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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: October October 1st 1/10/1915 12 Indian soldiers – India Beware the wrath of the British Raj! That message went unheeded when 18 Indian cavalrymen serving in Britain’s Indian army conspired to overthrow British rule. They cut telegraph wires, stockpiled wea... more » October 2nd 2/10/1930 Gordon Northcott – Canada “My neighbour keeps on using disgusting language within earshot of my family,” Gordon Northcott told the Riverside, California, district attorney. “My nephew is living with me and he’s only 15 and tra... more » October 3rd 3/10/1901 Jan Rehor – Czech Republic “Hold your rifle properly, soldier!” Sergeant Blazek roared at the young recruit on the barracks square. In answer, the recruit cried, “I’ll show you how to hold a gun!” and, releasing the safety catc... more » October 4th 4/10/1906 Pokotillof – Ukraine When a Russian revolutionary known only as Pokotillof was sentenced to be hanged in Odessa on Thursday, October 4th, 1906, the city’s military governor, short of an executioner, paid a convicted murde... more » October 4th 4/10/1972 Franciscus Vontsteen – South Africa Sonja Raffanti was in the middle of a torrid love affair with Franciscus Vontsteen in Pretoria when, for reasons best known to herself, she suddenly decided to marry someone else. And after they were ... more » October 5th 5/10/1922 Carel Stassen – South Africa Times were bad in South Africa in the spring of 1922. Following World War I the economic depression was so acute that martial law was declared in March. Faced with rising costs and a fall in the price... more » October 5th 5/10/1917 Joseph Castelli and Francisco Vetere – USA “I’m fed up with my wife,” Joseph Castelli confided to his lifelong friend Francisco Vetere. “I want your help to get rid of her.” The fiendish plan he then outlined was that he would pay Vetere to se... more » October 6th 6/10/1909 Martha Rendell – Australia She was the stepmother from hell – killing her stepchildren by painting the backs of their throats with hydrochloric acid. There was nothing in it for her – she just didn’t want to care for the kids a... more » October 6th 6/10/1949 Samuel Adeniran, Faleye and Gabriel Labinjoh – Nigeria A local chieftain of the Ondo region of Nigeria, Samuel Adeniran, and a witch doctor known as Faleye, were hanged on Thursday, October 6th, 1949, in Lagos Prison for their part in the ritual killing o... more » October 8th 8/10/1980 Mustapha Pehlivanoglu and Needat Adali – Turkey The two men classified as “terrorists” who stood on the gallows in Ankara Prison, Turkey, on Wednesday, October 8th, 1980, were worlds apart in their views. Mustapha Pehlivanoglu was a right-wing extr... more » October 8th 8/10/1982 Lim Beng Nooi – Malaysia A 52-year-old widow was the first woman to be hanged under Malaysia’s stringent laws against drug-trafficking, She was Mrs. Lim Beng Nooi, who met her fate at dawn on Friday, October 8th, 1982, at Pud... more » October 9th 9/10/1992 Harjinder Jinda Singh and Sukhdev Sukha Singh – India Two Sikh assassins waited for two years to wreak their revenge on General Arun Vaidya, 60, India’s most decorated soldier, who ordered the attack on the holy Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple at Amritsar... more » October 10th 10/10/1928 Charles Shader – USA A jailbreak from Joliet Prison, Illinois, in the spring of 1926 cost the life of Assistant Warden Peer Klein, shot dead as seven convicts forced the gates and escaped. Over the next few months six of ... more » October 10th 10/10/1984 Erroll Farrell, Noel Jordan and Melville Inniss – Barbados When three convicted murderers went to the gallows in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Wednesday, October 10th, 1984, they were the last executions on the island. Erroll Farrell, 27, shot dead Mark Bryan, 28... more » October 11th 11/10/1901 Johannes Jansen and Nicolaas Rautenbach – South Africa The British Army built a gallows in the lower half of a windmill to hang Boer rebels at Vryburg, Cape Province, in the dying embers of the South African war. After a short trial by a military court th... more » October 13th 13/10/1955 Harvey Allwood – New Zealand When John Hughes, a meat factory worker in Makarewa, near Invercargill, New Zealand, went missing in March, 1955, police wanted to routinely question his friend, fellow-factory worker Harvey Allwood. ... more » October 15th 15/10/1998 Trevor Fisher and Richard Woods – Bahamas “We pray that others will take note that our island society is fed up with this heinous type of crime,” said the Rev. Simeon Hall, president of the Bahamas Christian Council, when two murderers went t... more » October 16th 16/10/1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop and nine other leading Nazis – Germany Ten leading Nazis sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Tribunal on September 30th, 1946, were not told of the date or the place of their execution, but some of them suspected it was their last night wh... more » October 17th 17/10/1919 Thomas Fitzgerald – USA In a case with familiar echoes down the century, neighbours hurried to police headquarters when six-year-old Janet Wilkinson vanished from her Rush Street, Chicago, home on July 22nd, 1919. “Tom Fit... more » October 18th 18/10/1957 Raymond Snowden – USA Cora Dean was so depressed by the death of her husband that, to take her mind off her sadness, she used to drive into downtown Garden City, Idaho, to drink and play the gambling machines on Saturday n... more » October 19th 19/10/1928 William Hickman – USA Having decided he would like to go to a school for divinity and needing $1,500 to pay the tuition fees, William Hickman, 20, figured the best way was to kidnap a little girl and ransom her. He chose M... more » October 19th 19/10/1976 Michael Shobeck – Bahamas Voices in the head of 21-year-old American tourist Michael Shobeck suddenly told him to kill three other American tourists travelling with him in January 1974, because they were “all agents of the dev... more » October 19th 19/10/1931 Alexander Ondi – Hungary “I don’t know whether I’m American or Hungarian,” declared Alexander Ondi, 21, as he mounted the scaffold on Monday, October 19th, 1931, in Budapest. Born in Texas, where he lived for 11 years before ... more » October 24th 24/10/1924 Louis Morel, Frank Gambino, Anthony Frank and Giuseppe Serafini – Canada Because of the notoriety of the four prisoners charged with murder, police kept crowds 300 yards away from the prison where they were held during their two-week trial. Louis Morel, Frank Gambino, Anth... more » October 25th 25/10/1926 William Coulter and Phillip Treffene – Australia Two detectives who arrived unannounced at a secret treatment plant for stolen gold were ruthlessly shot dead by the gold smelters, who then cut up the bodies, partially burned them and threw the remai... more » October 25th 1984 25/10/1984 Hidir Aslan – Turkey The last man hanged in Turkey, Hidir Aslan, 28, was a Communist who went to the gallows on Thursday, October 25th, 1984, after being found guilty of high treason. Aslan planned terrorist acts aimed at... more » October 26th 26/10/1941 Marsha Bruskina, Volodia Shcherbatsevich and Kiril Trus – Belarus After the German invasion of Russia the Nazi commandant of Minsk in Belarus decided, in the face of local resistance, to frighten the people into submission with a public hanging. Marsha Bruskina, a 1... more » October 28th 28/10/1996 Arshad Jamil – Pakistan Nine “terrorists” killed in Pakistan on June 13th, 1996, were quickly found not to have been terrorists at all, but simply poor peasants who were murdered in cold blood. The man behind the atrocity wa... more » October 29th 29/10/1965 Eighteen men – Singapore A bold experiment in prison reform went horribly wrong on the island of Pulau Senang, Singapore’s much-acclaimed prison without bars, when between 70 and 90 prisoners – about a quarter of the detainee... more » October 31st 31/10/1907 “Ragozinikova” – Russia She was 20 years old, very beautiful, known only as Ragozinikova, and the last three days of her life were to say the least eventful. On October 28th, 1907, she presented herself at the Central Prison... more »
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