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On This Day in 1945 - Lena Baker suffers Jim Crow justice.
The case of Lena Baker, the only woman electrocuted in Georgia and, until Kelly Renee Gissendaler in 2015, the only woman executed there at all, is a prime example of Jim Crow justice. Granted, Baker was later issued a full, unconditional pardon (albeit decades too late), but she clearly should never have died in the first place. Born in Cuthbert, Georgia on June 8, 1901, Baker came into theâŠ
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Rainey Bethea - Americaâs Last Public Execution
Rainey Bethea probably isnât an instantly familiar name, but he holds as unique a status in American crime as names like William Kemmler (the first man to be electrocuted) or Martha Place (Old Sparkyâs first female victim). But his place in the annals of American crime is secured not by his being first, but last, the last American convict to suffer the indignity of a public execution. Born inâŠ
Spencer Perceval - England's only Prime Minister to be assassinated.
Assassination of important and powerful political figures is nothing new and neither is it particularly rare. Four American Presidents, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Tsar Nicholas IIâs entire family are a tiny percentage of public figures who died by the hand of an assassin. Assassination, either to advance a cause or settle personal grievance (real or imagined)âŠ
A matter of 'honour' - Englad's last duel to the death.
Duelling was once an accepted practice in both European and American society. When two gentlemen had a disagreement, âa matter of honorâ in the language of the time, they would agree to meet and fight with either swords or pistols according to a strictly-defined code of conduct. The âCode Duelloâ rigidly defined the rules and etiquette for such occasions. After all, gentlemen were gentlemen andâŠ
'Baby Face' Nelson - Public Enemy Number One
Meet Lester Joseph Gillis, AKA âGeorge Nelson,â AKA âBaby Faceâ Nelson though never to his face. It was a nickname he personally hated and, considering his hair-trigger temper and extraordinary capacity for senseless violence, was one people seldom used. A career criminal and homicidal sadist, Nelson had inherited the dubious mantle of âPublic Enemy Number Oneâ in 1934 after the death of sometimeâŠ
Masters of The Noose
November 26, 1940, Bedford Prison, England, 8am. Two experienced executioners, Thomas Pierrepoint and his nephew Albert, walk into the condemned cell and collect the comatose William Cooper from his cell and strap his arms behind his back. Cooper, only five feet five inches tall and weighing only 136 pounds, is unable to handle what is about to happen. He is catatonic and barely conscious,hisâŠ
Out with a bang. The Rayleigh Bath Chair Murder
On July 23, 1943 occurred one of the most bizarre and spectacular murders in British criminal history. Archibald Brown was a bitter, bullying, tyrannical and violent man who spent years ruling his family with a rod of iron. Even after a serious motorcycle accident left him permanently confined to a wheelchair his temperament remained as unpleasant and autocratic as ever. Always ready with choiceâŠ
Franz Muller, Britain's first railway murderer
It was just after 10pm on July 9, 1864 that Alfred Eakin was driving a train towards Fenchurch Street Station when he saw 69-year old city banker Thomas Briggs lying beside the tracks. Eakin stopped his train and checked to see if Briggs was still alive and moved him to the nearest safe place, the âMitford Castleâ pub. Later renamed the âTop OâThe Morning,â that pub has long since closed, but aâŠ
'Handsome' Harry Pierpont, the real leader of the Dillinger Gang.
John Dillinger is a name familiar to everybody. Leader of the âTerror Gang,â bank robber, escape artist, thief, killer, media darling and criminal icon. The very name represents lawlessness, violence, thievery and celebrity. Except that he wasnât quite the criminal colossus that many seem to think he was. Even the 1973 movie âDillingerâ and the more recent âPublic Enemiesâ take liberties withâŠ
James French, last in Oklahoma to ride the lightning.
Just as Henry Bookman was Oklahomaâs first, James D French was its last. After him Old Sparky would gather dust in storage, then as a museum piece. It has long outlived the 82 men who sat in it and causes controversy to this day. Henry Bookman, on December 10, 1915, was the first convict in Oklahoma to die in the electric chair. Fast forward to 1966, 51 years and 81 convicts later, and JamesâŠ
Henry Bookman, Oklahoma's first electocution.
Not a name many readers will be familiar with, I know, but this otherwise unexceptional killer made Oklahoma history on December 10, 1915. He wasnât just Oklahomaâs first convict to take a seat in Oklahoma State Penitentiaryâs newly-built âOld Sparky,â but the first of 82 in Oklahoma and the very first inmate electrocuted West of the Mississippi. Unlike Eastarn States like New York, PennsylvaniaâŠ
Chicago Joe and the Showgirl.
The squalid crime spree of British delinquent Elizabeth Jones (AKA âGeorgina Graysonâ) and US Army deserter Karl Gustav Hulten in wartime Britain isnât notable for many things. It lasted just a few days before a few petty thefts and attempted muggings resulted in capital murder, but it did inspire one of George Orwellâs best-known essays (âThe Decline of the English Murderâ). The case alsoâŠ
Leanderess Riley - Horror in the 'coughing box.'
San Quentinâs gas chamber saw nothing worse than this. A name now largely forgotten even by anybody that heard of him in the first place. Largely forgotten for his crime, anyway, but not his punishment. As career criminals go Riley was nothing special, just another bottom-feeding stick-up artist. He was virtually deaf, had one eye, was barely literate, only five feet tall and weighed only eightyâŠ
Anna Antonio, an abused wife or 'Evil little Anna'? Or perhaps both?
âI know Iâm going to die. I donât mind now. There never was any real hope.â â Anna Antonio, hours before her execution. Seldom remembered today, Anna Antonio is interesting not for her crime (which was a typically squalid murder) but for what law and society made her endure after committing it. Married to railroad worker and suspected drug dealer Salvatore Antonio, their marriage certainlyâŠ
William Taylor - The Man Who Died Twice.
âThey would have done better using an axe.â â George Westinghouse on the worldâs first judicial electrocution, that of William Kemmler at Auburn Prison, New York, on August 6, 1890. Had convict William Taylor survived the events of July 27, 1893 he might well have agreed. Unfortunately for him he didnât, nor did the then-new electric chair provide a quicker, cleaner death than the gallows mightâŠ