EPISODE · Oct 21, 2016 · 30 MIN
AWP-49- Ronald Ryan: The last man hanged in Australia, Part 1
At 8.00 a.m. on 3 February 1967 Ronald Joseph Ryan was hanged in Pentridge gaol in Melbourne for the murder of a prison officer named George Henry Hodson. He had been found guilty of shooting Hodson with a rifle he had taken off another prison guard while escaping from prison. Ronald Ryan was the last person to be executed in Australia. Email me at: [email protected]
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