

  4. Suicide of Amanda Todd - Wikipedia

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    The original video has had more than 15 million views as of May 2023, [11] although mirrored copies of the video had received tens of millions of additional views shortly after her death; additionally, a YouTube video by React has a video of teens reacting to Todd's video which has garnered 44.7 million views as of May 2023, [12] and various ...

  5. Hanging - Wikipedia

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    Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a standard method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and has been the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer's Odyssey. [1] Hanging is also a method of ...

  6. Ruth Ellis - Wikipedia

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    Just before 9:00am on 13 July, the hangman Albert Pierrepoint and his assistant entered her cell and took her to the adjacent execution room where she was hanged. [27] There was a momentary delay, due to a hoax call being made to the prison. The hoaxer claimed to be the private secretary to Lloyd George, and that there had been a stay of execution.

  7. Horrifying video shows French tourist executed by ISIS-linked ...

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    By RYAN GORMAN An ISIS-offshoot based in Algeria has executed a French hostage after previously threatening to kill him over France's participation in airstrikes over Iraq. Herve Gourdel, 55, was ...

  8. Billy Bailey - Wikipedia

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    Billy Bailey (January 1947 – January 25, 1996) was a convicted murderer who was hanged in Delaware in 1996. He became the third person to be hanged in the United States since 1965 (the previous two were Charles Rodman Campbell and Westley Allan Dodd, both in Washington), and the first person hanged in Delaware in 50 years.

  9. Mona Mahmudnizhad - Wikipedia

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    The video was distributed throughout the music scene and was effective in bringing the persecution of BaháΚΌís in Iran to international public attention. [ 1 ] A play based on Mahmudnizhad's story titled A Dress for Mona has been produced [ 3 ] and in 2008 Jack Lenz planned to produce a film called Mona's Dream, which won an award in 2010. [ 9 ]