Hanging in Queensland
Queensland was - believe it or not - the first part of the British Empire to abolish capital punishment. That happened back in 1922, before...
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Articles about Hangings
Execution scene at Boggo Road, Brisbane, 1903. ( Truth newspaper) Hanged and Dissected... For Picking a Man's Brains One of Brisba...
The Bloody, Bloody Hangings of Ellen Thomson and John Harrison
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) There are a couple of points I always like to make on my 'Hangman's Walk' cemeter...
Dumbing Down Death Penalty History
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) The 100th anniversary of the last hanging to take place in Queensland fell on 22 September 201...
Dissecting and Anatomising Moreton Bay Convicts
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) ‘The sentence of the Court was that they should be taken to the place from whence they came, a...
The Longest Gallows Speech in Queensland History
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) In 1912 George David Silva - variously described as Cingalese, Indian, 'Eurasian’ and a Q...
The Greatest Last Meal of All Time!
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) I recently thumbed through an interesting book called Texas Death Row , a compilation of infor...
The Story of the 'Executed Prisoners' Plaque
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) ‘Some traces of antiquity are so faint that only contrivance secures their recognition. In t...
Chin Up! The Thoroughly Decent Way to Break a Chap's Neck
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) Back in the late 19th century there was serious debate within the British and Australian medi...
The Last Hanging: Remembering 1913
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) We historians get very busy when centenaries come around. I found that out back in 2003 when th...
Capital Punishment Laws
Queensland was a part of New South Wales until 1859, and subject to the laws of that colony until that time. When the First Fleet arrived...
The Hanging Process
The standard rituals of executions at Boggo Road had a precise, theatrical quality. The movement and ceremony was designed to lend the gover...
The Hanging Towns
Unsurprisingly, Queensland's capital seat of capital punishment was Brisbane, where a total of 80 people were 'launched into eterni...
The Queensland Hangmen
Nine different men worked as hangman in Brisbane and Queensland during 1830-1920, executing 94 prisoners between them. Until the 1880s the...
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