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Excited to have contributed to this piece of important reporting- “How your local jail became hell” by Ryan L. Cooper of
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The Derbyshire village of Heage achieved a bit of lasting notoriety with the triple hanging on this date in 1843 of three of its felonious sons: Samuel...
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The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar [sic]
by Ted Hughes
Burned by Bloody Mary‘s Men at Caermarthen
“If I flinch from the pain of the burning, believe...
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The names of the Roman Empire’s various client kings are, when not utterly lost to history, deeply obscure to a present-day general audience. The...
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During the 19th century, the Temperance movement slowly developed throughout the British Empire and was based on concerns about the increasing numbers...
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At the Police History Society conference, September 2014
As some of you know, I present
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The frontier town Tombstone, Arizona saw its first legal hanging on this date in 1884 — and its second, third, fourth, and fifth besides.
On the...
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The press was agog in 1899, when it heard about Agnes Roselle Ingrouville.
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LEBANON, Tenn., March 27. — Mack Francis and James Turney, negroes, were hanged at 12.23 this afternoon for the murder of Lew Martin last summer....
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On this date in 1822, Hannah Halley went to the gallows at Derby for murdering her newborn child — by the gruesome expedient of pouring scalding...
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George Cudmore was on March 25, 1830 executed at Devon County Gaol, the present-day site of Exeter Prison.
Wanting to run off with his mistress, Cudmore...
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St Peters Church of England at Hamilton is one of the oldest existing churches in Australia, and even pre-dates the founding of Melbourne. Built of freestone...
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Austria’s last execution took place on this date in 1950. Johann Trnka, murderer of a 51-year-old widow and her maid — the late Hermine Kolle’s...
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On March 23, 1761, British highwayman Isaac Darkin — “Dumas” by a dashing alias — hanged at Oxford for robbery.
It might be Darkin’s...
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On this date in 1864, Kastus Kalinouski was hanged in a public square in Vilnius.
A peasant revolutionary from the European frontiers of tsarism, Kalinouski...
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Lyons Cottage was the early home of the Honourable Joseph Aloysius (Joe) Lyons. Lyons was Premier of Tasmania between 1921 and 1928. He went...
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A very quick post to note that I have an article in this volume, based on my presentation at the first Our Criminal Past event in 2013. But there’s...
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On this date in 1791, the Inquisition in Rome condemned magician Alessandro Cagliostro to death — a sentence immediately commuted to imprisonment...
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A Double Execution. Woodcut from Hindley’s “Curiosities of Street Literature” (1871), p.372. (Accessed via Google Books)
Recently I was...
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In 1839, a rather ludicrous case was heard at the Drumcondra Petty Sessions in Dublin regarding a goat stolen from a former policeman
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Dutch artisan Sikke Freriks, beheaded on this date in 1531 in Leeuwarden‘s market, was the first Anabaptist put to death in that Friesland city.
While...
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In what by this week’s measure constitutes a slackening pace, Pakistan hanged four more prisoners today, all for murder: Gulistan Zaman, Abdul Sattar,...
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Today, one day after hanging 12 of its 8,000 condemned prisoners, Pakistan extended its newfound mass-execution campaign. Nine more men went to the gallows...
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Today I am presenting one of my dissertation chapters at the Penn DCC workshop. When I first came across the story of Winston Moore, I was considering...
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The Star Inn was first licensed in 1839 and was sited about three doors down from Molle Street on the northern side of Goulburn Street. The Star Inn appears...
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Repudiating its former death penalty moratorium with bombast, the government of Pakistan hanged 12 men today.
From 2008 to 2014, Pakistan while continuing...
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Little secret has been made of the difficulties faced by Irish immigrants in Victorian England. More than a century and a half ago when England was a less...
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In modern day Australia there are two key heritage
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philly.com aerial photo of the House of Correction
In Philadelphia, there is news that the city
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Two inconsistent versions of a mass-murderer’s moniker in this American colonial news dispatch* can hardly detract from the horror of Jamaica’s...
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Martha Stracey or Tracey hanged at Tyburn on this date in 1745 for assaulting a man named Will Humphreys and robbing him of one single guinea a few months...
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The Green Ponds Store was built about 1840 by William Henry Ellis, an emancipated convict who had been transported for embezzlement. Ellis amassed a considerable...
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On this date in 1610, Henry Paine was executed on the island of Bermuda for mutiny.
Paine arrived on the island most unfortunately on the Sea Venture,...
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This tantalisingly brief piece in the Preston Guardian of 14 March 1846 caught my attention as I was searching for something else.
The relative...
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In an admittedly borderline “execution”, Louis de Bourbon, the Hugueunot Prince of Conde, was killed summarily at the end of the Battle of...
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David Cobb, Private, Company C, 827th Engineer Battalion (Aviation), on March 12, 1943 achieved the milestone distinction of becoming the first U.S. soldier...
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Acting on impulse: James Hill and his nephew's headWhen James Hill cut off his nephew's head, he was said to be suffering from homicidal mania and impulsive...
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Igo Sym tickles the ivories in Zona i nie zona (Wife and No Wife) … his last role.
On this date in 1941, the Germans occupying Poland took revenge...
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John Lee Archer (1791-1852), architect and engineer, was born on 26 April 1791, the only son of John Archer, an engineer of County Tipperary and Dublin,...
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On this date in 1899, Cordelia Poirier was hanged in Ste. Scholastique, Quebec with her lover Samuel Parslow.*
Cordelia Viau by her maiden name, the femme...
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In her last blog (http://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/02/05/the-politics-of-comparison-writing-a-global-history-of-punishment/), Clare Anderson...
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Radical Hussite Jan Zelivsky was beheaded on this date in 1422.
1952 memorial plaque of Zelivsky in Prague
Zelivsky (English Wikipedia entry | Czech),...
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On this date in 1715, the legendary outlaw Filip Mengstein was broken on the wheel in Dresden’s marketplace, along with four henchmen.
With the wiseguy...
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The roots of St John
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Building the Carceral State: Cook County Jail and the Local Origins of Mass Incarceration
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On this date in 1884, a Louisiana man named Noah Jackson was hanged at Lake Providence for beating in the brains of his 15-year-old wife during a fit of...
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William Swaine was a Hertfordshire farmer, who had grown accustomed to the help of his young niece around his Stevenage farm.
She had been living with...
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On this day last year, Al-Qaeda’s Ansar Al-Sharia group (Partisans of Islamic Law) executed an alleged American spy in the town of Shahr, in southeast...
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Missing Since 12th Jan 2015This historic Stone Horse Trough is one of the few remaining horse troughs still in its original position close to the road....
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This beautifully restored cottage is a wonderful part of the New Norfolk streetscape. It dates from about 1830 and from what I can understand, since being...
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