James Billington was a hangman for the British government from 1884 until 1901. He was the patriarch of the Billington family of executioners. Billington died at home from emphysema in the early hours
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Thomas Neill Cream, also known as the Lambeth Poisoner, was a Scottish-Canadian medical doctor and serial killer who poisoned his victims with strychnine. Cream murdered up to ten people in three coun
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…the force of his fall when the trapdoor was released stretched his neck by "an almost incredible eleven inches". Billington executed serial poisoner Thomas Neill Cream on 15 November 1892. Billington claimed that Cream's last words as he fell were "I am Jack the...", and that this was a confession to having been Jack…
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