Last man hanged

1967 Ronald Ryan is the last person legally executed in Australia.

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ABOUT 1900 PEOPLE were executed in the Australian colonies between 1788 and 1901. Capital punishment declined after Federation, with 114 people executed between 1901 and 1967, when Ronald Ryan was the last. Ryan was born in the Melbourne suburb of...

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