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John Shaw Torrington (1825 – 1 January 1846) was a Royal Navy stoker. He was part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition to chart unexplored areas of what is now Nunavut, Canada , find the Northwest Passage , and make scientific observations.
Executed person Date of execution Method Crime 1 John Boyer April 21, 1871 Hanging: Murder 2 William Tousant Kensler November 19, 1874 Murder 3 Leroy Donovan January 18, 1884 Murder and robbery 4 George Cooke December 12, 1884 Murder 5 John Owens March 5, 1886 Murder and robbery 6 Benjamin Carter January 26, 1888 Murder 7 George Black
Eighty-five people were executed in the United States in 2000. Forty of them were in the state of Texas; the most carried out within a single year in Texas state history. Two (Betty Lou Beets and Christina Marie Riggs) were female. Five (four in Alabama and one in Virginia) were executed via electrocution. [1] [2]
Indignant at this failure, Penry published early in 1587 The Æquity of an Humble Supplication "in the behalf of the country of Wales, that some order may be taken for the preaching of the Gospel among those people". Archbishop John Whitgift, angry at the implied criticism, had him brought before the High Commission and imprisoned for about a ...
Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2021. A total of eleven people, ten male and one female, were executed in the United States in 2021, all by lethal injection . [ 1 ] With only eleven executions occurring throughout the year, 2021 saw the fewest number of executions within a single year since 1988.
Executed after being imprisoned in the Tower of London for two years. Sir John Neville: 15 June 1541 Executed for treason for failing to report a planned rebellion. Leonard Grey: 28 July 1541 Lord Deputy of Ireland. Executed for treason after allegedly aiding his nephew Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare's escape to France. Francis Dereham
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2017. A total of twenty-three people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2017, all by lethal injection . The state of Arkansas executed four people in April, ending a hiatus on executions in the state which had lasted for over 11 years.