What is William Joyce?
{{Infobox criminal | name = William Joyce | image = William Joyce.jpg | caption = Joyce shortly after capture, 1945 | birth_name = William Brooke Joyce | birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|04|24|df=y}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|01|03|1906|04|24|df=y}} | death_place = [[Wandsworth Prison]], [[London]], United Kingdom | death_cause = [[Execution by hanging]] | resting_place = New Cemetery, [[Bohermore]], [[Galway]], Ireland | resting_place_coordinates = {{coord|53.27692|N|9.03025|W}} | nationality = {{ubl|American<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uniset.ca/nold/1946AC347.pdf|title=Joyce Appellant; and Director of Public Prosecutions|year=1946|publisher=House of Lords|page=1|access-date=20 September 2009}}</ref>|German}} | other_names = Lord Haw-Haw | criminal_penalty = [[Capital punishment|Death]] | known_for = Broadcasting German propaganda in World War II | alma_mater = [[Birkbeck College, London]] | party = [[Nazi Party]] | conviction = [[High treason]] | criminal_status = [[Executed]] }} '''William Brooke Joyce''' (24 April 1906&nbsp;– 3 January 1946), nicknamed [[Lord Haw-Haw]], was an American-Irish [[Fascism|fascist]] supporter and [[Nazi propaganda]] broadcaster of [[Nazi Germany]] during the [[World War II|Second World War]]. At the end of the war, after capture, Joyce was convicted in Great Britain of high treason in 1945 and [[Capital punishment|sentenced to death]]. He was hanged in Wandsworth Prison by [[Albert Pierrepoint]] on 3 January 1946, making him the last person to be executed for treason in the [[United Kingdom]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Joyce, William}} [[Category:1906 births]] [[Category:1946 deaths]] [[Category:Executed English people]] [[Category:American radio personalities]] [[Category:Irish radio personalities]] [[Category:Nazis]] [[Category:People executed by hang