... shot Second Lieutenant Robert J. Cobner ( white ) while Cobb was on guard duty . He was hanged at Shepton Mallet on March 12 , 1943. Almost a year later , on March 5 , 1944 , Private Alex F. Miranda ( white ) shot First Sergeant Thomas ...
... murder of infant daughter Dawn. Executed at Bristol, 16 March 1944. The identity of the hangman is not recorded ... Alex F. Miranda, age 20, convicted of the murder of Thomas Evison and court martialled. Executed by firing squad at ...
... murder , rather than manslaughter , and also to impose the death penalty instead of sending Miranda to prison . In ... Alex Miranda's case that he had refused to give evidence and be cross - examined . Perhaps more to the point was ...
... death in the European Theater were executed near the place of their court martial or their crime. Following is a ... 1944 Harris, Wiley, Jr. [6924547] on May 26, 1944 Miranda, Alex F. [39297382] on May 30, 1944 Brinson, Eliga ...
... 1944, Special Sergeant William J. Durbin of the Devonshire Division police, together with a Constable North brought accused [Private Alex F. Miranda, 39297382] to the police station because of a certain incident (urinating on the street) ...
... 1944 , the General Court - Martial was opened . The men were charged with the murder of Henry Hailstone and the ... ALEX F. MIRANDA In the small market town of Honiton , Devon , Special Sergeant Bill Durbin and Constable North came across ...
... F , Captain John Cecil's Battalion , Colonel Jackman's Regiment , General ... Alex , " was a Warden at the Arkansas Penitentiary for a number of years and ... murder , but escaped before the date set for execution . Soon after ...
"The Fifth Field reveals one of the final secrets of the war: how 96 American soldiers in Europe and North Africa were tried by American General Courts-Martial, convicted by military juries, sentenced to death, executed and buried in an ...
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