• A hanging judge is a judge who has gained notoriety for sentencing convicted persons to death by hanging, or otherwise imposing unusually harsh sentences...
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    Jeffreys PC (15 May 1645 – 18 April 1689), also known as "the Hanging Judge", was a Welsh judge. He became notable during the reign of King James II, rising...
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    Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a standard method of capital punishment since the...
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  • the Wild West, judges were strict, and hangings were commonplace. If a judge was particularly ruthless, he became known as a hanging judge. Isaac C. Parker...
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    Charles Parker (October 15, 1838 – November 17, 1896), also known as "Hanging Judge" Parker, was an American politician and jurist. He served as a United...
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    Creek wanted to hold the gang for trial, the men were brought before "Hanging" Judge Isaac C. Parker. He twice sentenced them to death, the first sentence...
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  • Hanging Judge is a 1952 crime play by the Canadian-British actor Raymond Massey. It first appeared at the Manchester Opera House before transferring to...
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    Roy Bean (redirect from Judge Roy Bean)
    Texas. After his death, fictional Western films and books cast him as a hanging judge, although he is known to have sentenced only two men to hang, one of...
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  • The Hanging Judge is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Edwards, Chrissie White and Hamilton Stewart. Its plot concerns...
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    Indian Territory. Parker served as U.S. District Judge from 1875 to 1896. He was nicknamed the "Hanging Judge": in his first term after assuming his post,...
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    by Deputy U.S. Marshal Lemuel Marks. The pair were tried before "The Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker in Fort Smith, Arkansas; the prosecutor was United...
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  • DeLuxe Color. Hingle portrays a fictional judge who mirrors Judge Isaac C. Parker, labeled the "Hanging Judge" due to the large number of men he sentenced...
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    Sadegh Khalkhali (category 20th-century Iranian judges)
    relish for summary execution" that earned him a reputation as Iran's "hanging judge". A farmer's son from Iranian Azeri origins, Khalkhali was born in Givi...
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    Ebrahim Raisi (category 21st-century Iranian judges)
    being a hanging judge and was nicknamed the "Butcher of Tehran". Other persons were Morteza Eshraghi (Prosecutor of Tehran), Hossein-Ali Nayeri (Judge), and...
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    and faithful services to the Crown'. Jeffreys became known as "the hanging judge". After the Glorious Revolution, Jeffreys was incarcerated "for his...
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  • metal band Armored Saint cameo as themselves, performing their song "Hanging Judge" at The Boiler Room nightclub. Actress Ashley Laurence, who played the...
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  • first album with Anthrax, Sound of White Noise in 1993. The track "Hanging Judge" was featured in the 1992 horror film Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth...
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    1640) April 18 – George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Welsh judge, aka the Hanging Judge (b. 1645) April 19 – Christina, Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632...
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  • film concerns a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegaroon, Texas, who befriends a saddle tramp who opposes the judge's policy against homesteaders. The...
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    Deputy US Marshal Frank Cochran and taken before Judge Isaac C. Parker, known as the "Hanging Judge", in Fort Smith, Arkansas. His only known connection...
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  • observation that the judge's announcement seems to affirm three things: S1: The hanging will occur on Monday or Tuesday. S2: If the hanging occurs on Monday...
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  • in 1991. After his stint at the Voice, Crouch published Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979–1989, which was selected by The Encyclopædia...
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    Michael Ponsor (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges)
    2011. Judge Ponsor was named as the 2015 recipient of the Golden Pen Award from the Legal Writing Institute. Ponsor's debut novel, The Hanging Judge, was...
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    1894. In the years after his death, Begbie came to be known as the Hanging Judge. The son of an Army Colonel, Begbie was born on a British ship en route...
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  • filmed. Originally titled as the Sarazin Curse, it was retitled to The Hanging Judge and then finally to Naked Gun. Decades later, in an interview with Tom...
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  • James Arcene (category People executed by the United States federal government by hanging)
    Marshal Andrews after the case had been cold for more than ten years. "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker presided over the executions, which were held at Fort...
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    Roland Freisler (category Judges in the Nazi Party)
    Klawitter in the German television film Die Wannseekonferenz (2022). Hanging judge – Judge who hands down harsh sentences Kangaroo court – Court with little...
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    of the rest of his working life in law enforcement for the court of hanging judge Isaac C. Parker. Josiah Horner was born on September 15, 1849, in Harrison...
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    his second attempt in 2021. His role earned him a reputation as a "hanging judge", like Sadegh Khalkhali before him. It also earned him his nickname:...
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  • before she dies"). "The next day", Rosemary is executed, a hanging overseen by "the hanging judge", another figure in town who is in attendance at the cabaret...
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