In 1965, convicted criminal Ronald Ryan escaped from Melbourne’s Pentridge Prison with fellow inmate Peter Walker, during which prison officer George Hodson was shot and killed. Ryan was convicted of his murder and hanged in 1967, becoming the last person executed in Australia, but controversy over the evidence and the refusal to grant him a reprieve sparked a fierce national debate over capital punishment.
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