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  2. Edwin Bush - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Albert Arthur Bush (1940 – 6 July 1961) was the first criminal in Britain to be caught through the use of the Identikit facial composite system, [1] the second to last executed in London and the last to be hanged at Pentonville Prison.

  3. List of Apartheid South African assassinations - Wikipedia

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    Target Position Date City Country Vuyisile Mini [1]: Umkhonto we Sizwe activist : 6 November 1964 Pretoria South Africa Frederick John Harris [2]: African Resistance Movement activist

  4. Robert McGladdery - Wikipedia

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    Robert Andrew McGladdery (18 October 1935 – 20 December 1961) was the last person to be executed in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland. [1]He was convicted of the murder of Pearl Gamble, aged 19, whom he had battered, strangled and stabbed to death on 28 January 1961 and whose body was discovered at Upper Damolly, near Newry, County Down.

  5. Capital punishment in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    During the reign of Henry VIII, as many as 72,000 people are estimated to have been executed. [2] In Elizabethan England, the death penalty applied for treason, murder, manslaughter, infanticide, rape, arson, grand larceny (theft of goods worth more than a shilling), highway robbery, buggery, sodomy and heresy.

  6. List of people who were executed - Wikipedia

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    Francisco (1876) last execution in Brazil (former Empire of Brazil) Sidney Harry Fox (1930) Robert Alan Fratta (2023) Ronnie Lee Gardner (2010) Micheal Anak Garing (2019) Juan Garza (2001) Nirmal Jibon Ghosh (1934) Gary Gilmore (1977) first post-Gregg execution in Utah and in the United States; Lewis Eugene Gilbert (2003) Barbara Graham (1955 ...

  7. James Hanratty - Wikipedia

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    James Hanratty (4 October 1936 – 4 April 1962), also known as the A6 Murderer, was a British criminal who was one of the final eight people in the UK to be executed before capital punishment was abolished. [1]

  8. Category : 20th-century executions by the United Kingdom

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    People executed by a jurisdiction of the United Kingdom from 1901–2000. People should also be placed in the appropriate subcategory of the by-jurisdiction categories: Category:People executed by England and Wales; Category:People executed by Northern Ireland; Category:People executed by Scotland; Category:People executed by the British military

  9. Francis Forsyth - Wikipedia

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    Forsyth, who claimed his girlfriend Margaret Caitlin was expecting his child in January 1961, [2] was the last 18-year-old to be hanged in Britain. 19-year-old Anthony Miller became the last teenager to be executed in Britain when he was hanged in Glasgow just over a month later, on 22 December 1960. Three other eighteen-year-olds were executed ...