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Anstis' flag, described as “hoisted a Union Flag, with Four blazing Balls”. [3] Anstis' pirate flag, described as a “Black Flagg with Death’s Head”." During the night of 18 April 1721, Roberts' ships headed for Africa, but Anstis and his crew in the Good Fortune slipped away in the night and continued to operate in the Caribbean.
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
John Phillips (died April 18, 1724) was an English pirate captain. He started his piratical career in 1721 under Thomas Anstis, and stole his own pirate vessel in 1723.He died in a surprise attack by his own prisoners.
With the execution of death row inmate Julius Jones less than 24 hours away, students walked out of school in protest, and state leaders vocalized their opinions on the matter.
The fate of Julius Jones — who has served almost 20 years on death row, even as numerous questions raised doubts about his guilt — rests with Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt. Only hours are left for ...
Brandon Astor Jones died by lethal injection at 12:46 a.m. at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.
Although much of his early career is unrecorded, he was a member of Captain Roberts's fleet in June 1719 to April 1720, until leaving with fellow member Thomas Anstis, who was awarded command of the 21-gun Morning Star shortly before leaving the West Indies for the West African coast during the night of 21 April 1721. [1]
The longest sitting death row inmate, Fred Singleton, is also the oldest at age 80. He was convicted in 1983 after sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman and strangling her to death with a ...