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William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, ... Joyce was executed on 3 January 1946 [46] at Wandsworth Prison, aged 39. He was ...
1945: William Joyce lies in an ambulance under armed guard before being taken from British Second Army Headquarters to a hospital. Lord Haw-Haw was a nickname applied to William Joyce and several other people who broadcast Nazi propaganda to the United Kingdom from Germany during the Second World War.
The last treason trial was that of William Joyce, "Lord Haw-Haw", who was executed by hanging in 1946. The last conviction under a Treason Act was of Jaswant Singh Chail in 2023, who was charged with an offence relating to a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II .
William Joyce, alias 'Lord Haw-Haw', for broadcasting Nazi propaganda to the United Kingdom during World War II. Hanged on 3 January 1946. Last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom. Members of the British Free Corps: Thomas Haller Cooper and Walter Purdy (death sentences commuted)
"Lord Haw-Haw", William Joyce, convicted as a traitor and executed at Wandsworth, 3 January 1946. Bruno Tesch, co-inventor of the insecticide Zyklon B used in the Holocaust. Convicted of the crime of complicity in the murder of interned allied civilians by means of poison gas by a British military tribunal at the Curiohaus in Rotherbaum, Hamburg.
Died: William Joyce, 39, nicknamed "Lord Haw Haw" by his British listeners, a U.S.-born citizen of the United Kingdom who had defected to Germany to broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain during World War II, was hanged at Britain's Wandsworth Prison at 9:00 a.m. for treason.
A 70-year-old convicted serial killer from Lake Elsinore has confessed to another slaying in Southern California, putting an end to a decades-old cold case, authorities announced Tuesday.
William Morva (2017) last execution in Virginia; Leon Moser (1995) Norishyam s/o Mohamed Ali (1999) Shukri Mustafa (1978) Mun Se-gwang (1974) Khwan-On Natthaphon (2002) Keith Dwayne Nelson (2020) Hester Rebecca Nepping (1812) Susan Newell (1923) last woman executed in Scotland; Solomon Ngobeni (1989) last execution in South Africa; Oh Laye Koh ...