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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: July July 1st 1/7/1908 John Washelesky – USA Two boys out hiking in the Beaver Swamp area of New Haven, Connecticut, in November 1904 were astonished to see the bones of a pair of human feet sticking out of the ground. The police were called and... more » July 2nd 2/7/1908 James Coleman – Australia “Go home, Jim, you’re drunk,” Police Constable Ring told his old buddy Jim Coleman, who was making a nuisance of himself in a street in Glenelg, South Australia. Coleman slouched off, but not to sober... more » July 2nd 2/7/1915 Shelby Wise – USA Race was a very visible issue in the deep south in 1914, and it was at the heart of the murder of Claude Brown, a wealthy white man, who on the night of April 12th, 1914, went out in West Palm Beach, ... more » July 2nd 2/7/1983 Philippa Mdluli – Swaziland The barbarianism for which Philippa Mdluli was hanged in Swaziland on Saturday, July 2nd, 1983, can have few equals, even in tribal Africa. A restaurant owner, she enticed one of her employees to give... more » July 2nd 2/7/1999 Shaiful Adam and Norishyam Ali – Singapore Arriving in Singapore to study for an IT degree, Miss Iordanka Aposolova, 26, a Bulgarian national, struck up a friendship with Shaiful Adam, 22, from who she agreed to buy a car. When they began to d... more » July 3rd 3/7/1931 Ernesto Opisso – Gibraltar At first glance the murder of Marie Bossano, a British subject of Spanish extraction, was shrouded in mystery. She had been attacked in the bedroom of her Gibraltar flat, and had then been carried, or... more » July 5th 5/7/1943 Karmnu and Guzeppi Zammit – Malta Two brothers became the last men executed in Malta when they mounted the scaffold at Corradino Prison, Paola, five miles from Valletta, on Monday, July 5th, 1943. Karmnu Zammit and his brother Guzeppi... more » July 7th 7/5/1955 Frederick Foster – New Zealand It was love at first sight when Sharon Skiffington, of Hawera, New Zealand, met Frederick Foster, a 24-year-old Liverpudlian who had emigrated first to Australia and then to New Zealand. So it was too... more » July 7th 7/5/1986 Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers – Malaysia In states like Malaysia drug-trafficking is regarded as deadly serious, and can lead to the gallows. That’s what happened to two Australians, who were hanged in Malaysia’s Pudu Prison on Monday, July ... more » July 14th 14/7/1926 Zir Hurshid and 14 others – Turkey Mustapha Kemal – celebrated in history as Kemal Atatürk – swept Turkey into the 20th century when he was elected the country’s president in 1923. His new laws included replacing an Islamic state with ... more » July 14th 14/7/1939 Howard Long – USA “His craving for boys remained undiminished throughout his life,” says an American report on the crimes of paedophile Howard Long. His first violent encounter was on November 12th, 1936, when he entic... more » July 14th 14/7/1994 Glenn Ashby – Trinidad and Tobago The Privy Council in London, arbiters of Trinidad’s legal affairs in 1984, had decreed that a prisoner could not be hanged if he had been on Death Row for more than five years. The decision was an imp... more » July 14th 14/7/1995 Ng Shuang – Singapore Along with murder and drug trafficking, Singapore law allows the death sentence for “discharging a firearm while committing a crime.” In November 1992, Ng Shuang, 29, and an accomplice tried to rob a ... more » July 15th 15/7/1949 Jake Bird – USA Can a desperate man put a curse on someone, and does it work? Jake Bird, a serial killer, seemed to think so. When on October 30th, 1947, police responded to a report of a woman screaming in a Tacoma,... more » July 16th 16/7/1957 Gerald Eaton – Canada When two teenage boys were suspected by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police of having abducted an eight-year-old girl, Gerald Eaton, a relative of one of them, intervened. “They were with me all day,” h... more » July 16th 16/7/1909 Leonardo Gebbia – USA During the evening of June 8th, 1907, Walter Lamana, the seven-year-old son of a wealthy New Orleans undertaker, was kidnapped. Within hours his parents received a ransom note – the boy would be retur... more » July 17th 17/7/1903 Dora Wright – USA Seven-year-old Annie Williams’ life was short and agonising. For months she was cruelly beaten by her guardian, Dora Wright, 31, and among the other tortures she had to endure was branding with a red-... more » July 19th 19/7/1902 Josef Jaros – Czech Republic Curses and obscenities abounded when Josef Jaros, a Czech citizen, was taken to the death cell. Anyone who came anywhere near him was met with a string of abuse. As he was lifted up to the gallows on ... more » July 20th 20/7/1934 William Bayly – New Zealand Although they were sheep farmers in Ruawaro, New Zealand, living some distance apart and with plenty of space around them, William Bayly and Samuel Lakey were the neighbours from hell. They hated each... more » July 20th 20/7/1900 Charles Cross – USA A prosperous New York printer went to a Connecticut orphanage in search of a servant. “I need a suitable young man to do the chores in my summer home,” he explained to the director. “I thought it woul... more » July 20th 20/7/1998 David Wilson – St. Kitts and Nevis Kenneth Herbert, 54, was a security guard on a 35-acre restored 18th-century West Indian plantation when he was attacked by intruders in September 1994. They beat him to death. David Wilson and Cleme... more » July 21st 21/7/1976 Colonel Abu Taher – Bangladesh A freedom fighter in the Bangladesh war of independence, a radical activist, a socialist and an army colonel, Abu Taher was something of a hero in Bangladesh. He lost a leg in one battle and when the ... more » July 21st 21/7/1989 Derrick Gregory – Malaysia The dubious distinction of being the first Briton to be hanged for drug trafficking in the former British colony of Malaysia fell to Derrick Gregory on Friday, July 21st, 1989. Gregory, from Richmond-... more » July 25th 25/7/1911 David Smithson – Australia The attack on 18-year-old Western Australian Frances Compton was so prolonged and severe that her killer literally shook her to death while he was raping her. He was David Smithson, and he was hanged ... more » July 27th 27/7/1973 Mimi Sim – Singapore Celebrated as a singer on the cabaret circuit in Singapore, Mimi Sim, 34, became notorious on Friday, July 27th, 1973, as the first woman to be hanged in the country. She and her husband, Woh Sim, wer... more » July 28th 28/7/1999 Anthony Briggs – Trinidad and Tobago Taxi drivers all over the world are especially vulnerable to thieves, as was Siewdath Ramkissoon, who in August 1992 was attacked and beaten to death by two customers. Anthony Briggs, 25, and Wencesla... more » July 29th 1932 29/7/1932 Emery Sallai and Alexander Furst – Hungary There was a short-lived Communist regime in Hungary in 1919, and when it collapsed successive governments were ferociously anti-Communist. Against this background, on July 22nd, 1932, Budapest Police ... more » July 29th 29/7/1947 Avshalom Haviv, Yaakov Weiss and Meir Nakar – Israel The British mandate in Palestine had only a year left to run in May 1947 when, three weeks after a mass breakout of Jewish prisoners from Acre Prison, three Jewish men were caught just outside the pri... more » July 30th 30/7/1926 Petrus de Beer – South Africa An outing by train in January 1926, for the de Beer family, of Fort Beaufort, Cape Province, had a sinister ending when Mrs. de Beer died in agony from strychnine poisoning. During the journey her hu... more » July 30th 30/7/1985 Pieter Grundlingh – South Africa Stand aside Bonnie and Clyde, this tale of two carbon copies is writ large in South Africa’s criminal history. They were Charmaine Phillips and Pieter Grundlingh and they sowed mayhem in the Orange Fr... more » July 31st 31/7/1934 Otto Planetta and Franz Holzweber – Austria Anxious to bring Nazism to Austria, eight Austrian Nazis marched into the chancery building in Vienna on July 25th, 1934, and shot dead Engelbert Dollfuss, 41, the Austrian chancellor. They were arr... more »
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