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Onlookers during the execution of Rowlands and Driscoll in 1928. HM Prison Cardiff (Welsh: Carchar Caerdydd EF) is a Category B men's prison, located in the Adamsdown area of Cardiff, Wales. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
HM Prison Cardiff in 2010 The prisons in Wales are run by His Majesty's Prison Service , which is in turn a part of HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) which is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice responsible for the correctional services in England and Wales .
Pages in category "Execution sites in the United Kingdom" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... HM Prison Cardiff;
This was the last public execution in England to be held at the scene of the crime. [136] 13 August 1831: Dic Penderyn was hanged on the gallows at St. Mary's Street, Cardiff for allegedly participating in the Merthyr Rising. 21 March 1834: George Capel was hanged in Aylesbury for bestiality, the last known execution for bestiality in England ...
His Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) is a part of HM Prison and Probation Service (formerly the National Offender Management Service), which is the part of His Majesty's Government charged with managing most of the prisons within England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own prison services: the Scottish Prison Service and the ...
A total of 15 judicial executions took place at Swansea prison between 1858 and 1958. [1] All of the condemned prisoners were hanged for the crime of murder. Their names, ages and dates of execution are: [2] Panotis Alepis, 23 yrs & Manoeli Selapatana, 28 yrs, 20 March 1858 (executioner: William Calcraft) First public hanging, at the front of ...
Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 434 men and women between 1932 and 1955. This table records the locations of each of the executions he participated in, the numbers in brackets being the number of executions he was assistant executioner at (often assisting his uncle, Thomas Pierrepoint), the other numbers are those in ...
Ruth Ellis (née Neilson; 9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a Welsh nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom following the fatal shooting of her lover, David Blakely.