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1808: The Executions of the Third of May

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Two centuries ago today, Napoleon’s troops executed hundreds of prisoners taken during a quashed uprising against them in Madrid.

The carnage gives posterity an 1814 Goya masterpiece. (And this blog’s frontispiece.)

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You read it here first: Cameron Todd Willingham execution profiled in February 2008 now receiving widespread (and official) scrutiny as likely wrongful execution. Is Willingham alone? Hardly: remember the name Ruben Cantu.

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