Execution Tales Chapter 83 Part III
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III The Rest of Asia & Afghanistan
On her return to New York Maddy expanded her search & moved onto the rest of Asia. She started with China but while she liked some of the pictures of young women being sentenced to death she found the descriptions of the actual executions which were carried out by the prisoners being forced to kneel & then being shot in the back of the head messy & gory.
She decided she much preferred the formal process of judicial hanging
There were several cases that appealed to her.
Japan: Sugako Kanno: Sugako had become a political radical after she was raped by Imperial soldiers when she was a teenager. Along with three male comrades she hatched a plot to assassinate the emperor however before they could put their plans into effect they were arrested, quickly tried & sentenced to death.
It had become obvious during the trial that despite her sex the 29 year old Sugako was the leader of the group. Because of this the authorities decided that she would be the last to be executed. So on the 25th of January 1911 Sugako had to wait & endure the sounds of her comrades being taken to the gallows one after another.
Finally it was her turn & she was led to the trap wearing a traditional white kimono. As was the Japanese custom she was made to kneel, a white hood was placed over head & two twine nooses were placed horizontally around her neck & pulled tight. When the trapdoor fell poor Sugako dropped hardly at all. It was reported that it took 12 minutes for her to slowly strangle to death. A journalist who witnessed her death agonies described them as “Truly horrifying”. Maddy loved the description of the method of hanging used by the Japanese.
Malaysia: Tan Mer: Tan was a 26 year old who fell victim to the Malay government’s very tough anti-drug smuggling laws. She was hanged on the 3rd of July 1987 in Kuala Lumpur prison on a British style gallows.
Malaysia: Hau Tsi Ling: 33 year old Hau was executed in Kaula Lumpur on the 29th of May 1990 along with seven other drug smugglers.
Malaysia: Tan Bee Lee: Aged 28 Tan was another young woman who paid with her life for trying to smuggle narcotics into the country. She was hanged in Kuala Lumpur on the 29th of July 1994.
Malaysia: Mona Fandey: Mona was a still very attractive 45 year former pop singer. She went to the gallows the 2nd of November 2001 for the robbery & brutal murder of a local politician who had been soliciting her support.
Afghanistan: Two unnamed women in their early 20s who had been found guilty of prostitution under the strict Sharia law imposed by the Taliban were taken to a football stadium in Kabul on the 19th of March 2001. On arrival they were dragged struggling & pleading to one set of goal posts from which they were then hanged.
On her return to New York Maddy expanded her search & moved onto the rest of Asia. She started with China but while she liked some of the pictures of young women being sentenced to death she found the descriptions of the actual executions which were carried out by the prisoners being forced to kneel & then being shot in the back of the head messy & gory.
She decided she much preferred the formal process of judicial hanging
There were several cases that appealed to her.
Japan: Sugako Kanno: Sugako had become a political radical after she was raped by Imperial soldiers when she was a teenager. Along with three male comrades she hatched a plot to assassinate the emperor however before they could put their plans into effect they were arrested, quickly tried & sentenced to death.
It had become obvious during the trial that despite her sex the 29 year old Sugako was the leader of the group. Because of this the authorities decided that she would be the last to be executed. So on the 25th of January 1911 Sugako had to wait & endure the sounds of her comrades being taken to the gallows one after another.
Finally it was her turn & she was led to the trap wearing a traditional white kimono. As was the Japanese custom she was made to kneel, a white hood was placed over head & two twine nooses were placed horizontally around her neck & pulled tight. When the trapdoor fell poor Sugako dropped hardly at all. It was reported that it took 12 minutes for her to slowly strangle to death. A journalist who witnessed her death agonies described them as “Truly horrifying”. Maddy loved the description of the method of hanging used by the Japanese.
Malaysia: Tan Mer: Tan was a 26 year old who fell victim to the Malay government’s very tough anti-drug smuggling laws. She was hanged on the 3rd of July 1987 in Kuala Lumpur prison on a British style gallows.
Malaysia: Hau Tsi Ling: 33 year old Hau was executed in Kaula Lumpur on the 29th of May 1990 along with seven other drug smugglers.
Malaysia: Tan Bee Lee: Aged 28 Tan was another young woman who paid with her life for trying to smuggle narcotics into the country. She was hanged in Kuala Lumpur on the 29th of July 1994.
Malaysia: Mona Fandey: Mona was a still very attractive 45 year former pop singer. She went to the gallows the 2nd of November 2001 for the robbery & brutal murder of a local politician who had been soliciting her support.
Afghanistan: Two unnamed women in their early 20s who had been found guilty of prostitution under the strict Sharia law imposed by the Taliban were taken to a football stadium in Kabul on the 19th of March 2001. On arrival they were dragged struggling & pleading to one set of goal posts from which they were then hanged.
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