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American Lynchings
These photos of whites torturing and lynching black men present a side of U.S. history that most history books ignore. They provide one of the many reasons why blacks (and Indians) hold a different...
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The Lynching of Leo Frank
March 14, 2005 Leo Frank (photograph c. 1915)Virulent anti-Semitism led directly to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and lynching of the innocent, but Jewish, Leo Frank. Police and prosecutors...
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The Last Days of Lepke Buchalter
Louis "Lepke" BuchalterThomas E. Dewey built a political career around hounding the Jewish gangster Lepke. His execution in 1944 — the first of a major underworld figure – riveted the attention of a...
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Pulling the Trigger – How Hate Groups Influence Racist Killer Joseph Paul...
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Mothers Who Murder
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Ruth Ellis: Love, Lust and Death on the Gallows
Feb. 29, 2012Ruth EllisIt was a time of “no sex please, we’re British.” Women, if they had to mention the three-letter word, preferred to spell it out in a whisper. As for men, they hypocritically...
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The Man They Couldn’t Hang
June 4, 2012John "Babbacombe" LeeAfter three attempts to hang John Lee at Exeter Prison in Devon, England, the hanging was called off. Years later he was paroled. by Robert Walsh It is February 23,...
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The Execution Photos
Allen Lee Davis[Ed's Note: On Jan. 14, 2000, following the barrage of controversy created by the execution photos posted by Justice Shaw, Florida barred any further executions by electrocution, opting...
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The Life and Times of Clarence Ray Allen
Dec. 1, 2009Clarence Ray AllenA coward and a megalomaniac, Ray Allen gave orders that resulted in the deaths of many people. At age 76, he was the oldest person ever executed by the State of...
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Ten Who Escaped the Hangman in Ireland
Before the Republic of Ireland abandoned the death penalty in 1990, it had a curious relationship to it, meting out the penalty but more often than not commuting or reprieving the condemned.by Colm...
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The Edinburgh Lynching
Mob lynchings have been extremely rare events in the United Kingdom. The most infamous occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1736by Martin BaggoleyOn Monday April 6 1724, the Caledonian Mercury included...
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