Welcome to the story of Rattlesnake James - a man who never saw a get rich quick scheme he didn’t like. A Serial scammer, a serial killer and last man hanged in California. Leave me a voice message by clicking on: https://anchor.fm/gabrielle523/messageReferences for this episode:https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Hanging http://www.decidedlygrim.net/?p=6427https://ladailymirror.com/2012/05/02/snake-killer-dies-on-gallows/ http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanging.htmlhttps://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-supreme-court/1785171.htmlhttps://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/rattlesnake-killer-los-angeles-robert-s-james/ https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lisenba-raymond.htm https://www.britannica.com/topic/guillotinehttps://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/shadow-boxing/201610/curious-history-hanging http://theconversation.com/why-the-guillotine-may-be-less-cruel-than-execution-by-slow-poisoning-121034 http://www.executedtoday.com/tag/major-lisenba/https://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/about/methods/electrocution.htmhttps://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Hanging-of-the-Hartlepool-Monkey/https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/02/asia/japan-prisoner-executions-intl-hnk/index.htmlhttps://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/methods-of-execution/description-of-each-method