Barry Owen Jones campained against the execution of whom, who is also the last person to be legally executed in Australia?
Barry Jones (Australian politician) Barry Owen Jones, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 11 October 1932), is an Australian polymath, writer, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion and former politician. He campaigned against the death penalty throughout the 1960s, particularly against the execution of Ronald Ryan. He is on the National Trust's list of Australian Living Treasures.
Karl Heinrich Meier Karl Heinrich Meier was a Dutchman of German origin (then aged 24), who, with his accomplice Jose Waldberg, a German national (then aged 25), was hanged at Pentonville Prison in London on 10 December 1940, following their conviction at the Old Bailey the previous month. These were the first executions under the Treachery Act 1940.