Hanging judge

History

17th century

• George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys

  19th century

• Matthew Baillie Begbie, Vancouver and Victoria judge
• Isaac Charles Parker, U.S. district judge

  20th century

• Roland Freisler, president of the Nazi Volksgerichtshof
• Sadegh Khalkhali, Shia cleric of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Manuel Pamaran, former presiding justice of the Sandiganbayan in the Philippines from 1978 to 1986

  Cultural references

• A character in the Bob Dylan song "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"
• Justice Wargrave in Agatha Christie's novel Ten Little Niggers
• The Hanging Judge, a 1918 film directed by Henry Edwards
• A track on the 1991 Armored Saint album Symbol of Salvation
• Justice Sir Francis Brittain in Bruce Hamilton's 1949 novel Hanging Judge; the novel was adapted for the stage by Raymond Massey in 1952, and Boris Karloff played Justice Brittain in the BBC Radio adaptation of the play in 1953.