By Tim Carey
Between 1923 and 1954 the Irish nation performed twenty-nine humans convicted of homicide. just about all executions have been performed within the hanghouse of Mountjoy criminal through contributors of the Pierrepoint family members. the usually stunning and interesting tales of those males and one girl were principally forgotten. Their continues to be lie in the back of criminal partitions as unusual testaments to an deserted shape of punishment. between these buried in Mountjoy are Bernard Kirwan, convicted of killing his brother, notwithstanding a physique used to be by no means conclusively pointed out. Kirwan's presence in Mountjoy felony and his execution encouraged Brendan Behan's play 'The Quare Fellow'. additionally there lie Henry McCabe, convicted of killing six humans in a home in Malahide, and Annie Walsh, convicted of murdering her husband for reimbursement cash. Few had ever been convicted of against the law prior to every one used to be convicted of the main critical of all. The voices of a few appear to whisper from the unmarked graves that it used to be no longer they who conducted the...
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But, whatever the reason, over the next few minutes a number of people risked their lives to stop the thieves and Jordan and McMullen would leave the village empty-handed, having shot two men, one of whom was a mortally wounded policeman. Ultimately, the raid would also cost Felix McMullen his life. 25 revolver and pointed it at Jordan. Afterwards Wolfe said that he wanted ‘to shoot him dead and grapple with the other’ but, at the telling moment, he had not been able to bring himself to shoot someone in cold blood.
Thomas McDonagh pleaded insanity but after forty minutes the jury found him guilty. It was the only time in the history of capital punishment in Ireland that two people were tried and convicted of two different murders on the same day. Thomas McDonagh was hanged on the same day as Thomas Delaney, 12 December 1923. 4 Peter Hynes, Meath Executed on 15 December 1923 for the murder of Thomas Grimstone On 14 January 1922 Thomas Grimstone, a former soldier – known as ‘Tommy the Soldier’ – who was believed to have been living in Cootehill, County Cavan, was outside Drogheda, on Plattin Road on the Meath side of the county border.
How a judge treated a witness during their questioning could also have had a significant, though perhaps unquantifiable, influence on the outcome. At a time when authority figures enjoyed a revered status and were almost beyond questioning, the influence of a judge at a trial could be very great indeed. Some judges were hardly able to stop themselves from making comments during trials. Rarely did those comments favour the defendant. Some cases are borderline, others less so. While it might be unfair to describe any as hanging judges there are cases, particularly the David O’Shea case before Judge Hanna and the Harry Gleeson case before Judge Martin Maguire, in which it is hard not to believe that the judges played a central role in sending the men to their deaths.