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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: May May 2nd 2/5/1947 Ruth Elfriede Hildner – Czech Republic Conscripted into concentration camp service by her Nazi masters in July 1944, when she was 25, Ruth Elfriede Hildner quickly achieved a reputation for brutality, sadism and murder. Her first appointme... more » May 3rd 3/5/1977 Zdislaw and Hendryck Marchwicki – Poland They called Zdislaw Marchwicki the “Vampire of Katowice” for the wave of terror he and his brother Hendryck spread through the Silesian city, raping, sexually mutilating and murdering as many as 26 wo... more » May 4th 4/5/1904 Mohammed Mianoor – Australia Four Afghans were seated at their evening meal in the small outpost of Bicton Valley, Western Australia, in November 1903, when a fellow-Afghan, Mohammed Mianoor, rode up to them on horseback. “Have... more » May 5th 5/5/1910 Carlos Bonello – Australia A pretty young Australian girl, Emma Plush, rejected her lover Carlos Bonello and began dating a new boy friend. Furious, Bonello bought a gun, stalked the couple for two weeks, and on the same day th... more » May 6th 6/5/1958 Margaret Rheeder – South Africa From 1939, when she was married at the age of 18, to Tuesday, May 6th, 1958, when she had a date with the hangman, Margaret Rheeder was beset by domestic problems. Three years after their marriage, he... more » May 8th 8/5/1914 Motejius Rikteraites – USA Another catastrophic household… another murder. Within a week of getting married at Waterbury, Connecticut, Lithuanian immigrant Motejius Rikteraites was viciously quarrelling with his new bride Mary... more » May 9th 9/5/1942 Robert James alias Raymond Lisemba – USA A few weeks after his wife had been badly injured in a car crash Robert James reported more bad news to police in Colorado Springs: “My poor wife has drowned in the bathtub. She must have been dizzy f... more » May 10th 10/5/1972 Stephenson Florius and Jean-Baptiste Faucher – St. Lucia A fire is still big news on the tiny island of St. Lucia, population 150,000, so there was much local excitement in June 1971, when a large house on the island was gutted by fire. When the flames were... more » May 11th 11/5/1937 Herbert Schlogl and Fritz Fleck – Austria Martial law was declared in Austria in 1934 following an abortive Nazi uprising. The law included the restoration of capital punishment, which was invoked in 1937 when three young men robbed and kille... more » May 14th 14/5/1915 Peter Krakus – USA Two Lithuanian immigrants to the US decided to target Roman Catholic priests when they set out on their very brief and very lethal criminal careers in 1915. On February 8th Bernard Montvid and Peter K... more » May 14th 14/5/1974 Charles Campbell – USA Fate was savagely cruel to Renae Wicklund. On December 11th, 1974, she was repeatedly raped by an intruder at her Clearview, Washington, home. The rapist was quickly identified as Charles Rodman Campb... more » May 15th 15/5/1914 Herman Clark and Frank Davis – Canada “Find those burglars and bring ’em in!” That was the message given to night-beat policeman James Archibald as he set out on patrol on the night of May 28th, 1913. There had been a rash of commercial b... more » May 16th 16/5/1902 Stefan Balmaschev – Russia Russian minister of the interior M. V. Sipiaguine was about to enter the Marinski Palace in St. Petersburg for a council of ministers meeting when a young man in uniform stepped across his path. “I h... more » May 17th 17/5/1915 Alexander Chisholm – France The middle of the Great War, when carnage was all about, seems an unlikely place for a serving soldier to be tried for murdering another soldier virtually within sight and sound of the enemy trenches.... more » May 17th 17/5/1955 Leslie Hylton – Jamaica The West Indies’ answer to the formidable England cricket team that included Wally Hammond, Leslie Ames and R.E.S. Wyatt in the 1930s was a heavy-set, ferociously fast bowler named Leslie Hylton. He ... more » May 18th 18/5/1931 Antonio Fanto – Australia Two Italian bush workers so disliked each other that it came to a point where one of them, Antonio Fanto, refused to work with the other, Cosimo Nesci. Even then their mutual hatred smouldered. Finall... more » May 18th 18/5/1905 Gershom Marx – USA A Connecticut farmer who agreed to pay his farmhand $53 at the expiration of his service was caught out when the farmhand resigned after six months and asked for the money. Farmer Gershom Marx was al... more » May 18th 18/5/1965 Eli Cohen – Syria Using his vast network of contacts, Eli Cohen worked undercover in Syria as a Mossad agent from 1962 until he was arrested in 1965, during which time he passed invaluable intelligence to the Israelis.... more » May 20th 20/5/1920 Elwood Wade – USA George Nott, 42, who lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut, had every reason to dislike his milkman, Elwood Wade, 23. For apart from bringing the milk every day, Wade was jumping into bed with Mrs. Nott. A... more » May 21st 21/5/1928 John Milner – Australia A huge manhunt followed the discovery of the body of 12-year-old Ivy Lewis in Darkan, Western Australia, on February 28th, 1928. She had been raped and shot to death with a shotgun blast and her body ... more » May 21st 21/5/1973 Three unnamed Africans – Zimbabwe Corporal Norman Moore of the Rhodesian Army led his patrol to a farm in the Centenary district of north-east Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where it was thought guerrilla fighters hostile to Ian Smith’s gove... more » May 23rd 23/5/1923 Emilio Picariello and Florence Lassandra – Canada The scene on the gallows at Fort Saskatchewan Prison, Canada, on Wednesday, May 23rd, 1923, was described by officials as “testing” when a terrified Mrs. Florence Lassandra, 22, was dragged, begging f... more » May 23rd 23/5/1905 Ivan Kaliayev – Russia On February 17th, 1905, socialist revolutionaries warned Elizabeth, the Empress of Russia’s sister: “Don’t go out in your husband’s carriage today.” She didn’t, but her husband, the Grand Duke Sergei,... more » May 24th 24/5/1921 Mustapha Saghir – Turkey He had a curious sort of spying career, this Mustapha Saghir. Indian by birth, he was thought by many people to be mentally unstable. He had personal ambitions to forge ties between the British Empire... more » May 24th 24/5/1998 Saber Farahat el-Ela and Mohammed El-Ela – Egypt Two Egyptian brothers, Saber Farahat el-Ela and Mohammed El-Ela, claimed they blew up a bus killing nine German tourists and an Egyptian bus driver in Cairo, only because they hated foreigners. Four y... more » May 25th 25/5/1998 Wissam Issa and Hassan Abu Jabal – Lebanon About 1,500 spectators crowded onto rooftops and balconies in Tabarjah, near Beirut, to watch two Lebanese be hanged at dawn on Monday, May 25th, 1998. Wissam Issa and Hassan Jabal had robbed and mur... more » May 26th 26/5/1954 Eleven Africans – Nigeria A Nigerian priest, Alfa Apalata, who harangued and denounced a crowd belonging to a tribal cult called the Yorobus, was suddenly set upon and dragged down by pummelling fists and kicking feet. He was ... more » May 26th 26/5/1903 Anton Fischer – Czech Republic “Your money or your life!” cried a restaurant customer, brandishing a pistol at the staff. He had entered the restaurant near Karlovy Vary, in Czechoslovakia, with his friend Anton Fischer, intent on ... more » May 27th 27/5/1925 Marko Friedmann, George Koeff and Zadgorsky – Bulgaria Watched by a crowd of 30,000, three Communists who blew up Sveta Nedelia Cathedral in Sofia, killing 170 people, were publicly hanged on Wednesday, May 27th, 1925, under Mount Vitoen outside Sofia. Ma... more » May 31st 31/5/1962 Adolf Eichmann – Israel The Nazi SS officer who helped carry out Hitler’s Final Solution, the mass murder of millions of Jews, Adolf Eichmann seemed to have made good his escape to Argentina after the Second World War. But 1... more »
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