The Hanged Man: The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan

by Mike Richards

Ronald Joseph Ryan was hanged in Melbourne on 3 February 1967, following his conviction for the shooting murder of a prison warder during a daring escape from the maximum-security Pentridge prison thirteen months before. The decision of the Victorian government in December 1966 to proceed with Ryan's death sentence sparked immediate media condemnation and angry political protests, and put the Liberal premier, Sir Henry Bolte, under siege for the duration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0908011946
• ISBN13: 9780908011940
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Scribe Us
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"