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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.
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. Between Ryan's execution in 1967 and 1984, several more people were sentenced to death, but had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.
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.
The Prime Minister is Missing, a 2008 docudrama, suggested that Holt's judgement on the weekend of his death had been impaired by his medication, in combination with work-related tiredness and stress. Morphine was named as the drug that he had been prescribed, although "no direct evidence" indicated that he had taken any on the day of his death ...
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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.
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