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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.
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 ...
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 ...
In 1973 the Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 of the Commonwealth abolished the death penalty for federal offences. It provided in Section 3 that the Act applied to any offence against a law of the Commonwealth, the Territories or under an Imperial Act, and in s. 4 that "[a] person is not liable to the punishment of death for any offence".
[1] Since Ryan's actions and Taylor's death occurred during and as the result of an armed robbery, which at the time was punishable with life imprisonment, the felony murder rule applied. The High Court unanimously ruled that Ryan's application for special leave be refused. Subsequently, his conviction for murder and life sentence were upheld.
The 1967 Tasmanian fires were an Australian natural disaster which occurred on 7 February 1967, an event which came to be known as the Black Tuesday bushfires. They were the most deadly bushfires that Tasmania has ever experienced, leaving 64 people dead, 900 injured and over seven thousand homeless. [2] [3] [4] [1]
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The hotel where the rape happened has since been renamed Galaxy Lodge. The death row cell block where the four men were held along with the death chamber were in use until 1976, when the electric chair was retired as an execution method in favour of death by firing squad. The actual electric chair used in the three executions was partially ...