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Queensland abolished the death penalty in 1922. Tasmania did the same in 1968. The Commonwealth abolished the death penalty in 1973, with application also in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. Victoria did so in 1975, South Australia in 1976, and Western Australia in 1984. New South Wales abolished the death penalty ...
He was suspected of 31 murders. Two victims had been murdered while Gaskins had been incarcerated—one while Gaskins had been on death row. Later claimed on death row that he had murdered between 100 and 110 victims. Executed by electric chair in 1991. Ravinder Kumar India: 2008–2015 15 30+ Serial rapist who killed children of poor families ...
Australians convicted of bank robbery: Brenden Abbott (born 1962), known as the Postcard Bandit [ 1] Darcy Dugan (1920–1991), bank robber and New South Wales' most notorious prison escape artist [ 2] Keith Faure (born 1951), from Victoria, career criminal [ 3] Victor Peirce (1958–2002), from Melbourne, member of the Pettingill family [ 4]
Carl Williams (criminal) Carl Anthony Williams (13 October 1970 [ 2] – 19 April 2010) was an Australian convicted murderer and drug trafficker from Melbourne, Victoria. He was a central figure in the Melbourne gangland killings as well as their final victim. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 35 years for ...
Transferred to Bandyup Women's Prison in Australia in late 2007. [ 36] Robert Halliwell. Sydney. Drug trafficking (heroin) August 2000. Arrested with Deane-Johns whilst attempting to post heroin to Australia. Police later found another 110 grams of heroin in Halliwell's apartment. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Australia's prime minister, John Howard, said the Australian government would oppose any death sentences imposed. [26] On 6 December 2005, Australian lawyers Robert Richter QC and Brian Walters QC called for the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions to extradite the nine to Australia on heroin conspiracy-related charges. [27]
South Australia. Date apprehended. 23 May 1979. The Truro murders is the name given to a series of murders uncovered with the discovery in 1978 and 1979 of the remains of a young woman and teenage girl in bushland east of the town of Truro in South Australia. After police searches, the remains of seven women and girls were discovered in total ...
The gallows, last used in 1964 Executions at Fremantle Prison in Fremantle, Western Australia, were carried out between 1889 and 1964. Other places of execution in Western Australia included the Roundhouse at Fremantle; the old and new Perth Gaols ; on the island of Rottnest ; at the sites of the capital offence, such as at Maddington and Norrilong, York ; on the eastern end of The Causeway at ...