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Sanson was the fourth in a six-generation family dynasty of executioners. His great-grandfather, Charles Sanson (1658–1695) of Abbeville, was a soldier in the French royal army and was appointed as executioner of Paris in 1688. [1] Upon his death he passed the office to his son named Charles (1681–1726).
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
The 1982 Lake Waco Murders refers to the deaths of three teenagers (two females, one male) near Lake Waco in Waco, Texas, in July 1982.The police investigation and criminal trials that followed the murders lasted for more than a decade and resulted in the execution of one man, David Wayne Spence, and life prison sentences for two other men allegedly involved in the crime, Anthony and Gilbert ...
Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad.. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die ...
The longest sitting death row inmate, Fred Singleton, is also the oldest at age 80. He was convicted in 1983 after sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman and strangling her to death with a ...
A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...
The bodies of the unfortunate lifeboatmen (who were fishermen by trade) were removed from the beaches and laid out in the coaching house of the nearby Birkdale Palace Hotel. The coach house was later converted to a public house, being named The Fishermen's Rest, and is reputed to be haunted by the spirits of the dead men.
Officials in northern Mexico found a dozen skeletons in 11 secret graves near the US border during a three-day search of the area last week. ... Mexican authorities discovered the 12 bodies during ...