Barry Dickins wrote a film about the last person executed in Australia named what?
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.
Marco Allen Chapman Marco Allen Chapman (1972 – November 21, 2008) was the most recent person executed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Thirty-seven-year-old Marco Allen Chapman was executed on November 21, 2008 at 8:34 p.m. EST on a Friday by lethal injection in a special chamber at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Kentucky. Chapman was executed for his bloody rampage he committed on August 23, 2002 in Warsaw, Kentucky on Weldon Way, where he murdered two children, Chelbi Sharon, 7, and Cody Sharon, 6, by slitting their throats, after he had raped and stabbed their mother, Carolyn Marksberry, the city clerk of Warsaw at the time, over 15 times. 10-year-old Courtney Sharon played dead after she had also been stabbed by Chapman several times, and escaped.