Comments on: 1923: Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters

By: Fiz

Fiz — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:46:33 +0000

Or “Criminal Justice”, even!

By: Fiz

Fiz — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:17:52 +0000

Micky, read “Crimianl Justice” by Rene Weiss. Then you might begin to understand why people consider Edith Thompson to be innocent.

By: ExecutedToday.com » Executed Today’s Second Annual Report: Once Bitten, Twice Die

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:34:31 +0000

[...] “slow slicing” death “by a thousand cuts” that inspired Georges Bataille. 16. January 9, 1923: Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters - A deadly love triangle turned enduring cause celebre. 17. August 12, 1833: Captain Henry Nicholas [...]

By: MICKY

MICKY — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:40:07 +0000

I totally abhor capital punishment, and I thank God that it’s outlawed in my country, but how could ANYONE believe that Edith Thompson was INNOCENT?! From thinking up awful ways to do her husband in (and putting them down in pen and ink!), to dropping her lover right in the poo as soon as poor old Perce was dispensed with - PUH-LEEZE!

By: ExecutedToday.com » 1923: Susan Newell, the last woman hanged in Scotland

ExecutedToday.com » 1923: Susan Newell, the last woman hanged in Scotland — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:05:59 +0000

[...] application of the law in Scotland had to be seen to be in line with that in England where Edith Thompson had been hanged for what most of us would regard as a much less serious crime only 10 months [...]

By: ExecutedToday.com » Themed Set: Women Who Kill

ExecutedToday.com » Themed Set: Women Who Kill — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:34:35 +0000

[...] have noticed too how remarkably women’s crimes and women criminals and women’s sentences are [...]

By: Greg Eichelberger

Greg Eichelberger — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:37:06 +0000

Good work on this site, but I was sursprised that the writers thereof omitted (or were unaware of) the case of Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady, two alcohol-soaked lovers not only executed at the same time on Dec. 18, 1953 at the Missouri state prison at Jefferson City, but were actually put to death in the SAME gas chamber.

Their crime: The kidnap-murder of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease of Kansas City, the son of a wealthy Cadillac dealer and businessman. Hall had killed the boy almost immediately after abducting him from school, but the couple still collected almost $500,000 from his distraught parents.

Busted with most of the loot (which mysteriously vanished in the hands of a crooked St. Louis cop) while sleeping off one of many benders, the luckless pair was duly convicted and carted off to death row. Their last words, Bonnie: “Are you all right, honey?” Carl: “Yes, mama.”