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ExecutedToday.com » 1735: Patience Boston, converted
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1433: Pavel Kravar, Hussite emissary. 1831: Julien Sorel, in The Red and the Black. 1735: Patience Boston, converted. July 24th, 2012. On this date in 1735, a truculent indentured servant with a name like a primetime drama was hanged in York, Maine (at that time part of the Massachusetts colony), for killing her master’s grandson. All this draws upon a lengthy “Faithful Narrative of the Wicked Life and Remarkable Conversion of Patience Boston alias Samson”. 038;c And it seemed as if the Ground where I we...
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ExecutedToday.com » 1846: John Rodda, nobody chokes baby on acid
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1864: Li Xiucheng, Taiping Rebellion general. 1786: Tom, “faithful, industrious, healthy slave”. 1846: John Rodda, nobody chokes baby on acid. August 8th, 2013. John Rodda was hanged on this date in 1846 behind York Castle on “a charge so unusual and so repugnant to the ordinary feelings of human nature.”. His 18-month-old daughter Mary by pouring sulphuric acid down her throat. The motive: as a member of a burial society. For the death of his little girl. (Was that a lot of money in those days? 1849: Ug...
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ExecutedToday.com » Cards
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Buy this on Selz. Take 13 of the most (in)famous executions in English history, 13 more from the French, another 13 from the Germany, and 13 from Russia and what have you got? 8216;s one-of-a-kind Execution Playing Cards. Exclusively available through this site, this harrowing 54-card deck of playing cards —. Executioners included, of course — plays your favorite card game right out of the box, but be warned: it plays for only the highest of stakes. Where do I order? Just how graphic are these cards?
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ExecutedToday.com » 1849: Ugo Bassi, nationalist priest
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1896: Charles Thiede, the first since Utah statehood. 1934: Anna Antonio, enough for a million men. 1849: Ugo Bassi, nationalist priest. August 8th, 2012. Measure thy life by loss instead of gain;. Not by the wine drunk, but the wine poured forth. For love’s strength standeth in love’s sacrifice;. And whoso suffers most hath most to give. 8216;s poem “Ugo Bassi’s Sermon in the Hospital”. On this date in 1849, the Garibaldian priest Ugo Bassi. Statue of Ugo Bassi at Bologna’s via Ugo Bassi. Garibaldi esca...
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ExecutedToday.com » 1523: Jean Valliere, the first Protestant burnt in France
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1930: Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, strange fruit. 1961: José Isaías Constante Laureano, the last executed in Mexico. 1523: Jean Valliere, the first Protestant burnt in France. August 8th, 2011. On this date in 1523, a Norman hermit named Jean Vallière. Was burned at the stake at a Paris pig market, while the books of the humanistic nobleman Louis de Berquin. Were burned in front of Notre Dame by the Paris parlement. Friend and foe alike tended to project onto Luther. Their project of reform within the c...
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ExecutedToday.com » 1570: John Felton, papal bull promulgator
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2009: Li Peiying, corrupt aviation kingpin. 1849: Friedrich Neff, 1848 Revolutions radical. 1570: John Felton, papal bull promulgator. August 8th, 2014. On this date in 1570, the English Catholic martyr John Felton suffered hanging, disemboweling, and quartering at St. Paul’s Churchyard in London for the Old Faith. Not to be confused with the 17th century assassin of the same name. John’s crime was to hang up publicly in the dark of night before Corpus Christi the papal bull. Would be hatched this very y...
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ExecutedToday.com » 1812: Daniel Dawson, for the integrity of sport
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1859: Ormond Chase, casus belli not quite. 1943: Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, conscientious objector. 1812: Daniel Dawson, for the integrity of sport. August 8th, 2009. On this date in 1812, Daniel Dawson “suffered the awful sentence of the law, at the top of Cambridge Castle, amidst a surrounding assemblage of at least twelve thousand spectators, it being market-day.”. The crowd was an appropriate ornament to the condign punishment of the most famous horse-poisoner. CC BY-NC 2.0. 1990: Sam Cayhall in Gri...
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ExecutedToday.com » 1939: Joe Arridy, on Woodpecker Hill
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1917: Sub-Lt. Edwin Dyett, shot at dawn. 1611: Three accomplices of Elizabeth Báthory, the Countless of Blood. 1939: Joe Arridy, on Woodpecker Hill. January 6th, 2011. Embargoed as of this post’s publication, Joe Arridy’s growing. Had submitted to Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter. An application for a posthumous pardon. On January 7, 2011, Gov. Ritter granted that pardon. 8212; a fitting. Conclusion to a cinematically. Instead, the good citizens let justice run its course to the same conclusion. To the murder b...
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ExecutedToday.com » 1990: Sam Cayhall in Grisham’s “The Chamber”
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1933: The Simele Massacre of Iraq’s Assyrians begins. 2000: Brian Roberson, “Y’all kiss my black ass”. 1990: Sam Cayhall in Grisham’s “The Chamber”. August 8th, 2015. In John Grisham’s The Chamber. It is on August 8, 1990 that the titular enclosure receives its victim in a cloud of lethal gas. Sam Cayhall, a Ku Klux Klansman who had long avoided conviction for bombing a Jewish civil rights lawyer in 1967, has at last been condemned in Mississippi twenty years later. Starring Gene Hackman as the grizzled ...
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ExecutedToday.com » 1959: Harvey Glatman, signature killer
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1895: The Vegetarian perpetrators of the Kucheng Massacre. 2011: Abdul Hamid Bin Hussain Bin Moustafa al-Fakki, sorcerer. 1959: Harvey Glatman, signature killer. September 18th, 2012. On this date in 1959, serial sex killer Harvey Glatman was gassed in San Quentin. The dweeby, jug-eared TV repairman. Manifested an early kinky streak when his parents discovered the rope burns he’d given himself practicing autoerotic asphyxiation. In time, he would do it without that important prefix. Of the Glatman case.
