Photo from here, with the caption “Execution of Mir Hashim (Tabrizi). Mir Hashim and his forces had joined the pro-Mohammad Ali Shah forces in laying siege to Tabriz, fighting against the forces of Sattar Khan and Bagher Khan. Mir Hashim and his brother were executed on 9 August, 1909.” The Persian constitutional revolution that this execution putatively advanced in revolutionary Tabriz also ended with gallows.
On this day..
- 1956: Andreas Zakos, Charilaos Michael, and Iakovos Patatsos, Cypriots
- 1870: William Dickson, the last in Kansas for a lifetime
- 1941: Sheyna Gram and the Jews of Preili
- A Day in the Death Penalty Around the Martyrology
- 2000: Brian Roberson, "Y'all kiss my black ass"
- 1849: Friedrich Neff, 1848 Revolutions radical
- 1786: Tom, "faithful, industrious, healthy slave"
- 1934: Anna Antonio, enough for a million men
- 1961: José Isaías Constante Laureano, the last executed in Mexico
- 1856: Elizabeth Martha Brown, Tess of the D'Urbervilles inspiration
- Themed Set: Thomas Hardy
- 1943: Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, conscientious objector
- 1993: Mohamed Mustafa Tabet, serial rapist with a badge