He was a pro-death penalty activist and approved the executions of 33 people, including Matsuo Fujimoto and Ri Chin'u (model of Death by Hanging).
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He was declared guilty (under India's Terrorism and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act) of killing nine bystanders in a 1993 car bombing intended to kill politician Maninderjeet Singh Bitta, and sentenced to death by hanging by a split decision, that remains controversial in human rights circles.
The court sentenced them both to death by hanging; Brown was executed at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison on 24 July 1962, and Kelly was hanged at the same prison on 6 September.
The last abbot, Adam Sedbergh, joined the Pilgrimage of Grace, and suffered death by hanging at Tyburn in June 1537, when the monastic property was forfeited to the king.
The 1972 inquest in to the death by hanging of sailor Nigel Tetley.
He was hanged in a prison in Katsina State on January 3, 2002, for the 2001 fatal stabbing of a woman and her two children; however, he did not have legal representation at his trial (opting for self-defense), and had pleaded not guilty at his initial hearing, but had changed to a guilty plea at a later hearing, after which he was sentenced to death by hanging.
An Australian named Kevin Barlow was sentenced to death by hanging in Malaysia in 1986, for possession of a small quantity of heroin.
In the movie Johnny English, the "jumped-up frenchman" Pascal Sauvage (John Malkovich), is tried for treason when he tries to seize the throne, and the audience is told the penalty is still death by hanging.