A year ago today, Dok Macuei Marer was executed by hanging at Wau Prison in South Sudan.
Dok assassinated tribal chief Chut Dhuol in August 2014, in a possible revenge killing for the previous murder of another chief. There is very little information about this whole affair readily accesible online, a circumstance consistent with the sketchy state of information about the death penalty in the world’s newest state. (Executed Today itself predates South Sudanese independence by four years.)
On this day..
- 1751: Thomas Quin, Joseph Dowdell, Thomas Talbot, and five others at Tyburn - 2020
- 1771: Daskalogiannis - 2019
- 1581: Christman Genipperteinga - 2018
- 2008: Tsutomu Miyazaki, the Nerd Cult Killer - 2017
- 1660: Jan Quisthout van der Linde condemned to drown in New Amsterdam - 2015
- 1800: Suleiman al-Halabi, assassin of General Kleber - 2014
- 1930: 13 Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang cadres, for the Yen Bai mutiny - 2013
- 1842: Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly, Great Game diplomats - 2012
- 1825: Isaac, Israel, and Nelson Thayer, in Buffalo's only public hanging - 2011
- 1939: Eugen Weidmann, the last public beheading in France - 2010
- 1795: The last Montagnards - 2009
- 1747: Mary Allen and Henry Simms, Gallows Lovers - 2008