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William Doyle FBA (born 1942) is a British historian, specialising in 18th-century France, who is most notable for his one-volume Oxford History of the French Revolution (1st edition, 1989; 2nd edition, 2002; 3rd edition, 2018).
Gray's execution was the first in Mississippi after 1976. He repeatedly banged his head into an iron bar while being gassed. After Gray's execution, head restraints were added onto the iron bar inside of the gas chamber. [30] John Louis Evans (1983) – Electric chair. Evans's execution was the first in Alabama after 1976.
William Edward Doyle (February 5, 1911 – May 2, 1986) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado and a justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
The Oxford History of the French Revolution received positive reviews from the historian Colin Jones in The Times Literary Supplement, [4] Michael Broers in History, [5] the historian Malcolm Crook in the European Review of History, [6] and the historian Norman Hampson in The English Historical Review, [7] and a mixed review from Thomas J. Schaeper in Library Journal. [8]
Despite his troubled relationship with the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, Irish author and playwright Brendan Behan is known to have always felt a great admiration for Father William Doyle. He praised Father Doyle in his 1958 memoir Borstal Boy. Alfred O'Rahilly's biography of the fallen chaplain is known to have been one of Behan's favorite ...
William Davis – 11 June 1813 – Hanged for cutting and maiming William Mason with a knife during a drunken brawl at Ultimo. Thomas Thorpe – September 1813 – Hanged for assaulting and robbing John Galligan of a silver watch on the King's Highway. William Gray – March or April 1814 – Hanged for highway robbery.
William Lester Suff, known over the years as the "Riverside Prostitute Killer" and the "Lake Elsinore Killer," confessed to killing 19-year-old Cathy Small in 1986, Los Angeles County Sheriff's ...
The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty).Thus, Charles Brooks Jr. was not only the first person executed in the 1980 decade, he was also the first person executed since Texas resumed the death penalty.