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Australia Square Tower, Australia's first true skyscraper, is completed. [ 30 ] In an exceptionally dry year across Victoria, South Australia and southwestern New South Wales, Melbourne records only 332.3 millimetres (13.08 in) [ 31 ] and Adelaide only 257.8 millimetres (10.15 in), [ 32 ] in both cases this being the driest year on record by a ...
Ronald Joseph Ryan (21 February 1925 – 3 February 1967) was the last person to be legally executed in Australia.Ryan was found guilty of shooting and killing warder George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison, Victoria, in 1965.
Australian law prohibits the extradition or deportation of a prisoner to another jurisdiction if they could be sentenced to death for any crime. [2] The last execution in Australia took place in 1967, when Ronald Ryan was hanged in Victoria following his conviction for killing a prison officer while escaping from Pentridge Prison.
On February 3, 1967, Sir Henry Bolte's Liberal government in Victoria executed Ronald Ryan, a convicted criminal. Bolte is quoted as saying, "If you want to win an election have a hanging." [4] In 1968, Murphy introduced a private members bill, the Death Penalty Abolition Act, which aimed to abolish the use of capital punishment in Australia.
Holt's death has entered Australian folklore, and is frequently the subject of black humour. [58] Travel writer Bill Bryson labelled it "the swim that needed no towel". [ 59 ] Holt's name has become a byword for any sudden or unexplained disappearance; the phrase "to do a Harold Holt" is rhyming slang for "to bolt" (i.e., to make a quick exit ...
A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s. Now, more than five decades later, the world’s longest ...
Ryan v The Queen (abbreviated to Ryan v R) is a seminal case in Australian criminal law. The case is an application to the High Court of Australia for special leave to appeal a conviction for murder. It is often cited in cases of felony murder (referred to as constructive murder in Australian law) and when the issue of voluntariness is in question.
An 88-year-old former boxer has been found not guilty in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder in Japan, ending his ordeal as the longest-serving death row inmate ever.