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Persons executed under the Australian Law in the State of Tasmania. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.==Tasmania - incomplete * Thomas England - about Mar 1806 - Hanged at Port Dalrymple for theft of pork from government stores at Port Dalrymple* James Keating - 14 April 1806 - Hanged at Hobart for theft of pork from government stores at Port Dalr...
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...
==Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered== This particular form of capital punishment was used in England, from the 13th century to 1817, though it was legally on the books from 1351 to 1870.It was used for men convicted of high treason.(Women were burnt at the stake, and nobles often, but not always, had their sentences commuted to beheading.)The punishment consisted of being drawn by a horse to the pla...
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, ...
Most executions in South Australia were at the Adelaide Gaol. Several at Mount Gambier and, prior to the gaol opening, in random locations.South Australia was a settlement that was not founded on convicts, and as such, being a free colony were free to set their standards as they saw fitting. The attitude in 1840 toward capital punishment is well expressed by this excerpt "However abhorrent such...
Executed - Western Australia project focused on persons executed under the law of Western Australia, Australia. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.==Executed===Long Island, Houtman Abrolhos* Jeronimus Corneliszoon - 2 October 1629 - Hanged as party to the murder of 125 men, women and children* Lenert Michielsz - 2 October 1629 - Hanged as party to ...
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...
Persons executed under Australian Law in the State of Victoria Australia. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.Victoria* Tunnerminnerwait – Hanged at Melbourne on 20 January 1842 for the murder of two whalers at Cape Paterson* Maulboyheenner – Hanged at Melbourne on 20 January 1842 for the murder of two whalers at Cape Paterson* Charles Ellis – Hange...