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Criminal penalty. Death. Joseph Arridy ( / ˈærɪdi /; April 29, 1915 – January 6, 1939) [ 1][ 2] was an American man who was falsely convicted and wrongfully executed for the 1936 rape and murder of Dorothy Drain, a 15-year-old girl in Pueblo, Colorado. He was manipulated by the police to make a false confession due to his mental incapacities.
Ronald Allen Smith [ 63] Kidnapped and murdered 23-year-old Harvey Mad Man and 20-year-old Thomas Running Rabbit, two Native American men in the fall of 1982. 41 years, 153 days. Smith is the only Canadian on death row in the United States.
Nellie Cashman. Ellen Cashman (1845 – 4 January 1925 [ 1]) was an Irish gold prospector, nurse, restaurateur, businesswoman and philanthropist in Arizona, Alaska, British Columbia and Yukon. [ 2] Cashman led a rescue party to miners to the Cassiar Country gold mine in the Cassiar Mountains of British Columbia.
Contact the local sheriff and police departments to determine how many facilities hold new detainees, even if it's only for 24 to 72 hours. If a local jail doesn't send out press releases about deaths — many don't — file public records requests to obtain unreported deaths. 2. Initial reporting on new deaths. When reporting a new death, seek ...
Atwater prison is a high-security facility for men in Merced County, California, 130 miles (209 km) from San Francisco. Around 1,200 people are incarcerated there.
The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [1]. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
A worker at a federal prison in California has died and investigators are examining whether he was exposed to fentanyl shortly before his death, three people familiar with the matter told The ...
Casement converted to Catholicism before his execution and stated he intended to go "to my death with the body of my God as my last meal." [11] Ruth Ellis: Murder: UK: 1955: Hanging: Scrambled egg. [12] Véronique Frantz: Serial murder: France: 1854: Decapitation by guillotine: Café au lait and a bread roll. [13] Fritz Haarmann: Serial murder ...