Burke and Hare murders two men were hanged in December 1831 for the crime. A bill was quickly introduced into Parliament, and gained royal assent nine months later to become the Anatomy Act 1832. This Act authorised dissection on bodies from workhouses unclaimed after 48 hours, and ended the practice of anatomising as part of the death sentence for murder. The events of the West Port murders have made appearances in fiction. They are referred to in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1884 short story, "The Body Snatcher", and Marcel Schwob told their story in the last chapter of "Imaginary Lives" (1896), while the Edinburgh-based author
The "Frenchman's Garden" Murders The "Frenchman's Garden" Murders The Frenchman's Garden Murders were a series of 6 murders that were perpetrated in the town of Peñaflor, Province of Seville, Spain, between 1989 and 1904. The crimes were committed by Andrés Aldije Monmejá, known as "El Francés" for being a native of Agen, France, and José Muñoz Lopera. Both men had set up an illegal gambling house, robbing and murdering some of the visitors. After being condemned to the death penalty, both were executed by garrote on October 31, 1906 in the Pópulo Prison of Seville. Based on these facts, the film director Paul Naschy