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39th year  -  N° 358                 Monday, 23 December 2024         Antwerpen		
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Friday 3rd of February 1967

57 years ago He Was the Last Man to Hang



Murderer Ronald Joseph Ryan born as Ronald Edmond Thompson is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Pentridge Prison, Coburg, Victoria, Australia.


Ryan was the last person to be legally executed in Australia. He shot and killed warder George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison in 1965.