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It was the most highly publicized execution in months and a banner opportunity for Britain's No. 1 Anti-Capital-Punishment Crusader, plump Mrs. Violet Van der Elst. The widow of a Belgian shaving-cream tycoon (Shavex), her jail-gate antics before the hanging of British murderers used to...
"Some day the crowds will be so great and so stirred up against capital punishment that the authorities won't dare go ahead with an execution. But I am before my time, I suppose. They crucified Christ, they stabbed Lincoln, they put Mrs. Pankhurst in prison, and I suppose...
I would like to congratulate TIME on the splendid manner in which it handled the story of the execution of Bruno Hauptmann [TIME, April 13]. It was refreshing to see that at least one periodical had the good taste to give the mere facts and leave out the superfluous details...
When Elizabeth died and James I, who hated tobacco and feared Spain, succeeded her, Ralegh was left in a dangerous spot. Spain wanted his head, and James was more than willing to comply. On a cooked-up charge of treason, Ralegh was tried and condemned to death. On the eve...
Night before the execution Ralegh met an old friend, asked him if he expected to be on hand next day and said it might be hard to get a seat: "I do not know what you may do for a place. For my own part. I am sure of one...