26-year-old Leading Aircraftsman Andrew Brown, Prisoner No. 11421, was hanged at Wandsworth prison on Tuesday the 30th of January 1945, by Albert Pierrepoint and Steve Wade. The LPC4 form records that he weighed 145 lbs and was given a drop of 7′ 7″, which caused fracture/dislocation of the vertebrae and severance of the spinal cord from the medulla oblongata.
-From the January 30, 2019 Facebook post of the Capital Punishment UK Facebook page. Click through to find out why neighbors failed to help the elderly victim even though she cried out “murder” as he assailed her…
On this day..
- 1953: Mat Indera, for the Bukit Kepong incident
- 1937: Georgy Pyatakov, Anti-Soviet Parallel Trotskyist
- 1944: The Homfreyganj massacre of the Andaman Islands
- 1744: Skinnar Per Andersson, legislator
- 1801: Four entrapped Jacobins
- 1857: Jean-Louis Verger, doctrinaire
- 1913: John Williams, the Case of the Hooded Man
- 2011: Ahmed Ali Hussein, enemy cleric
- 1474: Not the Archer of Meudon
- 1996: William Flamer, Alito'd
- 1661: Oliver Cromwell, posthumously
- 1649: Charles I