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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: August August 2nd 2/8/1904 “Heinrich” – Namibia “Germany has learned the lessons of the past,” a German politician told a gathering of Africans in Namibia, when he apologised for the genocide Germans had inflicted on Namibian tribesmen. This was no... more » August 2nd 2/8/1928 Russell St. Clair Beitzel – USA Discovering herself pregnant, Barbara Burholme, of Golden Avenue, Los Angeles, telephoned the prospective father, Russell St. Clair Beitzel, and begged him to marry her. “I’m not ready for that, reall... more » August 2nd 2/8/1946 Andrey Vlasov and 11 others – Russia The unthinkable in mid-20th-century Soviet Russia was for a top general to become a traitor. Andrey Vlasov, 45, was a top Communist general, and one of Stalin’s most trusted military leaders. The unth... more » August 3rd 3/8/1934 Paul Simonovic and Dragutin Rajic-Stefanovic – Serbia A Serbian peasant, his daughter and an old man were trudging along a road on their way to market to buy sheep in May 1933, when they were set upon by two robbers. The peasant was killed and robbed of ... more » August 4th 4/8/1904 John Kelly – USA Dying fine silk was a tricky process known only to a select few at the beginning of the 20th century. One such dyer, John Kelly, was an Irish immigrant to New Jersey. With his skills he could have ear... more » August 4th 4/8/1942 Gratien Fernando, C. A. Gauder and G.B. de Silva – Sri Lanka “Asia for the Asiatics!” That was the rallying cry of a gang of mutineers, gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery, on the night of May 8th and 9th, 1942. Their wrath was directed against their Briti... more » August 5th 5/8/1975 Deduwa Siripala – Sri Lanka Houdini would have been no match for Deduwa Siripala, who escaped from jail three times while in custody. His daring and skill as an escapologist made him something of a folk hero in Sri Lanka – he wa... more » August 7th 7/8/1958 Edward Singh – Fiji Fiji is a peace-loving place, so even when in 1958 a Fiji man was sentenced to hang for killing his nine-month-old son with sulphuric acid, vociferous protests against the death sentence broke out. Bu... more » August 8th 8/8/1952 Jerry Koci and Jonas Nopoty – Australia Darwin city taxi driver George Grantham was on a roll. That afternoon, April 20th, 1952, he had won over £600 at the races. Now two fares wanted him to drive them out of town on a trip that would take... more » August 9th 9/8/1956 Andreas Zakos, Charilaos Michael and Iakovos Patatsos – Cyprus Cyprus in the 1950s was a British protectorate with its own band of brothers seeking independence through violence – the Greek-Cypriot EOKA movement of terrorists, or, if you were Greek-Cypriot, freed... more » August 10th 10/8/1906 Samuel Monich – USA Forty-three-year-old Hattie Decker, a farmer’s daughter of Montville, New Jersey, had two suitors for her hand in marriage – Samuel Monich, 45, a Hungarian immigrant, and John Bolk, a local grain and ... more » August 11th 11/8/1908 Khudiram Bose – India India’s Revolutionary Party branch in the Bengal region, dedicated to liberating India from British rule, was so impressed with the zeal of its new recruit, 18-year-old Khudiram Bose, that he was give... more » August 11th 11/8/1938 James Watherston – Australia An aboriginal tracker known as “Jimmie” was called in by South Australian police to hunt down the man who raped and strangled 12-year-old Elizabeth Nielson just 300 yards from her home in Monash in th... more » August 11th 11/8/1914 Joseph Bergeron – USA “I have neither the desire to marry you nor the temperament to tolerate further your repeated importuning,” declared 41-year-old Elizabeth Dowsette when Joseph Bergeron came knocking at her door for t... more » August 12th 12/8/1930 Henry Lorenz – USA “I need that money back that I lent you,” Nils Anderson, a Swedish immigrant, told his friend Henry Lorenz. “My sister’s family can’t pay their mortgage and if I don’t help them out they’ll be out on ... more » August 13th 13/8/1915 Frank Grela – USA Hartford, Connecticut was the scene of another murder 15 years earlier, when Frank Grela, 41, who lived with his wife Nellie, 25, in one of the town’s crowded tenements, complained to Nellie that she ... more » August 13th 13/8/1997 Gholamreza Khoshrou – Iran By dawn on Wednesday, August 13th, 1997, a crowd of 20,000 people had arrived to watch the execution of the man they called the Teheran Vampire – 28-year-old Gholamreza Khoshrou. who, during a four-mo... more » August 14th 14/8/1936 Rainey Bethea – USA Fifteen thousand people turned up to watch the last public execution held in the United States. But there was a problem. In the state of Kentucky it was the job of the county sheriff to hang the conde... more » August 14th 14/8/1944 Clarence Whitfield – France D-Day, 1944. Tens of thousands of Allied soldiers swarmed onto the Normandy beaches in the biggest invasion ever mounted in history. Many would die, and one of them, Private Clarence Whitfield, a blac... more » August 16th and 17th 16/8/1921 Dorethea Kraft and Hermanus Swartz – South Africa When a wheeler-dealer named Louis Tumpowski bought himself an interest in Dorethea Kraft’s farm in the Transvaal she had no idea that he had the deeds drawn up in such a way that when the lease was up... more » August 18th 18/8/1955 Edward Te Whiu – New Zealand Habitual burglar and thief Edward Te Whiu, 20, was caught red-handed by 27-year-old Mrs. Florence Smith when he broke into her home in Ruatangata, New Zealand, during the night of April 28th, 1955. He... more » August 18th 18/8/1960 Peter Poole – Kenya The view in Kenya was that Englishman Peter Poole would never hang because he had “only killed a black man.” That didn’t go down too well in England, so his defence team changed tactics, claiming that... more » August 20th 20/8/1941 Frederick Phillips and Earl Lund – Canada For a pair of burglars, they had impeccable connections. Frederick Phillips’ grandfather was chief of police in a neighbouring town and Earl Lund’s cousin was a policeman in Charlottetown, the town in... more » August 20th 20/8/1953 Eleven Africans – Lesotho An African headman, Pheelo Smith, desperately needed a human sacrifice to save his villagers’ crops. He chose his father-in-law as the victim, and the whole of the village of Maseru in Basutoland (now... more » August 23rd 23/8/1925 Seven nationalists – Egypt Seven Egyptian nationalists put on trial in November 1924 for the murder of Sir Lee Stack, British commander of the Egyptian Army and governor-general of the Sudan, in Cairo, treated the proceedings w... more » August 25th 25/8/1945 Seven German PoWs – USA When American aircraft attacked and sank the German submarine U-118 off the Azores in June, 1943, only 11 members of the crew of 55 survived. One of them was Werner Drechsler, who decided to co-operat... more » August 26th 26/8/1953 John Balaban – Australia To the very last minute of his life Australian John Balaban, 29, couldn’t get on with people. Even as he was being led to the execution chamber in Adelaide Prison on Wednesday, August 26th, 1953, he s... more » August 31st 31/8/1928 Wallace Gaines – USA The discovery of the nearly naked body of pretty 22-year-old Sylvia Gaines alongside Green Lake in Seattle in 1926 set off a scandal that rocked the American city for months. She had been battered and... more » August 31st 31/8/1950 John Golby, Robert Smith and Edward Hensman – Egypt Bored by the tedium of their Suez Canal posting in Fayid, three soldiers, all from Hackney, east London, yearned for a bit of fun. They decided that even the wrath of the military that was bound to fo... more »
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