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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 .
Nadifa Mohamed, The Fortune Men, Viking (2021). Chris Phillips, Hanged for the Word If: The murder of Lily Volpert and the execution of Mahmood Hussein Mattan, the author (2020). David Thomas, Seek Out the Guilty, Long (1969) (chapter on the murder of Granville George Jenkins by Tahir Gass). Geoff Tibballs, Legal Blunders, Robinson (2000).
Rhoda Willis (1907) last woman executed in Wales; Mimi Wong, the first female offender to be executed in Singapore since its independence in 1965 (1973) Joseph Wood (2014) Nathaniel Woods (2020) Eric Wrinkles (2009) Edmund Zagorski (2018) Keith Zettlemoyer (1995) first post-Gregg execution in Pennsylvania; William G. Zuern Jr. (2004)
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.
6 April 1835: Ursula Lofthouse was hanged in York for the murder of her husband by poisoning, the last woman to be executed in Yorkshire [138] 10 August 1835: The Burnham Market poisoners Catherine Frary and Frances Billing were hanged at the gates of Norwich Castle. The last double public execution of women.
Cardiff (1832) a Category B men's prison, Parc (1997) a Category B men's private prison and Young Offenders Institution, based in Bridgend, is Wales' only privatised prison and is presently run by G4S, Swansea (1861) a Category B/C men's prison. Wales has no prison for either women or Category A offenders, who must be housed in gaols in England.
While Murphy has admitted to killing the woman, he has fervently denied that he committed the robberies and the kidnapping. A “death chamber” used for an execution in Huntsville, Texas back in ...
The Fortune Men is a non-fiction novel that semi-fictionalises the true story of Mahmood Hussein Mattan, a Somali former merchant seaman who was executed after being wrongfully convicted of the 6 March 1952 murder of Lily Volpert (renamed Violet Volacki in the book) in Cardiff's Tiger Bay. Mattan was posthumously acquitted in 1998 when it was ...