Capital punishment – the sentencing of convicted offenders to death for the most serious crimes and carrying out the sentence, as ordered by a legal system – first appeared in New Zealand in a codifie
Execution box from the collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum
Drawing of Maketū, the first person formally executed in New Zealand
Death certificate of Minnie Dean. On 12 August 1895, Dean was hanged at Invercargill Gaol after being found guilty of infanticide, becoming the only woman ever to have been executed in New Zealand.
Gordon Grieve
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Gordon Glendinning Grieve was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
Grieve in 1959
