1942: Four Jews from Bedzin and Sosnowiec 1950: Eugene LaMoore, the last hanged in Alaska
April 14th, 2013
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(cc) image from blmiers2.
Vast and sparsely-populated Alaska doesn’t have many executions in its history and hasn’t had the death penalty on the books since 1957.
True to its weird reputation, though, the few in its register include some offbeat selections — like our next two days’.
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1996: Antonio James, final judgment
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628: Khosrau II, Sassanid emperor
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1786: Joseph Richards, aspiring milkman
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1785: Barbara Erni, the Golden Boos
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1601: Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
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1937: Desta Damtew, Haile Selassie’s son
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1513: Pietro Boscoli and Agostino Capponi, but not Niccolo Machiavelli
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1848: Harriet Parker, crime of passion
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1815: Six militiamen, Andrew Jackson’s electoral dirty laundry
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1942: Max Hertz, chronicled by Oskar Rosenfeld
