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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: Ronald Ryan, Max Stuart, Peter Dupas, Bevan Spencer von Einem, Frederick Bailey Deeming, Katherine Knight, Martin Bryant, Elizabeth Woolcock, Keli Lane, Robert Farquharson, Colin Campbell Ross, William MacDonald, John Bunting, David and Catherine Birnie, Julian Knight, Arnold Sodeman, Craig Minogue, Sharpe family murders, John Knatchbull, Carl Williams, Sef Gonzales, Douglas Crabbe, Dante Arthurs, Thomas Ley, James Ryan O'Neill, Kathleen Folbigg, Neddy Smith, Keith Faure, George Witton, Evangelos Goussis, Jean Lee, Martha Rendell, Bradley John Murdoch, Lloyd Crosbie, Allan Baker and Kevin Crump, Leonard Fraser, Paul Denyer, Gregory Brazel, Leith Ratten, Martin Leach, Malachi Martin, Mark Valera, Ashley Coulston, James Vlassakis, Kenneth Brown, Frances Lydia Alice Knorr, Raymond Edmunds, Phuong Ngo, Henry Keogh, Jimmy Governor, Tracey Wigginton, Martha Needle, Len Lawson, Lewis Caine, Maddison Hall, George David Silva, Peter James Knight, Lawrence Kavenagh, Peter Handcock, Jean Eric Gassy, Megan Kalajzich murder, Caroline Grills, Robert Wagner, John Travers, Francesco Mangione, Glen Sabre Valance, James Beauregard-Smith, Bruce Burrell, John Gavin, Ernest Austin. Excerpt: Ronald Joseph Ryan (21 February 1925) - 3 February 1967)) was the last person to be legally executed in Australia. Ryan was found guilty of shooting and killing prison officer George Hodson during a prison escape from Pentridge Prison, Victoria in 1965. The hanging of Ryan sparked some of the biggest public protests ever seen in the history of Australia and led to the subsequent abolition of the death penalty in Australia. Slightly built and 5 ft 8 inches (173 cm) tall, Ryan was a stylish-if spivvy'-dresser, who usually wore expensive, well-cut suits, silk tie and a fedora. He was always keen to impress as a man of means and consequence. He was of ab...
