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Day: January 2, 2020

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Sarah Michael

Man who avoided execution once is hanged for murder

January 2, 1953 London, England John James Alcott (22) is hanged for murder Alcott had nearly been executed a few years before his hanging. In 1949, at the age of 17, Alcott was in the Army and stationed in Germany. He claimed he was traveling with another man when the pair came across a lodging…

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