2008: One man pardoned during hanging 1828: Joseph Hunton, forger
December 8th, 2010
Headsman
“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.”
–Proverbs 22:1
In which our voyeuristic gaze is drawn, as so often, to the spectacle of English subjects once esteemed and now consigned to the lowest of the dead.
On this day..
- 1452: Antonio Rizzo, cannonaded - 2019
- 1718: Avram Lopukhin, Peter the Great's brother-in-law - 2018
- 1905: Mary Rogers, chloroformer - 2017
- 1915: Cordella Stevenson lynched - 2016
- 1746: Charles Radclyffe, twice Jacobite rebel - 2015
- 1975: Isobel Lobato, wife of East Timor's Prime Minister - 2014
- 1934: John and Betty Stam, China missionaries - 2013
- 1922: Four anti-Treaty Irish Republicans - 2012
- Hand of Glory: 1,500 days and counting - 2011
- 2009: Yang Yanming, hedge fund manager - 2011
- 1828: Joseph Hunton, forger - 2010
- 1982: Suriname's "December murders" - 2009
- 1793: Madame du Barry, who hated to go - 2008
- 1596: Francisca Nunez de Carvajal, her children, and four other crypto-Jews of her family - 2007
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