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  2. Capital punishment in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    After the Norman conquest of Ireland, English law provided the model for Irish law. This originally mandated a death sentence for any felony, a class of crimes established by common law but, in Ireland as in England, was extended by various Acts of Parliament; [4] a situation later dubbed the "Bloody Code".

  3. Genealogical Office - Wikipedia

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    The coat of arms of Ulster King of Arms, who preceded the Chief Herald of Ireland. Taken from Lant's Roll. The Genealogical Office is an office of the Government of Ireland containing genealogical records. It includes the Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland (Irish: Príomh Aralt na hÉireann), [1] the authority in Ireland for heraldry.

  4. Bloody Code - Wikipedia

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    Gradually during the middle of the nineteenth century the number of capital offences was reduced, and by 1861 was down to five. The last execution in the UK took place in 1964, and the death penalty was legally abolished in the following years for the crimes of: Murder, 1969 in England, Wales and Scotland, and 1973 in Northern Ireland

  5. Penal laws (Ireland) - Wikipedia

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    James Stuart, the son of James II, the "Old Pretender", was recognised by the Holy See as the legitimate King of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1766, and Catholics were obliged to support him. He also approved the appointments of all the Irish Catholic hierarchy, who were drawn from his most fervent supporters. These aspects ...

  6. Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 - Wikipedia

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    The Act for the Setling of Ireland imposed penalties including death and land confiscation against Irish civilians and combatants after the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and subsequent unrest. British historian John Morrill wrote that the Act and associated forced movements represented "perhaps the greatest exercise in ethnic cleansing in early ...

  7. List of most recent executions by jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Ireland: 20 April 1954 [154] Michael Manning: murder: hanging: A Italy: 5 March 1947 [162] Aurelio Gallo, Emilio Battisti and Achille Morelli war crimes: firing squad: A Kosovo: 20 November 1987 (as a province of Yugoslavia) Ahmet Paqarizi [163] murder firing squad: A Latvia: 26 January 1996 [154] Rolands Laceklis-Bertmanis: murder: single ...

  8. Islandmagee witch trial - Wikipedia

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    William Sellor, husband of Janet Liston and father of Elizabeth Sellor, was tried at the summer assizes in September 1711, and also convicted. No official records of the trials and verdict are known to exist; any that survived until 1922 were likely burnt in the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland during the Irish Civil War. [1]

  9. Michael Stone (loyalist) - Wikipedia

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    Michael Anthony Stone (born 2 April 1955) is a British former militant who was a member of the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. He was convicted of three counts of murder committed at an IRA funeral in 1988. In 2000 he was released from prison on licence under the Good Friday Agreement. [1]

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