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	Podcast:		Aussie History Podcast
	Episode:		AWP-49- Ronald Ryan: The last man hanged in Australia, Part 1
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:30:10
	Publish Date:		2016-10-21 11:27:21
	Description:		At 8.00 a.m. on 3 February 1967 Ronald Joseph Ryan was hanged in Pentridge gaol in Melbourne for the murder of a prison officer named George Henry Hodson. He had been found guilty of shooting Hodson with a rifle he had taken off another prison guard while escaping from prison. Ronald Ryan was the last person to be executed in Australia. Email me at: jamesdampier.awp@gmail.com
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