Tag: capital punishment
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Tom Long hangman
if I drink don’t blame me it’s me occupation they call me hangman with good cause but not without a dash of condemnation there’s none will do it save for me & I console meself in spirit tis one thing to kill a man in battle still another kill his brother in cold blood…
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12 August 1895
127 years ago today, Minnie Dean was executed by hanging at the Invercargill Prison, the only woman ever hanged in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Karen Zelas 