… courtesy of the Foreign News dispatch in the pages of the Boston (U.S.) Daily Advertiser, Dec. 8, 1900:

On this day..

• 1982: Charles Brooks, Jr., the first by lethal injection
• 1799: Francesco Conforti, regalist and republican
• 1683: Algernon Sidney, republican philosopher
• 1938: Anna Marie Hahn, serial poisoner
• 1323: Jean Persant, a black cat, and the body of Jean Prévost
• 1982: Dos Erres massacre
• 1989: Carlos DeLuna, "I didn't do it. But I know who did."
• 1869: Nicholas Melady, the last public hanging in Canada
• 2008: One man pardoned during hanging
• 1549: Robert Kett, rebelling against enclosures
• 1815: Michel Ney, the bravest of the brave
• 43 B.C.E.: Cicero