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Archive for September, 2007
The following are the famous last words of prisoners before the execution Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel. I don’t hold any grudges. This is my doing. Sorry it happened.
So what was this ladies crime? did she kill someone? kidnap? stab her mother? rob the minimart (I hear you get shot for that one)? show her face… or god forbid her leg in public? nope… she did the what comes naturally to most humans… sexuality… in her case… she was married, so they say. The woman who got the execution of being hung from the crane in public… well she cheated on the hubby.Maybe he was abusive, maybe he just plain sucked in bed, or maybe he was just not the person she ever, ever wanted to be with in her life… but none of that matters now does it?
I know that many countries are a bit behind the times and have not yet come to realize that people do not always get along… nor do they “stay in love”.. we all wish that we would… but as always shit happens! but now read the part below.. “Many brain washed Pasdar and Basij raped female prisoners. By law of Islamic Regime of Ayatollahs virgin girls if executed will be blessed into the heaven. They are raped, before execution.” hmm, let me get this straight now… rape a virgin… and said virgin goes to heaven… or does the rapist? hell, not really sure on that one.. But one thing I do remember is the story a bit back about a lady stoned to death for the same thing and the global opposition to it… not that it helped her in the end… I think. Now come on people… move into the modern ages! and… some sick shit galleries of the cheating ladies hung by the neck… in public till death!
Execution by hanging from crane? guess they never heard of the English Gallows! As always, its just so hard to imagine so many people standing by, but then terror has been instilled in them for centuries and many of us can not even imagine anything like that… nor can I imagine the inhumanity involved. This kind of TRIAL became routine
here are some more pictures of Executions by hanging in Iran
There are many articles written about gallows, hangings, executions by hanging in England and Europe as well as modern… or more modern techniques. Mostof the below ifo pertains to methods for hanging and gallows made in 1400’s to the 1800’s, however, there are still countries that employ hanging as a method of execution, many of which are still public. Hanging is one of the oldest methods of execution, and it replaced the guillitine(hope I spelled that right!) in many European countries
If the pressure on the side of the neck from the noose is less than 570kg when the body’s fall is arrested, the prisoner will probably suffer prolonged death by strangulation. Should the hangman miscalculate the length of the rope, allowing the body to fall too far, the force will be too great and, unless the rope snaps, death will be by decapitation. Many devices have been created through the centuries to allow for “better” hangings… or so that the prisoner dies due to the hangingand the head does not go rolling into the crowd of spectators. So Check out this gallery of both modern gallows and gallows from the 1400 - 1800’s. Some are artwork because back in those days… well cameras were not yet invented. Hanging grew in popularity from the 5th century onwards in Europe as a means of execution, partly because it provided a spectacle. The body of a murderer, witch or thief was strung high above the crowd, giving everyone a perfect view. Below are some of the various methods and devices used for said hanging. The gallows. In1760 a new design gallows was used to execute the Earl of Ferrers at Tyburn. It comprised a scaffold covered in black baize reached by a short flight of stairs. Two uprights rose from the scaffold, topped with a cross beam. Directly under the beam there was a small box like structure, some 3 feet square and 18 inches high, which was designed to sink down into the scaffold and thus leave the criminal suspended. This was the forerunner of the “New Drop” gallows. The “New Drop” gallows. The “New Drop” pattern.
The Noose. The hood. Pinioning. The “Short Drop” People surviving the gallows and the hanging… Unlike modern Electric chairs where they zap you again till you do die, they had a bit of sympathy and compassion for the prisoner sentenced to “hang by the neck… ’till death”.
The “Long drop” In 1872, William Marwood introduced the “long drop” to Drop tables.
Thanks to this British hanging site for many parts of the above info The names of Modern… almost modern day British Hangmen Robert Anderson (Evans) - of William Calcraft - Little Baddow Executioner between 1829-1874. Thomas Askern -
Thomas Askern - Hangman for William Marwood - Horncastle LincolnshireExecutioner between1874-1883. George Meker or Incher - Executioner between1875-1881. Bartholomew Binns.Executioner between1883-1884. James Berry - Heckmondwike YorkshireExecutioner between 1884-1891. Executioner between 1892-1895. James Billington -
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| Posted (sic) in (public, hangings) on September-27-2007 | (0) Comments | Read More |
These 2 hangings show that there are far worse places to get caught doing something wrong than the US. Crime and punishment in the Middle East 
January 2, 2004
2 men attempted a robbery of some sort, the details of I do not have, however they ended up caught by the military.
The 2 robbers were killed, one wounded and 2 others were arrested.
The following day on January 3, 2004, the government decided to hang the dead bodies in two different locations in the city of Farah. The dead bodies were hanged in a crowded square of city for over 8 hours and thousands of people including children watched the horrible scenes which reminded the era of terror under Taliban.
The officials of Farah, said to be mainly warlords belonging to fundamentalist groups of the Northern Alliance, demonstrated their real nature that there is not much difference between them and the Taliban who were largely criticized for this kind of brutal punishments under their rule. photos courtesy of Rawa
| Posted (sic) in (Electrocutions) on September-26-2007 | (3) Comments | Read More |
One of the grizliest(hope I spelled that correctly… may be grisley… ehh, ya know what I mean) recent time Executions that may have also been a wrongfull conviction? Poor dude had no uck in life nor in death it seems!
May 4, 1990. Jesse Joseph Tafero. Electrocution.
During the execution it is said that six-inch flames erupted from Jesse Joseph Tafero’s head.
3 jolts of power were required to stop his breathing.
So what went wrong you may ask? well now…State officials claimed that the botched execution was caused by what other than… “inadvertent human error”
Someone used a synthetic sponge instead of the recommended natural one needed. They attempted to support this theory by sticking a part of a synthetic sponge into a “common household toaster” and observing that it smoldered and caught fire.
So Jesse Jo Tolfero basically smoldered to death?
The story of Mr. Jesse Joseph Tolfero (parts taken from http://www.law.northwestern.edu)
Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs and Jesse Joseph Tafero were tried and convicted then later sentenced to death by the same judge for the 1976 murders of two law enforcement officers in Broward County, Florida.
Jacobs, Tafero, their 10-month-old daughter, Jacobs’ 6-year-old son, and Walter Norman Rhodes, a friend of Tafero’s, were sleeping in a car that was approached by Highway patrolman Phillip Black, along for the ride with Black was a friend, Donald Irwin, a vacationing Canadian constable.
The murder and kidnaping
After Black learned via radio that Rhodes had a criminal record, gunfire broke out. Black and Irwin, the patrolman and his friend, laid dead and the 2 men, woman and 2 childeren sped off in the patrol car, driven by Rhodes.
At a nearby apartment complex, Rhodes stole a car and kidnapped the man in the car. Rhodes later lost control of the car and the wrecked it.
Jacobs and Tafero maintained from the beginning that Rhodes had shot the officers, and that they had no choice but to go along with him after the shooting.
There were two eyewitnesses to events surrounding the murders, neither contradicted Jacobs’ and Tafero’s version of what happened. Nor was their version contradicted by physical evidence. Both Tafero and Rhodes had gunpowder residue on their hands, a fact that was consistent with Tafero’s claim that Rhodes handed him the gun after shooting the officers. There was no gunpowder residue on Jacobs’ hands.
The convictions and sentencing
The convictions of Jacobs and Tafero rested primarily on the testimony of Rhodes, who was allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, rat on your buddies to save your own ass… done all the time I’m assuming.
In Jacobs’ case, the prosecution also presented the testimony of a jailhouse informant, Brenda Isham, who claimed Jacobs had confessed.
The trials were surrounded by massive publicity, which was overwhelmingly prejudicial. All prospective jurors acknowledged knowing about the case, and neither jury was sequestered. The jury in the Jacobs case recommended a life sentence, but Judge M. Daniel Futch, Jr. imposed death, as he had done earlier in the Tafero case.
Futch, known as “Maximum Dan,” was a former Florida Highway Patrol trooper who kept a miniature replica of an electric chair on his desk. That is one sick ass bastard!
The appeals
In 1978, the Florida Supreme Court temporarily relinquished jurisdiction of Jacobs’ case, directing Futch to hold a hearing on whether the Broward County State Attorney had improperly withheld exculpatory evidence during pretrial discovery, including reports stating that Rhodes had told a prison guard that he alone shot the officers and that he had given answers during a polygraph test that were inconsistent with his trial testimony (1978).
“Maximum Dan” found no merit in Jacobs’ claims, saying that Rhodes’ purported statement to the prison guard had been equivocal and that it was impossible to establish precisely what Rhodes had said during the polygraph examination because there was no verbatim transcript of the questions and answers. The results of the polygraph itself, were not discoverable. As a matter of law, polygraph results.
Jacobs’ death sentence vacated
In 1981, the Florida Supreme Court agreed that the discovery issues did not warrant a new trial, affirming Jacobs’ conviction. However, the court commuted her sentence to life in prison, holding that Judge Futch or “Mr. Maximum Dan… with the replica Electric chair” had lacked sufficient basis to override the jury’s recommendation of a life sentence.
Tafero, well he was the unlucky bastard here really. He remained on death row, despite growing doubts about the credibility of prosecution’s star witness (thse be the jailhouse informants trying to save thier own asses).
Both Tafero and Jacobs then sought federal writs of habeas corpus. His was denied, but hers won a hearing before a federal magistrate. During that proceeding, Brenda Isham, the jailhouse informant who had helped send Jacobs to death row a decade earlier, admitted that she had committed perjury at the trial and that Jacobs, in fact, had not confessed.
Isham said that, before she agreed to testify because detectives had warned her that she might “make an enemy” of the Broward County State Attorney if she refused to testify against Jacobs…. may be a hint of police corruption in Broward county… but I can’t really be sure.
Jesse Joseph Tafero’s macabre execution… the head on fire one
Jacobs’ petition for a writ of habeas corpus was still pending when, on May 4, 1990, Tafero was put to death in the Florida electric chair. Officials interrupted the execution three times because flames and smoke shot out of his head. During the first interruption, he continued to move and breathe.
Before the execution, filmmaker Micki Dickoff had initiated correspondence with Jacobs. The two had been childhood friends, growing up in Indiana. Dickoff soon became persuaded of Jacobs innocence and obtained affidavits used to supplement the pending habeas corpus petition, which the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted in February 1992. A bit to late for poor Jo… however…
The following October, the Broward County State Attorney offered to release Jacobs if she would enter a plea in which she did not admit guilt, (isn’t that what they had been saying for a decade now?) Otherwise she faced a re-trial and possibly another death sentence. She took the plea deal and was released, no-brainer there, I guess. Unlike her boyfriend Jo, hers was still intact.
Dickoff made a documentary on the case entitled “ In the Blink of an Eye,” which aired as an ABC movie of the week in 1996.
Tafero’s botched execution, and several similarly macabre ones, prompted Florida finally to abandon its electric chair in favor of death by lethal injection in 2000. ( and some of those are really worth reading, like the one where the chemicals sprayed onto the witnesses)
Although the prosecution continued to maintain that Tafero was guilty, the evidence strongly suggested otherwise.
So Sunny or Sonia was:
Sentence: Death for the murders, life for the kidnaping
Release date: October 9, 1992
Months wrongfully incarcerated: 200
Date of birth: 1947
Age at time of arrest: 28
Defendant race: Caucasian
Race of victim(s): Caucasian
Defendant prior felony record: None
Known factors leading to wrongful conviction: Testimony of man who ultimately confessed to the murder
Did an appellate court ever affirm conviction? Yes
Exonerated by: Confession of actual killer, recantation of jailhouse snitch, intervention of filmmaker
Compensation for wrongful imprisonment: None
and poor Jesse Jo Tolfero… well he fried in the electric chair and they may have been a bit too late on that one
Much of the foregoing summary was prepared by Rob Warden, executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions. Thank you Mr. Warden
The following is a list of other people which may have been executed wrongfully:
James Adams (Florida)
Odell Barnes, Jr. (Texas)
James Beathard (Texas)
Brian K. Baldwin (Alabama)
Charles Anthony Boyd (Texas)
David Castillo (Texas)
Clyde Coleman (Texas)
Roger Keith Coleman (Virginia)
Willie Jasper Darden, Jr. (Florida)
Girvies Davis (Illinois)
Robert Nelson Drew (Texas)
James Otto Earhart (Texas)
Tony Farris (Texas)
Gary Graham (aka Shaka Sankofa) (Texas)
Lionel Torres Herrera (Texas)
Jerry Lee Hogue (Texas)
Jesse Jacobs (Texas)
Carl Johnson (Texas)
Malcolm Rent Johnson (Oklahoma)
Leo Jones (Florida)
Richard Wayne Jones (Texas)
Amos King (Florida)
Davis Losada (Texas)
Robert Madden (Texas)
Justin Lee May (Texas)
Frank Basil McFarland (Texas)
Larry Eugene Moon (Georgia)
Joseph O’Dell (Virginia)
Charles Rector (Texas)
Kenneth Ray Ransom (Texas)
Roy Michael Roberts (Missouri)
Cornelius Singleton (Alabama)
David Spence (Texas)
David Stoker (Texas)
Jesse J. Tafero (Florida)
Thomas M. Thompson (California)
Martin Vega (Texas)
Freddie Lee Wright (Alabama)
| Posted (sic) in (death penalty crimes) on September-26-2007 | (0) Comments | Read More |
Here is a list of US states that allow the death penalty with a list of crimes that hold the death penalty as acceptable punishment.
If you read the list below you will see that most are very serious crimes that the death penalty applies to… unlike these here
1. During World War I anyone found to be a homosexual in the French army was executed.
2. Hundreds of years ago in Japan anyone who attempted to leave the country was instantly executed…. I wonder if thats what the poor bastards in the picture to the right did?
And we can not forget the real or fictition one from Indonesia ( I do not know which) regarding execution for masturbation.
The following is taken from The Bureau of Justice Statistics, Capital Punishment 2005, (December 2006, NCJ 215083) lists the following as capital crimes, by state:
Alabama. Intentional murder with 18 aggravating factors (Ala. Stat. Ann. 13A-5-40(a)(1)-(18)).
Arizona. First-degree murder accompanied by at least 1 of 14 aggravating factors (A.R.S 13-703(F)).
Arkansas. Capital murder (Ark. Code Ann. 5-10-101) with a finding of at least 1 of 10 aggravating circumstances; treason.
California. First-degree murder with special circumstances; train wrecking; treason; perjury causing execution.
Colorado. First-degree murder with at least 1 of 17 aggravating factors; treason.
Connecticut. Capital felony with 8 forms of aggravated homicide (C.G.S. 53a-54b).
Delaware. First-degree murder with aggravating circumstances.
Florida. First-degree murder; felony murder; capital drug trafficking; capital sexual battery.
Georgia. Murder; kidnaping with bodily injury or ransom when the victim dies; aircraft hijacking; treason.
Idaho. First-degree murder with aggravating factors; aggravated kidnaping, perjury resulting in death.
Illinois. First-degree murder with 1 of 21 aggravating circumstances.
Indiana. Murder with 16 aggravating circumstances (IC 35-50-2-9).
Kansas. Capital murder with 8 aggravating circumstances (KSA 21-3439).
Kentucky. Murder with aggravating factors; kidnaping with aggravating factors (KRS 32.025).
Louisiana. First-degree murder; aggravated rape of victim under age 12; treason (La. R.S. 14:30, 14:42, and 14:113).
Maryland. First-degree murder, either premeditated or during the commission of a felony, provided that certain death eligibility requirements are satisfied.
Mississippi. Capital murder (97-3-19(2) MCA); aircraft piracy (97-25-55(1) MCA).
Missouri. First-degree murder (565.020 RSMO 2000).
Montana. Capital murder with 1 of 9 aggravating circumstances (46-18-303 MCA); capital sexual assault (45-5-503 MCA).
Nebraska. First-degree murder with a finding of at least 1 statutorily-defined aggravating circumstance.
Nevada. First-degree murder with at least 1 of 15 aggravating circumstances (NRS 200.030, 200.033, 200.035).
New Hampshire. Six categories of capital murder (RSA 630:1, RSA 630:5).
New Jersey. Murder by one’s own conduct, by solicitation, committed in furtherance of a narcotics conspiracy, or during the commission of the crime of terrorism (NJSA 2C:11-3C).
New Mexico. First-degree murder with at least 1 of 7 statutorily-defined aggravating circumstances (Section 30-2-1 A, NMSA).
New York. First-degree murder with 1 of 13 aggravating factors (NY Penal Law Sec. 125.27). (NOTE: On June 24, 2004, the New York death penalty statute was ruled unconstitutional.)
North Carolina. First-degree murder (NCGS 14-17).
Ohio. Aggravated murder with at least 1 of 10 aggravating circumstances (O.R.C. secs. 2903.01, 2929.02, and 2929.04).
Oklahoma. First-degree murder in conjunction with a finding of at least 1 of 8 statutorily-defined aggravating circumstances.
Oregon. Aggravated murder (ORS 163.095).
Pennsylvania. First-degree murder with 18 aggravating circumstances.
South Carolina. Murder with 1 of 11 aggravating circumstances (16-3-20(C)(a)).
South Dakota. First-degree murder with 1 of 10 aggravating circumstances; aggravated kidnaping.
Tennessee. First-degree murder with 1 of 15 aggravating circumstances (Tenn. Code Ann. Sec. 39-13-204).
Texas. Criminal homicide with 1 of 9 aggravating circumstances (TX Penal Code 19.03).
Utah. Aggravated murder (76-5-202, Utah Code Annotated).
Virginia. First-degree murder with 1 of 13 aggravating circumstances (VA Code 18.2-31).
Washington. Aggravated first-degree murder.
Wyoming. First-degree murder.