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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: November November 1st 1/11/1900 Christiaan Pienaar – South Africa Justice took some strange turns during the Boer War. Two brothers, Rudolf and Andries Pienaar, who were fighting with the Boer Army against the British at Winburg in the Orange Free State, returned to... more » November 1st 1/11/1912 George Redding – USA A killer was terrified when the ghost of his victim appeared out of the ground and beckoned to him. After that he couldn’t confess his guilt fast enough. George Redding probably had a lively imagina... more » November 7th 7/11/1944 Richard Sorge – Japan The coded message that arrived in Moscow’s secret intelligence HQ in 1941 was crystal clear. “Hitler intends to invade the Soviet Union,” it said. Soviet intelligence bosses shook their heads. “Unbe... more » November 8th 8/11/1927 Chin Lung and Soo Hoo Wing – USA For two years there had been a truce in the tong gang wars among Chinese immigrants in America, and on March 23rd, 1927, it was due to expire. What would follow – peace or war? The answer was soon f... more » November 8th 8/11/1957 Roland Roberts – South Africa The specialist who examined Roland Roberts, an 18-year-old South African sailor, concluded that he had behavioural problems – Roberts habitually chewed his beard and smashed his head against lockers o... more » November 8th 8/11/1969 Nahashon Njoroge – Kenya Kenya’s political stage was in transition in the early 1960s. The Mau Mau conflict was recently concluded, and Britain wanted to hand over the reins of government. The country’s constitutional framewo... more » November 10th 10/11/1953 Jack Itumo – Malaysia A great night out on the town in Kautan, Malaysia, for Private Jack Itumo and some of his mates threatened to come to an untimely end when they were ordered back to barracks. Itumo, a Kenyan serving w... more » November 13th 13/11/1970 Maria Groesbeek – South Africa “My husband wouldn’t give me a divorce, so I poisoned him with arsenic,” Maria Groesbeek told police when they came to arrest her. She had scarcely ever been happy in her marriage to Christian Buys. F... more » November 14th 14/11/1946 Charles O’Leary – Australia “Fire!” yelled the timber mill workmen when they saw their rest hut going up in flames at Nangwarry in South Australia. They raced to the hut and dragged out two of their colleagues who were inside. T... more » November 14th 14/11/1960 Fifteen people – South Africa One white man and 14 blacks were paraded for a mass execution at Pretoria Prison on Monday, November 14th, 1960. For the first time ever in South African judicial history the lone white man’s identity... more » November 14th 14/11/1989 Solomon Ngobeni – South Africa Taxi drivers anywhere in the world are particularly vulnerable to armed robbers. Short of cash, Solomon Ngobeni hired taxi driver Mackson Kubayi in the Northern Province of the Transvaal one night in ... more » November 15th 15/11/1949 Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte – India “Mahatma!” chanted the crowd as the frail old man came forward, leaning on a stick, his matchstick-thin arms supported by followers on both sides. They bowed their heads reverentially as the great lea... more » November 16th 16/11/1906 Natalla Habbibulla – Australia “I can only die once,” Natalla Habbibulla said in his death cell when told his life would not be spared for the murder of his wife at their Bristol Street home in Adelaide. He went calmly and unpert... more » November 16th 16/11/1966 Wong Kai-Kei – Hong Kong A salesman who brutally murdered the night watchman at his place of work made off with £7,000 in two cash boxes. The salesman, Wong Kai-Kei, 25, was speedily caught and in September 1966 sentenced to ... more » November 17th 17/11/1904 Joseph Watson – USA “We’re going to the seaside for the rest of the summer, Joe,” Henry Osborn told his houseboy, 18-year-old Joe Watson. “Would you like to come with us?” “No, sir,” Watson replied. “I don’t like the s... more » November 17th 17/11/1990 Naceur Damergi – Tunisia After he came to power in 1987 President Ben Ali of Tunisia developed a reputation for commuting death sentences, but even he stopped short when the man known as “the monster of Nabeul” was sentenced ... more » November 19th 19/11/1971 Justin Obi – Liberia An English girl gave evidence that she saw Dr. Justin Obi, 65, a Nigerian and a professor of biology, shoot Bishop Dillard Brown, a black American, and his assistant Claude Nadar, and on her testimony... more » November 19th 19/11/1998 Three murderers – Japan On Thursday, November 19th, 1998, three middle-aged murderers were hanged in Japan. Masamichi Ida, 56, went to the gallows in Nagova Prison for a murder during a robbery in which three people were kil... more » November 21st 21/11/1975 Peter Mwainaina and Katana Mundu – Kenya Kenya put the clock back somewhat in 1972 with new legislation that introduced the death penalty for robbery. It was not used until Friday, November 21st, 1975, when Peter Mwainaina and Katana Mundu w... more » November 24th 24/11/1944 James Hendricks – France “I’m going out to get some,” 21-year-old James Hendricks, a black GI from North Carolina, announced to his barrack room on the night of August 24th, 1944. He had spent the evening drinking 140-proof C... more » November 24th 24/11/1964 Glen Valance – Australia When farmer Richard Strang, 37, sacked labourer Glen Valance, 23, he made an enemy he hadn’t reckoned with. In June 1964, Valance, bent on revenge, broke into Strang’s farmhouse after tying up three f... more » November 25th 25/11/1988 Adrian Lim, Tan Mui Choo and Hoe Kah Hong – Singapore A man, his wife, and his girl friend belonged to a cult that believed sacrificing children could bring them good luck. They took two children, aged eight and 10, tortured them with electrodes, sexuall... more » November 26th 26/11/1902 Job Williams – USA The wedding was only one day away and the bridegroom was stony broke. Desperate, he sneaked into his employer’s bedroom on the farm where he worked to steal cash that he knew was kept there. Having ... more » November 26th 26/11/1987 George Scheepers, Johannes Wessels and three others – South Africa Hanging three black men was a routine affair in the South Africa of apartheid days, but when two white men were hanged with them at the same time there was something of a stir across the country. The ... more » November 28th 28/11/1942 Borg Pisani – Malta The Second World War provided an ideal opportunity to liberate Malta from the British – at least, so thought Maltese student Borg Pisani, 27. He joined the Italian fascist party and became the first s... more » November 29th 28/11/1941 Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya and Vera Voloshina – Russia “You can’t hang 190 million of us,” 18-year-old Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya jeered at German soldiers as she was placed on a stack of boxes under a simple gallows on Saturday, November 29th, 1941. A Russian... more » November 29th 29/11/1985 Simon Mpungose – South Africa In Empangeni in South Africa they called 35-year-old Simon Mpungose the Hammer Man because he would break into homes in the dead of night and kill the occupants with a hammer before robbing them of th... more » November 30th 30/11/1945 Donald Brooks – USA Mary Finn was a superstitious person, and she was a bit afraid of being alone in her flat on the last night before her marriage. To be attacked, burgled, or even killed on the night before her wedding... more »
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