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218:, Yorkshire, on 25 February 1879. Marwood apparently met Charles Peace on a railway journey a few years before the execution. Peace asked Marwood about his experiences. At the time of the hanging, Marwood reassured Peace he would make it fast and painless with the long drop method.
167:" technique of hanging, which aimed to ensure that the prisoner's neck was broken instantly at the end of the drop, resulting in the prisoner dying of asphyxia, but while unconscious. This was considered more humane than the slow death by strangulation caused by the "
274:, convicted, along with six other men, of the murders of five members of the Joyce family in Maamtrasna. He was hanged, alongside two of the other convicted men, on 15 December 1882 in
634:"IRISH ASSASSINS HANGED; THREE OF THE JOYCE MURDERERS EXPIATE THEIR CRIMES. MYLES JOYCE PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE-- INVESTIGATING THE PHOENIX PARK MYSTERY--WESTGATE ARRIVES IN ENGLAND"
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so his wife could inherit some money. Lamson actually returned from France, certain he had covered his tracks; he was tried and convicted, and hanged at
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He was married twice: first to a woman named Jessey who died during the 1860s, then to Ellen
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for his watch and some coins; Mapleton was arrested almost immediately, but escaped before being arrested again, convicted, and hanged at
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394:Horncastle, Lincolnshire
299:Lord Frederick Cavendish
127:Horncastle, Lincolnshire
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622:. Penguin. p. 179.
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343:Jack Ketch
226:Wandsworth
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