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Hanging has been the execution method of choice for murder in far more countries than just the UK. This section focuses on judicial hangings in the 20th century around the world. Worldwide Hangings: December Execution By Hanging: 1/12/1922 James Mahoney – USA Although wealthy Kate Mooers was 68 years old, she didn’t baulk at taking a husband 30 years younger, and setting off on April 16th, 1921, on her honeymoon. That was the last any of her relatives saw ... more » Execution By Hanging: 2/12/1973 Larry Tacklyn and Erskine Burrows – Bermuda Sir Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda, was taking his great dane Horsa for a walk outside Bermuda’s government house after a dinner party on March 10th, 1973, when he was ambushed and gunned down ... more » Execution By Hanging: 3/12/1901 Charles Brown – USA A German sailor who jumped ship in New York to become an illegal immigrant, Charles Brown (then called Kurt Braun) teamed up with a gang of three Manhattan burglars and lived off the proceeds of his c... more » Execution By Hanging: 3/12/1990 Hussein Soodman – Iran Under the Islamic law of apostasy a Muslim who converts to Christianity faces the death penalty. This was the fate of one of Iran’s leading Protestant pastors, the Rev. Hussein Soodman, who had been i... more » Execution By Hanging: 3/12/1998 Rasha and Abeer Ibrahim – Jordan For a small country Jordan has executed a surprising number of women in recent times. There were 103 civilian executions between 1994 and 2004, nine of them involving women. Executions are carried ou... more » Execution By Hanging: 5/12/1955 Albert Black – New Zealand New Zealanders called Britain’s 1950s Teddy Boys “Bodgies,” and they didn’t like them very much. Two Bodgies who got through the immigration net were Albert Black, 18, and Alan Jacques, who was 19 on ... more » Execution By Hanging: 8/12/1905 Mary Rogers – USA Tired already at the age of 19 of her respectable married life, Mary Rogers, of Bennington, Vermont, set her sights on three objectives – murdering her husband Marcus, collecting the $600 life insuran... more » Execution By Hanging: 9/12/1988 Sek Kim Wah – Singapore “I’ve always wanted to die on the gallows. It must be thrilling to be hanged.” So said Singapore national serviceman Sek Kim Wah, 24, and at Changi Prison, Singapore, on Friday, December 9th, 1988, hi... more » Execution By Hanging: 10/12/1929 John Feltovic – USA Store manager Lester Jacobs reacted valiantly when two intruders held him up with a revolver while he was making last entries in his ledger book late at night. He picked up a pair of scales and flung ... more » Execution By Hanging: 11/12/1957 Joseph-Pierre Richard – Canada Very few people in New Charlo, New Brunswick, liked Joseph-Pierre Richard – most in fact were scared of him. He had just been released from prison for attempted murder and there was no knowing what he... more » Execution By Hanging: 11/12/1962 Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas – Canada A hold-up man who snatched $632 from the till of the Red Rooster restaurant in Toronto in February, 1962, got clean away – until a traffic cop pulled him in for a broken taillight. The hold-up man, Ro... more » Execution By Hanging: 11/12/1970 Nishiguchi Akira – Japan A best-selling, prize-winning “documentary novel,” and a film made from it, tell the story of Nishiguchi Akira, who went on a 78-day crime spree across Japan in late 1963, murdering five people. The b... more » Execution By Hanging: 11/12/1980 Peter Barber – South Africa Mrs. Helen Jones suddenly upped stakes from her Hastings home in 1971 and, together with her 12-year-old daughter, left her husband to go and live in South Africa. The attraction there was a man named... more » Execution By Hanging: 11/12/1917 Frank Johnson and 12 other black soldiers – USA A race riot began in Houston, Texas, on August 23rd, 1917, when a white civil policeman who was arresting a black soldier hit a black military policeman, Corporal Charles Baltimore, over the head. A r... more » Execution By Hanging: 14/12/1905 Charles Hagen, Simeon Espada and Pablo Marques – Australia Pearl fishing was a lucrative way of making money off the Western Australian coastline in the early part of the 20th century, and thieving was a regular accompaniment to it. Three thieves, Charles Hag... more » Execution By Hanging: 14/12/1973 Hatiduduzi Guvamantanga and Rivers Chimunondo – Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) For the murders, in different incidents, of two white farmers, two black Zimbabweans, Hatiduduzi Guvamantanga and Rivers Chimunondo were hanged in Salisbury Central Prison on Friday, December 14th, 19... more » Execution By Hanging: 15/12/1937 Everett Farmer – Canada A 35-year-old black farm labourer from Shellbourne, Nova Scotia, shot dead his stepbrother, claiming self-defence because his kinsman had grabbed a glass, intending to strike him. Everett Farmer kill... more » Execution By Hanging: 17/12/1999 Kazuo Sagawa and Terou Ono – Japan Executions in Japan are carried out in secret, and the world only hears about them after they have taken place. On Friday, December 17th, 1999, Kazuo Sagawa, 48, was hanged at Tokyo Central Prison, an... more » Execution By Hanging: 18/12/1936 George McKeever – USA Two career criminals who shot dead two highway patrolmen at a roadblock after a bank robbery in Mexico, Missouri, were pursued during a 17-month manhunt throughout the United States. Police Sergeant ... more » Execution By Hanging: 19/12/1943 Reinhard Retzlav – Ukraine The first German war criminals of the Second World War were given a four-day trial at the Kharkov theatre in Ukraine in December 1943, before a capacity audience of 6,000. The accused were represented... more » Execution By Hanging: 20/12/1916 Frank Franz and Roland Kennedy – Australia A row between the hangman and the Australian law administration authorities broke out when two men involved in the murder of a cop were sentenced to death. It was customary to pay the hangman £5 5s. f... more » Execution By Hanging: 20/12/1920 Samuel Thorne – New Zealand Diagnosed in early 1917 with diabetes, New Zealand farmer Sydney Eyre was told to take a long sea voyage for the sake of his health. He certainly made the most of it. Leaving his wife Millicent to r... more » Execution By Hanging: 20/12/1974 Mun See Kwang – South Korea August 15th is celebrated as national liberation day in South Korea – the day the country was freed from Japanese rule. This was the day chosen in 1974 by Japanese assassin Mun See Kwang to kill the S... more » Execution By Hanging: 21/12/1908 John Zett – USA Most people who make an irrevocable financial decision know what it’s like when the gnawing doubts set in. So it was with John Zett. He arrived in America from Bohemia, worked as a coal miner, saved h... more » Execution By Hanging: 21/12/1953 Harold Whiteland – New Zealand Nineteen-year-old Dorothy Haldane guessed there was something a bit odd about Harold Whiteland when he suggested to her that her fiancé should be put to sleep for his own good. Dorothy was the bookin... more » Execution By Hanging: 22/12/1905 Edwin Tapley – USA People sometimes want to get married for the strangest reasons. After Edwin Tapley, 25, had fallen head over heels in love with Minnie Jennings, 23, he discovered that she had strings of lovers all ov... more » Execution By Hanging: 23/12/1925 Petrus Hauptfleisch – South Africa “Help! My mother has been burnt in the kitchen fire!” The cry of distress echoed down the street where Petrus Hauptfleisch lived with his 67-year-old mother in Richmond, Cape Province, and brought nei... more » Execution By Hanging: 23/12/1948 Hideki Tojo – Japan The attack on the US Pacific fleet’s base at Pearl Harbor is regarded as one of the great acts of wartime treachery, and the man who ordered it, Japan’s Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, was seized as a war... more » Execution By Hanging: 30/12/1932 Daisy de Melker – South Africa The two husbands of Daisy de Melker died remarkably similar deaths, and both of them died in agony. The reason was that Mrs. de Melker poisoned them with strychnine in order to collect on their estate... more » Execution By Hanging: 30/12/1997 Unnamed prisoners – South Korea On Tuesday, December 30th, 1997, South Korea hanged five unnamed women and 18 unnamed men for various murders. Since then, there have been no executions in the country. A sort of unofficial moratoriu... more »
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