| 词条 | Michael Manning (murderer) |
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|name = Michael Manning |image = |caption = |alt = |alias = Michael Mangan |birth_name = |birth_date = 1929 |birth_place = Limerick, Irish Free State |death_date = {{Death date |df=yes|1954|4|20|}} (aged 25) |death_place = Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland |cause = Execution by Hanging |victims = Catherine Cooper |country = Ireland |date = 18 November 1953 |endyear = |apprehended = 19 November 1953 |conviction = Rape Murder |sentence = Death |spouse = }} Michael Manning was an Irish murderer who became the twenty-ninth and last person to be executed in the Republic of Ireland. Manning, a 25-year-old carter from Johnsgate in Limerick, was found guilty of the rape and murder of Catherine Cooper, a 65-year-old nurse who worked at Barrington's Hospital in the city, in February 1954.[1] Nurse Cooper's body was discovered on 18 November 1953 in the quarry under the New Castle, Dublin Road, Castletroy where she was found to have choked on grass stuffed into her mouth to keep her from screaming during the commission of the crime.[2] Manning expressed remorse at the crime which he did not deny. By his own account, he was making his way home on foot after a day’s drinking in The Black Swan, Annacotty when he saw a woman he did not recognise walking alone. "I suddenly lost my head and jumped on the woman and remember no more until the lights of a car shone on me." He took flight at this point but was arrested within hours, after his distinctive hat was found at the scene of the crime.[3] Although Manning made an impassioned plea for clemency in a letter[4] to Minister for Justice Gerald Boland, his request was denied despite it also being supported by Nurse Cooper's family. The execution by hanging was duly carried out on 20 April 1954 in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin by Albert Pierrepoint, who had travelled from Britain where he was one of three Senior Executioners. Frank Prendergast, subsequently TD for Limerick East who knew Manning well, recalled later, "Friends of mine who worked with me, I was serving my time at the time, went up to visit him on the Sunday before he was hanged. And they went to Mass and Holy Communion together and they played a game of handball that day. He couldn't have been more normal."[5]Manning left a wife who was pregnant at the time of the murder. His body was buried in an unmarked grave in a yard at Mountjoy Prison. AftermathThe death penalty was abolished in 1964 for all but the murder of Gardaí, diplomats and prison officers. It was abolished by statute for these remaining offences in 1990 and was finally expunged from the Constitution of Ireland by a referendum in 2001. Footnotes1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ireland.html|title=Eire|website=www.capitalpunishmentuk.org}} 2. ^{{Cite book|title = Sentenced to Death: Saved from the Gallows|last = Wallace|first = Colm|publisher = Somerville Press|year = 2016|isbn = 9780992736491|location = Bantry|pages = 97}} 3. ^{{cite news | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/sixty-years-since-dublin-s-last-hanging-1.1765531 | title=Sixty years since Dublin’s last hanging | date=18 April 2014 | first=Ian | last=O'Donnell | newspaper=Irish Times | accessdate=11 May 2018 }} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/40-years-ago/145084/Final-pleas-of-Limerick-man-executed.html|title=Final pleas of Limerick man executed, 60 years ago|website=www.limerickleader.ie}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080403070534/http://www.rte.ie/news/features/referenda/death/tonyconnelly1.html|title=RTÉ News Interactive :. Death Penalty Referendum|date=3 April 2008|website=web.archive.org}} External links
10 : 1920s births|1954 deaths|People from County Limerick|People executed by Ireland by hanging|People executed for murder|Executed Irish people|People executed by the Republic of Ireland|Irish people convicted of murder|Irish rapists|Irish criminals |
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