Tag Archive: capital punishment

A Heinous Murder Most Foul

Author: Satish Sekar May 9, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (February 27th 2013) Despicable Despicable does not begin to describe what happened in one of Walesʼ most notorious miscarriages of justice. The killer of 45-year-old wages clerk Granville Jenkins, Tahir Gass, was a suspect…
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Articles, Capital Idea, Truth and Justice

Albert Pierrepoint, capital punishment, Edmund Davies QC, innocent, James Callaghan, Lily Volpert, Mahmood Mattan, T Rhys-Roberts, Tahir Gass

Infamous Precedent

Author: Satish Sekar January 12, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (October 23rd 2014) Pioneering Executioner The pioneer of the long drop1 William Marwood hanged almost 180 people – some well known in their day, such as the notorious burglar and murderer Charles Peace. A…
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Capital Idea

assassinated, Balina, Bartholomew Binns, capital punishment, Charles Peace, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Daniel Curley, Dublin, Fenians, Frederick Cavendish, hangman, James Carey, Joseph Brady, Kilmainham Gaol, Lincoln Castle, massacre, Michael Fagan, Newgate Prison, Omagh Prison, Patrick OʼDonnell, Phoenix Park, police officer, Royal Irish Constabulary, Sub-Inspector, the Irish National Invincibles, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the long drop, Thomas Burke, Thomas Caffery, Thomas Hartley Montgomery, Timothy Kelly, Under-Secretary, William Glass, William Horry, William Marwood

Rotten to the Core

Author: Satish Sekar January 11, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (October 16th 2010) The Road to Oblivion Nearly a quarter of a century after John Billington despatched the once aspiring executioner Samuel Dougal, who was not deterred by capital punishment from committing murder, Thomas…
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Capital Idea

capital punishment, Charles Broomhead, deterrent, gallows, hanged, James Power, John Bilington, Mr Justice Swift, Norman Birkett KC, Olive Turner, police officer, Robert Wilson, Samuel Dougal, Thomas Pierrepoint, Winson Green Prison

Tales of Deterrence – Introduction

Author: Satish Sekar January 6, 2015 0 Comments

The Ultimate Deterrent? It is often said that capital punishment is the ultimate deterrent. The Fitted-In Project is not convinced. No matter how harsh the punishment it cannot deter criminals who do not think that they will ever be brought…
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Capital Idea

Britain, capital punishment, Edith Thompson, Ernest Moss, gallows, Gwynne Evans, hanged, John Ellis, John Reginald Halliday Christie, John West, Morocco, Peter Allen, police officer, Ruth Ellis, solicitor, the USA, TIMOTHY EVANS

Deterrence – The Ultimate Failure

Author: Satish Sekar November 7, 2014 1 Comment

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (October 19th 2010) Nothing Special At first glance there is nothing special about December 16th 1950, but it proved to be one of the most important dates in the history of British justice. It…
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Articles, Capital Idea

Albert Pierrepoint, appeal, capital punishment, Catherine McCluskey, Constable James Robertson, deterrence, Dugald Moffat, execution, hanged, Lord Justice Keith, murderer, policeman, Steve Wade, William Kevan

“Satish is a dedicated investigative journalist who worked hard to investigate the background to the jailing of the Cardiff Three for the 1988 murder of Lynette White. The success of their appeal against their convictions is largely down to his hard work. He wrote the story of this case and his subsequent campaign to have the case reinvestigated in his book ‘Fitted In: The Cardiff Three and the Lynette White Inquiry’. I wanted to write about the forensic aspects of the case in my book Cold…

Liz Porter Sunday AgeAustralia

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Bob Parsons

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