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Individual cases

(chronological)

Capital punishment in Britain.

Catherine Hayes

History of the death penalty in Britain

Complete listings of British executions

Sarah Malcolm

The origins of judicial hanging in Britain

England & Wales - 1900 - 1931 & 1932 - 1964

Jenny Diver

Timeline of British capital punishment

England & Wales 1868 - 1899 & 1837 - 1868

Elizabeth Harrard

The history of judicial hanging

England & Wales 1800 - 1827 & 1828 -1836

Mary Blandy

Timeline of a modern hanging

England & Wales 1735 – 1799 by circuit

Elizabeth Jeffries

The end of public hangings

Scotland 1800 -1899 & 1900 - 1963

Earl Ferrers

The reprieve system

Northern Ireland 1900 -1961

Elizabeth Brownrigg

Insanity and the death penalty

Southern Irish executions 1900 - 1954 & 1835 - 1899

Susannah Lott

Royal Commission Reports 1886 & 1953

Channel Islands and Isle of Man executions

Mary Jones

Abolition of capital punishment

The female hanged 1800 - 1868 & 1868 - 1955

Ann Beddingfield

Arguments for and against capital punishment (UK)

The female executed 1735 - 1799

Joseph Harris

Thoughts on crime and punishment

Executions at the Tower of London

Charlotte Gardiner

Thoughts on Human Rights

Hanged at Execution Dock

Elizabeth Taylor

Executions of children, juveniles & teenage girls

Hanging myths and facts

Phoebe Harris

The court system in England & Wales

The “half hanged”

Sarah Lloyd

English hangmen 1850 - 1964

The evolution of short drop hanging

Ann Hurle

Earlier hangmen

The evolution of long drop hanging 19th century

Elizabeth Godfrey

William Calcraft - hangman

The evolution of long drop hanging 20th century

Melinda Mapson

George Smith - hangman

Misjudged murderesses Part 1

Mary Bateman

Robert Evans - The Gentleman hangman

Misjudged murderesses Part 2

Edith Morrey

The Billingtons – A family of hangmen

Misjudged murderesses Part 3

Eliza Fenning

Women sentenced to death 20th century

Elizabeth Woolterton

 

Elizabeth Fricker

 

Charlotte Newman

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Sarah Polgrean

 

 

Infanticide (5 cases)

UK Capital punishment in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Catherine Kinrade

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John Thurtell

 

 

Jane Scott

 

 

Bel Mc’Menemy

 

 

William Corder

The death penalty in the USA

Jane Jameson

 

 

Charlotte Long

 

 

Arsenic poisoners

Hanged by the neck until you are dead!

Billy Bailey

William Jobling

Lethal Injection with specific cases opposite

Velma Barfeld, Karla Faye Tucker, Christina Riggs

Francois Courvosier

The electric chair with specific cases opposite

Toni Jo Henry, Nicholas Ingram & Judi Buenoano

The Bloody Steps

The gas chamber with specific cases opposite

Barbara Graham, Robert Alton Harris, Jimmy Gray

Mary Ann Burdock

Firing squad – Gilmore, Taylor & Gardner

Charlie Brooks - the first lethal injection

Rebecca Smith

Nitrogen hypoxia – Kenneth Smith

 

The Stackpooles

Timothy Judy - Indiana 1981

US executions updated monthly

Helen Blackwood

The American female hanged

Arguments for and against the death penalty (USA)

Abel Ovans

American female executions 1900 - 2021  Bios of them

The death penalty and deterrence in the USA

Elizabeth Browne

Kentucky murders 1897 - 1936

Hangmen at War - ebook free to download

Mary Reeder

Rainey Bethea - the last public hanging

US War crime hangings - list

Maria Manning

 

 

John Tawell

 

 

Catherine Foster

 

 

Victorian child murderers (9 cases)

 

 

Alice Holt

Present day execution  methods

Execution methods from times gone by

Catherine Wilson

 

 

Flowery Land Pirates

The process of judicial hanging

Burning at the stake

Mary Ann Ashford

Beheading

The garrote

Franz Műller

Lethal Injection

The guillotine

Frances Kidder

The electric chair

Hanging, drawing and quartering

Thomas Wells

Shooting and the firing squad

The Gallows Galleries

Alexander Mackay

The gas chamber

The Gallows Galleries 2

Priscilla Biggadyke

 

 

Margaret Shiel

 

 

Mary Ann Barry

 

William Horry

 

Mary Ann Cotton

 

Mary Williams

Histories of some English “hanging” prisons & places of execution

Frances Stewart

 

 

Elizabeth Pearson

 

 

Mary Lefley

Armley prison Leeds

Lincoln Castle

Selina Wadge

Beaumaris Gaol (Anglesey)

Maidstone prison

Catherine Churchill

Bodmin Gaol

Newgate prison

Kate Webster

Cardiff prison

Norwich prison

Charles Peace

Carmarthen Gaol

Oxford prison

Flanagan & Higgins

Derby’s three prisons

Pentonville prison

Alfred Sowery

Durham prison

Shepton Mallet prison

Robert Goodale

Gloucester prison

Shrewsbury prison

Mary Ann Britland

Hereford prison

Strangeways prison (Manchester)

Elizabeth Berry

Holloway prison

Swansea prison

Margaret Walber

Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Surrey

Walton prison (Liverpool)

Thomas Macdonald

Hull prison

Wandsworth prison

Phoenix Park cases

Kirkdale Gaol

Winson Green prison (Birmingham)

Louisa Jane Taylor

Knutsford Prison

Worcester Prison

Mary Wheeler

Lancaster Castle

Usk prison

Baby Farmers

Lewes prison

York castle prison

Milsom & Fowler

 

 

Mary Ann Ansell

19th century execution sites

Places of execution in the 20th century

Louise Masset

 

 

Ada Chard-Williams

 

 

John Parr

 

 

Emily Swann

 

 

Mary Daly

 

 

The Stratton brothers

 

 

William Foy

 

 

William Murphy

 

 

Rhoda Willis

Capital punishment worldwide

Edith Thompson

 

Susan Newell

 

Louie Calvert

Overview of the death penalty in 2022 

Executions worldwide updated monthly

Driscoll & Rowlands

Female executions 2020 to date

The female hanged 1988 to date

Annie Walsh

Female executions 2000 to 2019

Focus on executions in Kuwait

The Fowler brothers

Abolition of the death penalty in Europe

Spanish executions 1812 - 1975

Patrick Mahon

Last female executions in Europe

Australian executions 1870 - 1967

Ethel Lilly Major

The situation in Commonwealth countries

Singapore’s female hangings

Charlotte Bryant

Canadian hangings 1867 - 1962

Focus on executions in Switzerland

Nurse Waddingham

Nazi female war criminals

Portuguese executions 1833 -1863

Dr. Buck Ruxton

Women executed by the Nazis

British executions of war criminals at Hameln

Ostler & Appleby

 

 

Dashwood & Silverosa

 

James McNicol

 

 

Duncan Scott Ford

 

 

William Joyce

 

 

Theodore Schurch

 

 

Clifford Wills

 

 

Devlin & Burns

 

 

Walter Rowland

 

 

Margaret Allen

 

 

Norman Goldthorpe

 

 

Arthur Boyce

 

 

John George Haigh

 

 

Derek Bentley

 

 

Louisa Merrifield

Some cases from around the world

Styllou Christofi

 

 

Ruth Ellis

Irma Grese - Nazi war criminal

The Toa Payoh ritual murders in Singapore

John Vickers

Juana Borman - Nazi war criminal

Angel Pui Peng - hanged in Singapore for drugs

Dennis Howard

Jean Lee - the last woman hanged in Australia

Flor Contemplacion - hanged in Singapore

Vivian Teed

Hilda Blake - the only woman hanged in Manitoba

John Scripps - hanged in Singapore for murder

Peter Manuel

Cordelia Viau - Quebec in Canada

Sandra Smith - last woman hanged in South Africa

Ronald Marwood

Shahla Jahed - executed in Iran in 2010

Mona Fandey - hanged in Malaysia for murder

Guenther Podola

Olga Hepnarová hanged in Czechoslovakia

Mariette Bosch - Botswana

Francis Forsyth

Marie Fikáčková - serial baby killer

Nasra al-Enezi - Kuwait

Victor John Terry

Elina Zlatanova - Bulgaria’s last female execution

Minnie Dean - New Zealand baby farmer

Henry John Burnett

 

 

Robert McGladdery

 

 

James Hanratty

 

 

Pascoe & Whitty

Links, about the author and bibliography

Allen and Evans

 

 

 

Links to other interesting sites

About the author and bibliography