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- ↑ National Park Service. "Judge Isaac C. Parker". National Park Service. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
Remembered in Western novels and films as a "Hanging Judge"
- ↑ Knopp, Guido (2002). "4, "The Hanging Judge"". Hitler's Hitmen. United Kingdom: Sutton Publishing.
- ↑ Wygoda, Agnieszka. "Wyrok na Witolda Pileckiego". Institute of National Remembrance (Poland). Retrieved 23 November 2023.
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- Ebrahim Raisi, eighth president of Iran, in his earlier role in the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners
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