Barry Owen Jones campained against the execution of whom, who is also the last person to be legally executed in Australia?
Ronald Ryan Ronald Joseph Ryan (21 February 1925 – 3 February 1967) was the last person to be legally executed in Australia. Ryan was found guilty of shooting and killing warder George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison, Victoria, in 1965. Ryan's hanging was met with some of the largest public protests in the history of Australia and led to the end of capital punishment. The death penalty was abolished in 1985.
Roy Michael Roberts Roy Michael "Hog" Roberts (December 18, 1952 – 10 March 1999) was executed in Missouri by lethal injection, for the murder of a correctional officer named Tom Jackson in Missouri's Moberly Correctional Center in July 1983. A 2005 investigation was opened to investigate the possibility of Roberts' innocence.