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 - 2020
- 1870: William Dickson, the last in Kansas for a lifetime - 2018
- 1941: Sheyna Gram and the Jews of Preili - 2017
- A Day in the Death Penalty Around the Martyrology - 2016
- 2000: Brian Roberson, "Y'all kiss my black ass" - 2015
- 1849: Friedrich Neff, 1848 Revolutions radical - 2014
- 1786: Tom, "faithful, industrious, healthy slave" - 2013
- 1934: Anna Antonio, enough for a million men - 2012
- 1961: José Isaías Constante Laureano, the last executed in Mexico - 2011
- 1856: Elizabeth Martha Brown, Tess of the D'Urbervilles inspiration - 2010
- Themed Set: Thomas Hardy - 2010
- 1943: Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, conscientious objector - 2009
- 1993: Mohamed Mustafa Tabet, serial rapist with a badge - 2008