1803: Peter Stout
1 comment May 13th, 2015 Headsman
Peter Stout hanged on this date at the courthouse of Monmouth, New Jersey for axing 14-year-old Thomas Williams to death when the youth, “the unhappy victim of my barbarity, had given me some abusive language.”
Moved to remorse by a post-arrest religious conversion, Stout pleaded guilty knowing it would incur a sure death sentence and admitted all. Oddly, he successfully prevailed upon the sheriff to leave his hands unbound for the hanging — promising with more confidence than a man might be thought to have in his strangulation spasms that he would not lay them upon the rope.
And according to the pamphlet here attached, Stout did fulfill this stoic pledge: “the shock [of the drop] was so great that he raised his right hand within two or three inches of the rope, as though to seize it, but apparently recollecting himself, took it down … closed it with the other, and thus left this world, it is hoped, for a better.”
On this day..
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- 1945: Bruno Dorfer and Rainer Beck, Wehrmacht deserters - 2013
- 1828: Carbonari in Ravenna - 2012
- 2005: Shanmugam Murugesu, for the chronic - 2011
- 2005: Michael Ross, the Roadside Strangler - 2010
- 1880: Edwin Hoyt, in Bridgeport - 2009
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Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,Murder,New Jersey,Public Executions,USA
Tags: 1800s, 1803, may 13, monmouth, peter stout
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