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Hanging has been the execution method of choice for murder in far more countries than just the UK. This section focuses on judicial hangings in the 20th century around the world. Worldwide Hangings: June June 1st 1/6/1936 Arnold Sodeman – Australia A group of young girls playing in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale had no inkling of the deadly sexual predator watching them from a nearby hotel bar. His drink finished, Arnold Sodeman, a 30-year-old... more » June 2nd 2/6/1989 Sandra Smith and Yassiem Harris – South Africa Spectators in Cape Town Supreme Court shuddered as they listened to the story of how schoolgirl Jermaine Abrahams was murdered by two burglars. Sandra Smith, 22, and her boy friend, Yassiem Harris, 1... more » June 3rd 3/6/1938 Harold van Venison – USA They called Harold van Venison the “Covington Negro” after his home town of Covington, Kentucky, because he was a well-known local singer, and something of a ladies’ man as well. But the white peopl... more » June 3rd 3/6/1960 K. A. Weersinghe – Sri Lanka Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), effectively abolished the death penalty in his country in 1956 – and three years later he was shot dead by a Buddhist monk. Concerned b... more » June 4th 4/6/1999 Nine men – Trinidad and Tobago Four members of a Trinidad family were said to have insulted Dole Chadee, a local drugs baron – and for that they were brutally gunned down in 1994 by Chadee and his gang. But the gang – nine of them ... more » June 5th 5/6/1935 Patrick Griffin and Elmer Brewer – USA Fifty people, including two women, witnessed the double execution of Patrick Griffin, 36, and Elmer Brewer, 33, at Fort Madison Prison, Iowa, on Wednesday, June 5th, 1935. It was the first hanging eve... more » June 5th 5/6/1951 George Rowe – Canada “Take us to London,” George Rowe and his friend Russell Bechard told cabby John Jolly in Windsor, Ontario. “We haven’t any money on us now but we can pay you when we get there.” London, it should be e... more » June 5th 5/6/1963 Nora Parham – Belize “Under the British laws at the time she was found guilty and sentenced to die. Today it would probably have been different.” So said George Price, the first black prime minister of Belize, recalling ... more » June 6th 6/6/1961 Mervyn Fallows – Australia On December 29th, 1960, the body of 11-year-old Sandra Smith was found in bushes in North Beach, Perth, Western Australia. She had been lured to the spot, raped and then strangled with a stocking by M... more » June 7th 7/6/1935 May and Howard Carey – USA “I’ll buy you a car if you help me kill your Uncle Robert,” Mrs. May Carey, 52, told her sons Howard, 28, and James. She had set her sights on the insurance money on the life of her brother, Robert Hi... more » June 7th 7/6/1951 Seven war criminals – Germany The last executions in Germany took place on Thursday, June 7th, 1951, when seven Nazi war criminals were hanged in Landsberg Prison, Bavaria. They were Paul Blobel, Werner Braune, Eric Naumann, Otto ... more » June 8th 8/6/1989 Stefan Svitek – Slovakia Classified by psychologists as a psychopath, serial sex offender Stefan Svitek raped and murdered his two little daughters and his pregnant wife. He became the last person executed in Slovakia when he... more » June 10th 10/6/1957 Clarence van Buuren – South Africa A medium called in by South African police to help solve the disappearance of 18-year-old Myrna Aken was able to lead investigators to the teenager’s naked body, hidden under a road drain 60 miles awa... more » June 11th 11/6/1923 Arthur Stanley – South Africa An ex-soldier hoped he would find diamonds in Kimberley, Cape Province, to reverse his ill fortune. He failed – so he turned to crime instead. On March 7th, 1923, Arthur Stanley and an accomplice amb... more » June 11th 11/6/1954 Edward Grammer – USA A wife and a mistress is a dangerous combination, as Baltimore salesman Edward Grammer, 35, found to his cost. He decided his wife would have to go, and killed her, covering up the murder by staging a... more » June 12th 12/6/1931 Stephanus van Wyk – South Africa Convinced that his former partner in crime Jan Moller had swindled him, habitual criminal Stephanus van Wyk came out of prison in July 1930, and went in search of Moller. The two men went for a car ri... more » June 13th 13/6/1919 Frank McCullough – Canada “It was an accident,” he said. “I didn’t mean to shoot him.” It was also a hopeless excuse, for Frank McCullough was a drifter, probably a liar and most definitely a thief. But he was also handsome, ... more » June 13th 13/6/1932 John Smith – Australia When two trappers went hunting in a rabbit reserve in Perth, Western Australia, in May 1930, only one came back. A search party discovered the remains of the missing man, Louis Carron, when they stumb... more » June 13th 13/6/1962 Hambia Zacharia, Michael Hiletikos and Lazaris Demetriou – Cyprus Cyprus gained its independence from Britain in 1960 but for its first executions the Cypriot Government sent to England for hangmen Harry Allen and John Underhill. On Wednesday, June 13th, 1962, they ... more » June 17th 17/6/1918 Francisco Dusso, Carmine Lanzillo and Carmine Pisaniello – USA Morris Goldstein, a New Hampshire tailor, made the mistake of flashing a large bankroll when he agreed to buy a watch from Carmine Lanzillo, one of his customers. Lanzillo went to four Italian immigra... more » June 17th 17/6/1952 Henry Malanik – Canada “Help! My boy friend has stabbed my husband!” That frantic call to Winnipeg Police on the evening of July 15th, 1950, was made by Olga Kafka, and Detective James Sims, who took it, sighed the sigh of... more » June 18th 18/6/1983 Ten women – Iran Following the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979, a reign of terror swept the country. Tens of thousands of people were killed and there were – and still are – hundreds of legal executions for offe... more » June 22nd 22/6/1920 Dennis Gunn – New Zealand A murderer hanged on Tuesday, June 22nd, 1920, became the first man ever to be executed in New Zealand almost entirely on fingerprint evidence. Dennis Gunn, 25, killed Augustus Braithwaite, postmaste... more » June 22nd 22/6/1965 James Latham and George York – USA James Douglas Latham and George Ronald York, from Jackonsville, Florida, were 19 and 18 respectively when they escaped the US Army disciplinary barracks at Fort Hood, Texas. They had been serving term... more » June 24th 24/6/1952 Thomas Houghton – Egypt Serving with the RASC in the Suez Canal Zone, Acting Corporal Thomas Houghton, from Hull, fell in love with a Greek girl who worked for the army. The girl didn’t return his interest and even complaine... more » June 28th 28/6/1926 Jindrich Bazant – Czech Republic “I was destined to be a murderer,” Jindrich Bazant, 33, told a prison doctor when he was arrested. The son of wealthy parents, he kept three lovers at the same time and, suddenly growing tired of them... more » June 28th 28/6/1962 Duncan Moodie – South Africa The dubious distinction of being the only South African to be tried, found guilty and sentenced to death twice for the same murder belongs to Duncan Moodie, 27, who shot his estranged wife Anita at he... more » June 28th 28/6/1955 Dr. Dalip Singh – Trinidad and Tobago An Indian doctor who assisted at a post-mortem on a woman in Port of Spain, Trinidad, failed to tell the authorities that the corpse was that of his own German-born wife Inge, and that he had murdered... more » June 29th 29/6/1938 Shlomo Ben Yossef – Israel (then Palestine) During their mandate over Palestine the British hanged 108 terrorists between 1936 and 1939. Of these, 107 were Arabs and one, Shlomo Ben Yossef, 20, was Jewish. Ben Yossef was one of three men who f... more »
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