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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: September September 1st 1/9/1932 Abdul Rashid – India One of the pillars of the British establishment in India detested by the country’s independence fighters was the Peshawar hospital on the north-west frontier. It was here on July 22nd, 1932, that an I... more » September 3rd 3/9/1928 Clifford Hulme – Australia Farmer Harold Smith was clearing scrub on his farm at West Wubin, Western Australia, when, for no reason that anyone could afterwards think of, his hired hand, Clifford Hulme, 29, crept up behind him ... more » September 4th 4/9/1934 Willibald Bendinger – Austria Austria’s law enforcement authorities didn’t lose a moment when they decided to hang Willibald Bendinger. On Tuesday, September 4th, 1934, he was taken to the scaffold in Vienna’s Central Prison and h... more » September 5th 5/9/1930 Carl Panzram – USA “In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and, last but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than a thousand male hu... more » September 5th 5/9/1961 Elizabeth Khambule and 16 other persons – South Africa In a single day, Tuesday, September 5th, 1961, 17 “non-whites” were hanged in Pretoria Prison. Included among them was Elizabeth Khambule, hanged with two accomplices for the murder of a white woman i... more » September 6th 6/9/1945 Joseph Pfitzner – Czech Republic The first war criminal hanged in the Czech Republic after the Second World War was judged by a five-man people’s court tribunal, four of whom were survivors of Nazi concentration camps. They sentenced... more » September 9th 9/9/1902 Nine persons – South Africa The year 1987 saw more executions in South Africa than any other year in the 20th century – a total of 164, and all but nine of these were black. On Wednesday, September 9th that year Pretoria Prison ... more » September 10th 10/9/1943 Abdul Mohammed – India Some Indian extremists were prepared to use any means to damage British rule in India – even, as in the case of Abdul Mohammed, to the extent of enlisting as a spy for Japan in the Second World War. ... more » September 11th 11/9/1936 Leo Hall – USA A burglar who set out to raid a house got his timing all wrong – when he arrived there he found a party in full swing. Leo Hall, 34, an ex-prize fighter and dockyard worker, enlisted the aid of Peggy... more » September 12th 12/9/1911 Dmitry Bogrov – Russia Few prime ministers in history were more hated than Peter Strolypin, premier of Russia in the Tsarist years between 1906 and 1911. In 1906 he set up summary court-martials to try his opponents and had... more » September 13th 13/9/1907 Macario Sakay and Lucio de Vega – Philippines At the beginning of the 20th century the long Philippine-American war was just about over, having cost an estimated half a million lives. American annexation of the Philippines was complete – to the s... more » September 13th 13/9/1946 Amon Goeth – Poland Half a century after he was hanged, Viennese-born Amon Goeth became an internationally known figure through his portrayal by Ralph Fiennes in the movie Schindler’s List. An SS-Hauptsturmführer, he was... more » September 14th 14/9/1953 Eruera Te Rongapatahi – New Zealand “I’m off to do some hunting tomorrow,” Eruera Te Rongapatahi told friends as he prepared to leave their house late in the evening on Sunday, May 31st, 1953. Thinking he was a bit drunk, they ordered a... more » September 15th 15/9/1972 Graham Jenkinson and three others – Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) The first white man hanged in Rhodesia since that country declared itself independent from Britain in 1965, Graham Jenkinson, 20, was sentenced to death for the murder of Martha Dean, an American trai... more » September 16th 16/9/1931 Omar al-Mukhtar – Libya Italy declared war on Libya, part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, in September 1911, on the pretext that Turkey wasn’t sufficiently protecting her own subjects. Many Libyans, however, refused to accept... more » September 17th 17/9/1948 Maria Lee – South Africa Men filled the colourful life of 49-year-old Maria Lee, but like so many women who kill she hated them deep down. She had been married four times and thrice divorced when she was sacked for theft in 1... more » September 17th 17/9/1961 Adnan Menderes – Turkey There are some prime ministers that some of us might like to have seen on the scaffold, but in Turkey they turned that aspiration into reality when they hanged prime minister Adnan Menderes on Sunday,... more » September 19th 19/9/1924 Warren Walters – USA “Where’s your whiskey, Warren?” shouted Tom Kersey as he hammered on the door of Warren Walters’ home in Hazlehurst, Georgia. Kersey hadn’t come for a drink – he was the town marshal searching for ill... more » September 20th 20/9/1959 Four civilians – Iraq The final ignominy for any prison governor must surely be to be hanged in his own prison. That’s what happened on September 20th, 1959, when Abdul Ayub, former governor of Baghdad Central Prison, was ... more » September 20th 20/9/1907 Joseph Labriola – USA John Buglio didn’t want his brother-in-law, dancing master Joseph Labriola, to accompany his wife, Mrs. Buglio, to a square dance in Minnesota. Buglio couldn’t go himself because he was physically han... more » September 21st 21/9/1956 Three EOKA terrorists – Cyprus Told by their lawyers that their appeals had been rejected by the Privy Council in London, three terrorists of EOKA, the group campaigning for independence for Cyprus, said almost in unison: “We are h... more » September 22nd 22/9/1913 Ernest Austin – Australia Standing on the gallows in Boggo Road Prison, Brisbane, on Monday, September 22nd, 1913, Ernest Austin declared: “I say straight out that I highly deserve this punishment. I ask you all to forgive me.... more » September 23rd 23/9/1947 Nikola Petkov – Bulgaria There wasn’t much future in being a democrat when the communists were about to seize power, as Nikola Petkov was to discover. He was the last significant opposition leader to the communist takeover in... more » September 23rd 23/9/1994 Johannes van Damme – Singapore Two Dutch business people arrested in Singapore in 1991 for drug offences suffered remarkably different fates. First, Maria Krol-Hmelak was arrested in her hotel room after the police found 4 lb of he... more » September 26th 26/9/1931 Marko Hranilovic and Matja Soldin – Croatia Croatian newspaper editor Anthony Schlegal was a supporter of the idea of a unified Yugoslavia in 1931, a time when many Croatians were campaigning across the region for their own independent state. T... more » September 26th 26/9/1932 David Bennett – Australia Those who knew David Bennett were certain he would end up on the gallows, and on Monday, September 26th, 1932, that’s exactly what happened. His criminal career began when he was sentenced to life in ... more » September 27th 27/9/1901 Antonin and Vaclav Slanicek – Czech Republic At the instigation of their mother, two Czech brothers, Antonin and Vaclav Slanicek, together with their younger brother Emil, set about beating their father Josef with an axe while he was lying in be... more » September 30th 30/9/1921 Carl Wanderer – USA Hearing someone break into his home in Chicago, Carl Wanderer, a First World War hero who had been awarded a number of medals for gallantry, decided to “have a go.” But in the ensuing affray the intru... more » September 30th 30/9/1982 Samuel Mahahe and Stephen Nare – Zimbabwe Although capital punishment was frequently used in the old state of Rhodesia for murder and “political” crimes, it was thought that it would be abandoned when black rule emerged and the country was re... more »
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