Piracy in the Atlantic World been coerced into joining the pirate gang. Two of the other captives were not as lucky, and were "condemned to die." The third captive was pardoned. Three years later, another female pirate, Mary Crickett, along with five others, was ordered to be executed. When Mary Read and Anne Bonny were captured, they faced execution. However, once their pregnancies were known, they were pardoned from the gallows. Both women were sentenced to prison, where Mary Read eventually perished and Anne Bonny later escaped. In 1724, the first edition of A General History of Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
Alex Malley Alex Malley Alex Malley FCPA, is the former chief executive of CPA Australia. He was removed by the CPA board of directors in late June 2017 after months of controversy started by his salary and the use of more than $60m of CPA funds for self-promotion on his book and tv program. Malley began his career working at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He quit the job and began working at the University of Western Sydney. He began as an accounting academic at Macquarie University in 1993. In 2007 he was elected president of the professional accounting body in 2007.