Reading Time: 4 minutes The Anglo-Irish playwright, poet and novelist ended up imprisoned, the casualty of his own foolishness
Tag: Capital punishment
Ruth Ellis the last hanged woman in Britain
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ruth Ellis’ beauty and glamour couldn’t save her from the gallows for the murder of her boyfriend
The man who cheated death again and again
Reading Time: 3 minutes Caryl Chessman won eight stays of execution until the gas chamber finally caught up with him on May, 2, 1960