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 trainee nurse, on the Victoria Falls to Bulawayo train on Christmas Eve, 1971.
Jenkinson was hanged with three black men on Friday, September 15th, 1972. They were known only as Julius, Eliot and Nason, and were sentenced to death for the murder of a baby girl during a witchcraft ritual.