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Suicide Suicide (self inflicted harm) is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. If possible, please add Geni profiles to one of the method projects, and/or to one of the cause projects, both listed below; or SEE: Cause of Death Projects needed? if not listed. If the method is NOT KNOWN, then add to this "umbrella" project. Suicide is often carried out as a result of despair...
Death by Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck. Please add profiles of people who have died by hanging to this project. 1) Hanging has been used as a method of capital punishment since medieval times, and is the official execution method in numerous countries and regions. 2) Hanging is also a common method of suicide in which a person applies a ligature to...
Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition arising when the body is deprived of oxygen, causing unconsciousness or death; suffocation; a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing.===* Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia, which affects primarily the tissues and organs. * There are many circumstances that can induce asphyxia, all of which are characteriz...
If you know of a profile representing someone hanged in Colonial America , please add to this project. Additional resource links welcome for the "overview." From Wikipedia John Billington is thought to be one of the first men to be hanged in New England. Billington was convicted of murder in September of 1630 after he shot and killed John Newcomen.[6]During the Salem witch trials, most of the m...
Within weeks of the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 and the establishment of Sydney, New South Wales as the first permanent European settlement, Thomas Barrett became the first person to be executed in Australia under British law. Most of the earlier hangings were for stealing, one person hanged for stealing bread due to hunger. These people escaped the gallows in England, to, some of them, ...
Lynchings in Kentucky===From KYGenWeb Lynchings were hangings of course, but where the citizens took the law into their own hands. Again, this list certainly isn't complete, but counties are shown where known. Shown are names, race, crime, date of lynching, county.* AKERSON, Wm. black, rape, 2 Sept 1893, Lincoln* ALEXANDER Alf, black, murder, 25 Dec 1896, Daviess* ALLEN, Richard black, robbery,...
Persons executed under the laws of Australia in Territories and on Islands. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.==Norfolk Island* Peter McLean – 14 December 1800 – Irish convict and political prisoner, hanged without trial for conspiracy to mutiny* John Houlahan – 14 December 1800 – Irish convict and political prisoner, hanged without trial for cons...
Persons executed under Australian Law in the State of Queensland Australia. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.==Queensland* John Bulbridge – 18 December 1830 – Hanged at Moreton Bay for absconding from the penal colony there and committing a robbery at Port Macquarie.* Charles Fagan - 18 December 1830 - Hanged at Moreton Bay for absconding and com...