Why was William Johnson executed?
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WILLIAM JOHNSON\n\nExecuted at Newgate, 7th of January, 1833, for murdering a Wig Maker's Son, whose Body was found in a Ditch\n\n\nOR......\n\n\nJohnson Executed For Videotaped Robbery-Slaying \n\nInmate's Final Words: 'Tell Mama I Love Her' Posted: 6:54 p.m. CDT June 11, 2003 Updated: 7:04 p.m. CDT June 11, 2003
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not to hang, that would be "the easy way out". he should suffer for what he did, stay in prison for a life time.
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This punishment was usually reserved for the worst of crimes in history - treason.  If a queen was unfaithful to her husband, the king, this was considered treason, a crime against the state, as the king was the state.  That was why Anne Boleyn was beheaded (she narrowly escaped burning), and why her supposed lovers were tortured and beheaded.  Anyway, in this particular gory punishment, you were hanged until very nearly dead; then you  were disembowelled and your private parts cut off, all while you were still conscious.  A good executioner could do it very quickly, so that you didn't die too early.  Then your body was divided; the parts could be sent to different parts of the country and displayed for all to see.  Many heads would be displayed on spikes on old London Bridge as a warning to traitors.  This happened to William Wallace, for one.
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Stanley Tookie Williams ought to have been granted clemency. Putting him to death served no purpose and the execution was carried out only a few weeks before the California Legislature begins debating a moratorium on all executions in the state for several years. Mr. Williams did some dreadful things, but others have been convicted of worse, before and since Mr. Williams was sentenced and not been condemned. Capital punishment, which I oppose on principle, was imposed on Mr. Williams not because of what he was convicted of but because of who he was and when he was convicted. That he was put to death makes a mockery of the ideas of redemption and rehabilitation.\nNo, he should not have been executed.
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He was proved innocent in a court of law.  Why would you hang and innocent person.\n\nCoach
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Bush also be booked under similar charges. He lied to the world about Weapons of Distruction and bombarded Iraq. Killed so many. Why Bush should not be hanged for misinterpretation and mis representation.
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His grandfather, Juan Rodríguez Lozano, was a Freemason and a Republican captain who was executed by the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War.\n\nI couldn't find WHY they killed him though.
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People may want to consider this when making that decision -- his efforts and actions during his trial have been consistent with making the jury angry at him. He is on record as saying he wants to be killed, since that would make him a martyr.\n\nGiven the conditions in prison, is being put to death actually  a worse fate than life without parole?
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After he gets his fair trial he will most assuredly be executed.  The trial is something he did not give to others that he put to death, however the least we can do is show the world that he can get better treatment than those he dealt with.
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Charles Manson was not executed because during his stay in prison California decided not to execute people.  I believe they have changed the law again, but he is grandfathered in now.  I don't believe any of the Manson family was executed.  Maybe Tex Watson was.
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From what I read, he was executed on 2-21-06
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The guy killed thousands of his own people, what else he was expecting?, I think they going to hang him in 30 days..☺
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Britain was the first country to abolish hanging in the year of 1951.\nThe last woman to be hanged was Ruth Ellis.\nThe last person to be hanged was Timothy Evens.\nMr Timothy Evans was subsequently pardoned. He was Innocent.
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Only if they are personally repsonsible - which is unlikely. You cannot impose collective punishments, particularly for historical events - to do so would be as unjust as the original crime. It would be no more justified than arresting every black man in a town because one black man committed murder 30 years earlier.\n\nIt should also be borne in mind that it was not only white men that indulged in slavery - many slaves were captured and sold into slavery by rival tribes or by arabs. Slavery at the time was not generally recognised as wrong - attitudes and recognition of basic human rights have come a long way in the last 200 years. No slave trader would have considered that they were doing anything wrong (as indeed they weren't on a strictly legal basis). If any slave traders should be punished, it should be those who continued after slavery was made illegal.\n\nTony Blair's intention to use the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery in the UK to express regret at slavery is about right (I guess he had to get something right eventually). There is no need to apologise because the people who should be apologising are dead, as are the people who should be apologised to and the slavery industry was not recognised at the time as anything other than a legitimate business, taken in the context of the times. It is only now with hindsight that we see how truly awful slavery was and in that respect an expression of regret to the descendants of those affected by slavery seems about right.\n\nNeither racism nor sexism are by any means exclusively the failings of white men.
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YES HE SHOULD BE HANGED TILL DEATH.  IT IS LESSON FOR OTHERS AND JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THIS ATTACK.
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He is a hangman and his son happened to be sentenced to death
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In Victorian England,people who were designated criminals used to be executed by hanging.They would stant on an overturned bucket while the executioner put the noose around their necks.After the clergyman's prayer and the victim's last words,the executioner would kick the bucket,causing the victim to become suspended and be strangulated.\nl don't know why it's the dead person who's referred to as having kicked the bucket..