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1853: John Hurley, medicalized 27 Aug 2013 | 01:22 pm
On this date in 1853, John Hurley, hanged at Galway. He had bludgeoned a 16-year-old serving-girl to death to relieve her of seven and six her employers had entrusted her on a provisioning errand. A...
1874: Private Joseph Michaud, the first in Manitoba 26 Aug 2013 | 02:15 pm
The Canadian province of Manitoba logged its first judicial hanging on this date in 1874. Private Joseph Michaud, an artillery gunner, earned the distinction with one of the classic criminal archetyp...
1916: Benjamin De Fehr, fragging driver 25 Aug 2013 | 01:57 pm
On this date in 1916, Canadian World War I enlistee Benjamin De Fehr was shot for murder. De Fehr was one of 25 Canadians to go to the stake for military offenses during the Great War. Twenty-two of ...
1290: Zavis of Falkenstein 24 Aug 2013 | 01:29 pm
On this date in 1290, the vaunting nobleman Zavis of Falkenstein was beheaded below the walls of Hluboka Castle. For from this eminence ye shall discern Better the acts and visages of all, Than in ...
1849: Rebecca Smith, to save her children from want 23 Aug 2013 | 01:22 pm
(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this day in 1849, forgotten mass murderer Rebecca Smith was hanged before a large crowd outside Devizes Prison in Wiltshire...
1814: John Ashton, Lord Wellington, at Horace Cotton’s first hanging 22 Aug 2013 | 01:46 pm
This isn’t exactly the most historically important execution, but as the Newgate Calendar says, “The circumstance which attended the execution of this unfortunate man alone entitles him to a place in ...
509 B.C.E.: The Sons of Brutus 21 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
August 21 is the harvest-time feast of Consualia, honoring the Roman god of grain storage, Consus. We mark on this occasion the legendary capital punishment inflicted by Lucius Junius Brutus when he ...
1941: Alexander Svanidze, Stalin’s brother-in-law 20 Aug 2013 | 03:05 pm
On this date in 1941,* Stalin’s own brother-in-law was shot in the gulags. In 1906, a whole lifetime before, the Georgian Alexander Svanidze introduced young Joseph Dzhugashvili to his Svanidze’s sis...
1897: Harvey DeBerry, raving like a madman 19 Aug 2013 | 01:24 pm
(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1897, a 23-year-old black man named Harvey DeBerry was hanged for sexually assaulting his employer’s daughter....
1941: 534 Lithuanian Jewish intellectuals 18 Aug 2013 | 01:01 pm
(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1941, 534 Jewish intellectuals were lured out of the Nazi ghetto in the city of Kovno, Lithuania (also known a...
