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- 2010
- Mar14131211100908071842: Maketu Wharetotara, New Zealand's first execution“On this date in 1842, New Zealand carried out its first official execution: the hanging ...”061900: Ada Chard Williams, the last woman hanged at Newgate“On this date in 1900, Ada Chard Williams was hanged for murdering an infant girl. A ...”0504030201
- Feb282726252423221880: Ippolit Mlodetsky, Loris-Melikov's would-be assassin“If you were a person of any privilege or official authority in late 19th century ...”21201388: Nicholas Brembre, Mayor of London“One day after Nicholas Brembre's treason trial was interrupted for the sudden capture and summary ...”19Daily Double: The Merciless Parliament“"Politics is a blood sport." -Aneurin Bevan Not in every era do yesterday's defeated political factions get ...”18171872: Gomburza1 comments161535: Etienne de la Forge, John Calvin's friend“On this date in 1535, as a 25-year-old religious dissident named John Calvin fled Paris, ...”151413121554: Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days' Queen1 comments111585: Frederick Werner, the executioner's brother-in-law“Being 'broken on the wheel' was an agonising and prolonged way in which to die ...”
1 comments1009081910: George Reynolds and John Williams“At 6:30 this morning a century ago, two black men were hanged in Kansas City, ...”07061885: George Gibson and Wayne Powers“As of today, Scott County, Va., has gone 125 years since its last hanging -- ...”
2 comments0504030201 - Jan313029282010: Five for the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman“Shortly after midnight this morning -- local time at Dhaka Central Jail -- five officers ...”272625Daily Double: Throwback Executions“This blog traffics in the the human forces that drive men and women to the ...”242322211670: Claude Duval, gentleman highwayman4 comments201677: William Drummond, for Bacon's Rebellion“"Mr. Drummond, I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia; you ...”19181676: Joshua Tefft, drawn and quartered in Rhode Island“On this date in 1676, Puritan colonist Joshua Tefft (or Tifft, or Tift) became perhaps ...”Themed Set: Resistance and Rebellion in the Restoration“ Published in 1677. It was a world turned upside down. The Stuart line was (for now) restored ...”17161682: Alexander Cockburn, hangman, condemned“Domestic annals of Scotland: from the reformation to the revolution (reporting an item initially recorded ...”15141772: Susanna Margaretha Brandt, Faust inspiration“On this date in 1772, Susanna Margaretha Brandt was beheaded with a sword in Frankfurt ...”1312111009Death Be Not Proud: Executed Today wins a Clio10 comments08072009: Haidar Ghanem, human rights activist“On this date last year, in the midst of Israel's bloody incursion, Gaza's Hamas government ...”06051993: Westley Allan Dodd, child molester6 comments041943: Jerzy Iwanow (Georgios Ivanof)1 comments031645: John Hotham the Elder“On this date in 1645 -- one day after the same fate befell his son ...”021645: John Hotham the Younger“On this date in 1645, John Hotham the Younger -- former M.P., and (too) briefly ...”01
- 2009
- Dec3130292009: Akmal Shaikh, mentally ill drug mule3 comments28272625242008: Nine hanged in Iran“Iran has been dinged for ramping up its execution pace in the wake of its ...”232221201974: Mun Segwang, errant assassin“This morning in Seoul, Mun Segwang (various similar transliterations possible) was hanged for an assassination ...”191862: An unknown Confederate deserter“From a letter written by one Private Thomas Warrick of Alabama, cited in The Life ...”
1 comments181716151983: John Eldon Smith, mafioso Willy Loman“On this date in 1983, Georgia's electric chair* got its first use in 19 years. The ...”1413121777: Rev. Benjamin Russen, child rapist“On this date in 1777, crying out "Stand clear! Look to yourselves! I am the ...”1110092007: Seven Tuareg and Arab civilians“On this date two years ago, seven civilians were apparently summarily executed by Niger security ...”081982: Suriname's "December murders"1 comments07061823: Dr. Edme Castaing, the first to kill with morphine“On this date in 1823, French physician Edme Castaing expiated upon the scaffold history's first ...”0504030201 - Nov30Daily Double: Lesser War Criminals“It's the big wheels in villainy one naturally thinks of when reckoning the Third Reich's ...”292827261600: Hansel Pappenheimer, following his family“A few months ago, Executed Today detailed the dreadful fate of the Pappenheimers, a family ...”252423221895: Florence English and Amanda Cody“On this date in 1895, Amanda (Mandy) Cody became the first woman hanged in Georgia's ...”2120191817161885: Louis Riel, Metis leader1 comments1514131534: Barthélemi Milon, for the Affair of the Placards“On this date* in 1534, a crippled shoemaker's son went to the stake ... the ...”1211101780: Corregidor Antonio de Arriaga, by his slave“On this date in 1780, Incan-Peruvian indigenous leader Tupac Amaru launched his insurrection against the ...”09081845: Lavinia Burnett and Crawford Burnett“On this date in 1845, husband-and-wife murderers Crawford and Lavinia Burnett (nee Sharp) danced a ...”0706052009: Khristian Oliver, Bible basher30 comments041793: The smitten Adam Lux“Among all the strange and pathetic love-stories of the Revolution, when hearts were won within ...”0302011463: David of Trebizond and his heirs“On this date in 1463, the last regal claimants of Byzantium's last successor state were ...”
- Oct311938: The terrified John Deering“We meet people in these pages who go to the scaffold joking, or sarcastic, or ...”3029282008: Michitoshi Kuma, "It can't be undone now"“On this date in 2008, during a record-setting year for executions, Japan hanged Michitoshi Kuma, ...”272625242322212019181672: Thomas Rood, the only incest execution in America“On this date in 1672, Thomas Rood (or Rhood, or Roode, or even Rude) achieved ...”17161946: The Nuremberg Trial War Criminals“Victor's justice was never better served than this date in 1946, when the brass of ...”
4 comments151439: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus, erotic poet“On an uncertain date likely around early October* in 39 A.D., former Roman Consul Gnaeus ...”1312111009081789: Rachel Wall, female pirate“(Thanks to Jonathan Shipley of A Writer’s Desk for the guest post. -ed.) "Into the hands ...”Themed Set: Women Who Kill“These pages have noticed many women to fall under the executioner's shadow. We have noticed too ...”072007: Five women in Hoiryeong Public Stadium“On this date in 2007, according to the Daily NK, five women were publicly tried, ...”060504031283: Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales2 comments0201 - Sep301630: John Billington, signer of the Mayflower Compact“On this date in 1630, Massachusetts' Plymouth Colony held its first hanging -- of a ...”2928271996: Dr. Mohammad Najibullah4 comments26252007: Michael Richard, whose time ran out1 comments241749: Antonio Camardella“On this date in 1749, an unrepentant Antonio Camardella was hanged in Rome's Piazza di ...”23222006: Three Sulawesi Christians“On this date in 2006, Catholics Fabianus Tibo, Marianus Riwu and Dominggus da Silva were ...”211950: Col. Choi Chang-Shik, military engineer“On this date in 1950, an unfortunate military engineer was shot by the South Korean ...”201918: The 26 Baku Commissars1 comments191692: Giles Corey, "more weight!"“Monday, September 19, 1692. About noon, at Salem, Giles Corey was press'd to death for ...”181716Daily Double: Turkey's "left-wing coup"“With this post, we unveil a new metadata category, the Daily Double -- related executions ...”1514131847: The San Patricios“At 9:30 a.m. this day, as the American army raised the Stars & Stripes over ...”121914: A French soldier, "yours also is a way of dying for France"“12 September, 1914. General de Maud'huy had just been roused from sleep on the straw of ...”11101852: John and Jane Williams, slaves“On this date in 1852, John and Jane Williams hung in Richmond for the hatchet-murder ...”091986: Andrew Sibusiso Zondo and two other ANC cadres“On this date in 1986, African National Congress cadre Andrew Sibusiso Zondo was hanged in ...”
2 comments08071984: Ernest Dobbert, child abuser“At 10:09 a.m. this morning in Starke Prison, 46-year-old Ernest Dobbert threw a wink to ...”0605041942: Bishop Gorazd of Prague5 comments0302011851: Narciso Lopez, filibuster“On this date in 1851, Venezuelan-born adventurer Narciso Lopez was garroted in Havana for his ...” - Aug311852: Fatimih Baraghani, Tahirih the pure“On this date in 1852, the Persian poet Fatimih Baraghani was strangled with her veil ...”30292827261857: Adolf Schlagintweit, intrepid explorer1 comments25241751: Thomas Colley, witch-killer3 comments2322211915: Eleven Arab nationalists“On August 21, 1915, the Turkish governor of Syria had 11 Arab nationalists publicly hanged ...”20191626: Henri Talleyrand, Comte de Chalais“The name Talleyrand is generally synonymous with the famed "Prince of Diplomats" who spanned the ...”
1 comments1817161972: Mohamed Oufkir“When last we met Mohamed Oufkir in these pages, he was violently suppressing an attempted ...”15142004: Dhananjoy Chatterjee, the last hanged in India ... for now“On this date in 2004,Dhananjoy Chatterjee hanged at Calcutta's Alipore Central Jail for the 1990 ...”
2 comments131868: Thomas Wells, the first private hanging in England“The hanging this date at Kent's Maidstone Prison of Thomas Wells for the murder of ...”121952: Night of the Murdered Poets“As night fell this evening in Moscow, 13 prominent Soviet Jews were shot in Lubyanka ...”111997: Zoleykhah Kadkhoda survives stoning“On this date in 1997, Zoleykhah Kadkhoda was tried, condemned, and immediately stoned in the ...”10090807060504031726: Mary Standford, shunning convict transportation“(Thanks to Anthony Vaver of Early American Crime for the guest entry, reposted from a ...”021904: Heinrich, a Herero“The Times of London reported thus, on Aug. 30, 1904: GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) BERLIN, ...”01 - Jul311959: Cho Pong-am, Presidential runner-up“A half-century ago today, South Korean strongman Syngman Rhee, winner of that country's 1956 presidential ...”301540: Three Papists and Three Anti-Papists“On this date in 1540, two days after disposing of his former Vicegerent of Spirituals ...”291600: The Pappenheimer Family“On this date in 1600, Bavarians thronged to a half-mile-long procession in Munich for the ...”28271915: 167 Haitian political prisoners2 comments26251826: The Decembrists1 comments242322212019181865: Chief Ahan of the Tsilhqot’in“"The Indian Ahan," read the dispatch in the British Columbian this date in 1865, "will ...”171793: Charlotte Corday, Marat's murderess2 comments16151977: Princess Misha'al bint Fahd al Saud and her lover“On this date in 1977, a 19-year-old royal adulteress and her paramour were executed in ...”
1 commentsThemed Set: The Feminine Mystique“Our tour through the world's condemned has made the company of many a woman, but ...”141939: Howard Long, New Hampshire's most recent hanging“As of today, it's been 70 years since the U.S. state of New Hampshire carried ...”131971: Ten failed putschists in Morocco“On this date in 1971, four generals, five colonels and a major who had attempted ...”121110091294: Rane Jonsen, Marsk Stig conspirator“On an unknown date in 1294, the former page of the late Danish King Eric ...”081839: William John Marchant“On this date in 1839, a spooked 18-year-old servant was hanged at Newgate Prison for ...”071896: Charles Thomas Wooldridge, of The Ballad of Reading Gaol“On this date in 1896, Royal Horse Guard trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge was hanged by ...”06051600: Jean Livingston, Lady Waristoun“At 4 o'clock in the morning this day -- as a favor to her powerful ...”Themed Set: The Ballad“The ballad and the scaffold go together like Jack and Ketch. Narrative popular poetry, the ballad ...”
1 comments04031931: Ernesto Opisso“On this date in 1931, a carpenter became the first Gibraltar native hanged by the ...”0201 - Jun301962: Georges Kageorgis, assassin“On this date in 1962, Georges Kageorgis was shot at Usumbura (now Bujumbura) for assassinating ...”29282726251579: Hatano Hideharu, en route to the Tokugawa Shogunate“On this date in 1579, the treacherous execution of a rebellious Japanese lord set events ...”242008: Tseng Fu-wen, drug dealer“June 26 is U.N. Anti-Drug Day, and if this year follows the recent trend, China ...”23221920: Dennis Gunn, hanged by a fingerprint1 comments21201962: Marthinus Rossouw, for services rendered“On this date in 1962, Marthinus Rossouw was hanged in Pretoria after an unusual defense ...”19181716151413Unspecified Year: Clever Tom Clinch, hung like a hero“This 1726 poem by Jonathan Swift toasts a charismatic client of the Tyburn tree -- ...”121987: Jimmy Glass, electrocution appellant“On this date in 1987, Jimmy L. Glass died in Louisiana's electric chair -- having ...”111725: John Gow and his pirate crew“On this date in 1725, John Gow and seven comrade raiders Having mutinied to commandeer ...”10091864: Doctor Edmond-Désiré Couty de la Pommerais, poisoner“At dawn this morning before the walls of La Roquette, a homeopath convicted of poisoning ...”0807060504031098: Yaghi-Siyan, commander of Antioch“On this date in 1098, the Turkish commander of Antioch put to flight by the ...”021989: Sandra Smith and Yassiem Harris3 comments01
- May31302000: Fu Xinrong, involuntary organ donor“One Fu Xinrong was shot in the back of the head this day in China's ...”29282726252423221946: Karl Hermann Frank7 comments211894: Emile Henry, because there are no innocent bourgeois“On this date in 1894, Emile Henry was guillotined in Paris for bombing the Cafe ...”201918171972: The rapists of Maggie dela Riva5 comments161975: Michael X2 comments1514131880: Edwin Hoyt, in Bridgeport“From the New York Times. THE DEATH OF A PARRICIDE. HANGING OF EDWIN HOYT AT BRIDGEPORT -- ...”1211101994: John Wayne Gacy, scary clown1 comments091947: Willie Francis, this time successfully2 comments080706050403021450: William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk“Henry VI, Part 2 -- Act IV, Scene 1 The Coast of Kent. [Alarum. Fight at sea. ...”01
- Apr301611: Louis Gaufridi, sorceror-prince“On this date in 1611, the pathetic figure of a former priest -- his body ...”291676: Anna Zippel, Brita Zippel and the body of Anna Mansdotter“On this date in 1676, two sisters were beheaded in Stockholm in one of Sweden's ...”2827261861: Paula Angel ... but why?“Thanks to Laura James for the guest post, which originally appeared on her outstanding blog ...”
1 comments2524231992: Billy Wayne White, after 47 minutes“On this date in 1992, longtime heroin user Billy Wayne White waited 47 minutes while ...”222120191945: Gen. Charles Delestraint1 comments18171355: Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice1 comments161514131961: John A. Bennett, the last American military execution (so far)“As of this date, it's been 48 years since the United States military last carried ...”
2 comments121814: Six slaves in Guyana“An alarming rumour, meanwhile, ... spread throughout the Colonies; a rumour which, whatever of truth ...”112003: Three ferry hijackers“On this date in 2003, three men who commandeered a Havana harbor ferry and made ...”1009080706051722: Arundel Cooke and John Woodburne, despite a novel defense“On this date in 1722, Arundel Cooke and John Woodburne were hanged at Bury St. ...”04031719: Nicholas Horner, a minister's son“On this date in 1719, Nicholas Horner was hanged for his highwayman career. Actually, he was ...”
1 comments021781: John Donellan, Esq.“On this date in 1781, John Donellan was hanged for murdering his brother-in-law to secure ...”011691: Jack Withrington, highwayman“On this date in 1691, highwayman Jack Withrington hanged at Tyburn. THIS fellow was the youngest ...”Themed Set: Selections from the Newgate Calendar“The popular crime chronicle The Newgate Calendar is a rich broth these pages dare indulge ...” - Mar312001: Mariette Bosch, love triangulator1 comments30291796: Francois de Charette, Vendee rebel2 comments281997: First use of lethal injection in China“On this date in 1997, Kunming City Intermediate People's Court debuted a brand-new execution technology ...”2726251997: Pedro Medina, en flambe2 comments241945: Max Schlichting, for realism“On this date in 1945, a Hamburg coal worker was executed for an excessively realistic ...”232221201809: Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch2 comments191938: A pig, experimentally1 comments181789: Catherine Murphy, Britain's last burning at the stake“On this date in 1789, Catherine Murphy was led past the hanging bodies of her ...”
1 comments172006: Yuan Baojing, gangster capitalist2 comments16151957: Burton Abbott, reprieved too late“On this date in 1957, the phone outside San Quentin's gas chamber rang with a ...”1413D“Due to a weakness for occasional meta content, this blog actually had its 500th post ...”
1 comments121960: Hoang Le Kha, NVA cadre“On this date in 1960, the former French colony of Vietnam made its last use ...”11100908305: Feast Day of St. Philemon the Actor“This is the feast day for St. Philemon the actor, supposed to have been hurled ...”071937: Alexander Yulevich Tivel“On this date in 1937 -- probably -- one of the numberless obscurities consumed by ...”06051716: 100 Sikhs per day for a week“On this date in 1716, the Mughal Empire began disposing of 700-plus Sikh prisoners taken ...”040302012004: Ibtisam Hussein, child-murderer“Five years ago today, in Jordan's Swaqa Prison, a 24-year-old woman named Ibtisam Hussein was ...” - Feb282726251536: Jacob Hutter, Anabaptist leader“On this date in 1536, the namesake of a major Anabaptist strain "gave a great ...”
3 comments2423221943: Sophie Scholl of the White Rose2 comments21201258: Al-Musta'sim, the last Abbasid Caliph2 comments191858: Chief Leschi1 comments18171600: Giordano Bruno, freethought martyr2 comments161495: William Stanley, Lord Chamberlain“On this date in 1495, the former Lord Chamberlain lost his head on Tower Hill ...”15141312111944: Twenty-two or more Poles1 comments101956: Wilbert Coffin2 comments091929: José de León Toral, assassin of Álvaro Obregón“On this date in 1929, a Catholic militant who had gunned down the president of ...”08070605041703: 47 Ronin forced to commit seppuku“On this date in 1703, Japan's most renowned epic of bushido vengeance reached its endgame ...”031915: Veljko Cubrilovic, Danilo Ilic and Misko Jovanovic, Archduke Ferdinand's assassins“On this date in 1915, three of the Black Hand conspirators who had assassinated Archduke ...”02011968: Nguyen Van Lem9 comments - Jan31301661: Oliver Cromwell, posthumously1 comments292006: A female spy by al Qaeda“On this date three years ago -- or at least, so says the date in ...”
1 comments281953: Derek Bentley, controversially2 comments271781: Mutinous ringleaders of the New Jersey line“On this date in 1781, George Washington quelled a dangerous mutiny in his starving Continental ...”26251795: Unspecified Robespierrists“On this date in 1795, a Balzac story La Comedie humaine reaches its climax as ...”
1 comments241989: Ted Bundy, psycho killer1690 comments2322212001: Larry Keith Robison1 comments20191870: Jean-Baptiste Troppmann, mass murderer2 comments181716151895: Charles Stokes, in the heart of darkness“On January 15, 1895, a Belgian colonial official in the Congo Free State hanged Charles ...”14131759: The Tavora family1 comments121928: Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray2 comments112003: Nobody in Illinois“Six years ago today, a scandal-plagued governor of Illinois cleared out the state's death row. Republican ...”
8 comments10091980: Islamic extremists for the Grand Mosque seizure“At dawn this date in 1980, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia publicly beheaded over 60 ...”0807061634: Anna Tait, "trublit in conscience"“(Thanks to historian and witchcraft expert Louise Yeoman for this guest post on an obscure ...”05041946: The treacherous Theodore Schurch“One day after William Joyce became the last Briton put to death for treason, 27-year-old ...”031946: William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw“On this date in 1946, fascist William Joyce, famous by the nickname "Lord Haw-Haw" for ...”0201 - 2008
- Dec3130291903: Emily Swann and John Gallagher, the Wombwell murderers“On this date in 1903, a 42-year-old mother of 11 was hanged side by side ...”281894: Chief Two Sticks, Ghost Dancer“On this date in 1894, Sioux Chief Cha Nopa Uhah ("Two Sticks") was hanged in ...”271979: Hafizullah Amin1 comments261862: Asa Lewis, Confederate deserter“On this date in 1862, a 19-year-old Confederate infantryman became the tragic victim at Murfreesboro, ...”25241705: John "Half-Hanged" Smith Half-Hanged“Because we executioners are not bereft of sentiment, it is with glad season's tidings that ...”2322211855: The slave Celia, who had no right to resist“(Thanks to Caitlin at Vast Public Indifference for the guest post -ed.) In 1850, 60-year-old Robert ...”
1 comments201786: Hannah Ocuish, age 122 comments19181716151914: Regiment Mixte de Tirailleurs decimated“On this date in 1914, the French army decimated a regiment of its Tunisian soldiers ...”141903: William Ennis, wife-murdering cop“On this date in 1903, a nine-year veteran of the Brooklyn police became the first ...”13121110090807061638: The melancholy Dorothy Talby“On this date in 1683, Dorothy Talby was hanged in Boston for breaking the neck ...”
2 comments0504031990: Pastor Hossein Soodmand, apostate“On this date in 1990, Hossein Soodmand, a Muslim who had converted to Christianity in ...”
2 comments0201 - Nov301824: Henry Fauntleroy, choked on debt2 comments29281950: James Corbitt, the hangman's mate2 comments271871: Eight Cuban medical students2 comments261849: Sheikh Bouzian, defending Zaatcha2 comments251780: David Dawson and Ralph Morden, Quaker "traitors"“On this date in 1780, two unconnected Quakers were hanged for two unconnected treason convictions ...”2423222120191928: Marshall Ratliff lynched for the Santa Claus Bank Robbery“On this date in 1928, the man whose disguise christened one of the most bizarre ...”
7 comments1817161869: Hamiora Pere, Maori "traitor" to the Queen“On this date in 1869, Hamiora Pere became the only New Zealander ever executed for ...”151413121874: William Udderzook, because a picture is worth a thousand words“On this date in 1874, William Udderzook was hanged in West Chester, Pennsylvania for an ...”
1 comments11100908070605041841: Hermano Pule and his surviving followers“On this date in 1841, Apolinario de la Cruz was shot at Tayabas for leading ...”031793: Olympe de Gouges, a head of her time3 comments022001: Mona Fandey, witch doctor3 comments011615: Kate McNiven, the Witch of Monzie“(It's Samhain -- the ancient, pagan wellspring of Halloween. Thanks to Royelen for this timely ...”
3 comments - Oct31Executed Today's First Annual Report: One Year of Dying Languorously“Somehow, it's been a year since we launched last Halloween. On this ghastly occasion, it's time ...”
5 comments3029281839: Sebastien-Benoit Peytel, notwithstanding Balzac“On this date in 1839, Honore de Balzac's crusade to save a condemned man got ...”2726252423Feast Day of Boethius1 comments222120192005: Wang Binyu, desperate migrant laborer“On this date in 2005, a Chinese murderer who became the unlikely symbol of migrant ...”1831: Sejanus, captain of the Praetorian Guard1 comments171615Themed Set: Belles Epoque“In three wars that would define modern Europe, three women of different character and class ...”14131660: Major-General Thomas Harrison, the first of the regicides“On this date in 1660, the restored House of Stuart began a week of bloody ...”12111936: Antonio José, forgotten composer“On this date in 1936, the Spanish composer Antonio José was shot by Falangists during ...”
1 comments101911: Several revolutionaries on Double Ten Day“On the tenth day of the tenth month -- Double Ten Day, as it has ...”091967: Ernesto "Che" Guevara10 comments081997: Ricky Lee Green“On this date in 1997, serial killer Ricky Lee Green died by lethal injection in ...”
18 comments0706052007: A factory manager in a packed stadium“Last year on this day, six people were reportedly trampled to death when a massive ...”
1 comments041621: Not Katharina Kepler, thanks to her son Johannes“On October 4, 1621, the Duke of Württemberg declared Katharina Kepler free of a witchcraft ...”030201 - Sep3029281402: False Olaf“On this date in 1402, a Prussian commoner was put to death on the road ...”271976: Three terrorists in Syria“On this date in 1976, three Abu Nidal terrorists were hanged before the Hotel Semiramis ...”
1 comments262524231994: Johannes van Damme, heroin smuggler2 comments222120Themed Set: Counterrevolution“As the Enlightenment gave way to the West's great revolutionary age in the late 18th ...”1918171938: Nikolai Kondratiev, purged economist1 comments16151413121860: (William) Walker, Nicaragua Ranger1 comments1110091990: Samuel K. Doe“On this date in 1990, deposed Liberian strongman Samuel Kanyon Doe was tortured and summarily ...”
3 comments081642: Thomas Granger and the beasts he lay with“On this date in 1642, a teenager was hanged in the Plymouth colony for bestiality ...”071943: 186 prisoners at Plotzensee Prison“As dark fell on the evening of September 7, 1943, a mass execution of 186 ...”060504032003: Paul Hill, anti-abortion martyr“Five years ago today, minister Paul Hill was put to death by lethal injection for ...”
11 comments021724: Half-Hangit Maggie Dickson5 commentsThemed Set: Judging Abortion“Abortion and the death penalty have never struck the Headsman as especially similar matters, but ...”
1 comments011538: Cratwell, a hangman“This yere, the first daye of September, beinge Sondaye, at Clerkenwell, where the wrestlinge is ...” - Aug311593: Pierre Barrière, undeterringly“On this date in 1593, a would-be assassin of France's King Henri IV was broken ...”3029281807: James McLean, twice“On this date in 1807, James McLean survived one hanging but not a second at ...”
1 comments271979: Eleven by a Firing Squad in Iran1 comments26251945: John Birch, Society man4 comments241993: Ruben Cantu, an innocent child?4 comments2322212019181716151963: Henry John Burnett, Scotland's last hanging“On this date in 1963, the executioner paid his last call to Scotland with the ...”1413Themed Set: At the End of the Rope“Every entry on this blog is, of course, an ending of a sort. But some endings ...”121833: Captain Henry Nicholas Nicholls, sodomite“On this date in 1833, Captain Henry Nicholas Nicholls was hanged in London for sodomy. Sodomy ...”
3 comments111978: Antonina Makarova, Nazi executioner3 comments10091993: Mohamed Mustafa Tabet, serial rapist with a badge“On this date in 1993, the police chief of Casablanca was shot in Kenitra Central ...”081944: Eight July 20 plotters8 comments071777: A British spy, by Israel Putnam“On this date in 1777, a general of the American Revolution laconically asserted his prerogatives ...”06051676: Malin Matsdotter and Anna Simonsdotter, ending a witch hunt“On this date in 1676, two starkly contrasting women were executed for sorcery in Stockholm. Anna ...”
1 comments04031916: Sir Roger Casement2 comments0201 - Jul3130291747: Alexander Blackwell, who left them smiling“On this date in 1747,* the Swedes beheaded Scottish-born adventurer Alexander Blackwell for meddling with ...”
1 comments28271794: The last cart of the Terror, not including the Marquis de Sade“July 27th, 1794 -- the 9th of Thermidor, year II -- is inscribed in history ...”2625241794: Not Thomas Paine“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to ...”23222120191824: Alexander Pearce, cannibal convict“On this date in 1824, Irish convict Alexander Pearce received the Catholic last rites and ...”18171918: Tsar Nicholas II and his family“In the small hours after midnight on the night of July 16-17 90 years ago, ...”1615141989: Horace Franklin Dunkins, Jr., "just hope that he was not conscious"“Minutes after midnight this date in 1989, Alabama's executioners electrocuted a mentally retarded murderer. ...”
6 comments13121726: William Fly, unrepentant pirate“On this date in 1726, an obscure boatswain who had mutinied for the liberty of ...”Themed Set: Embarrassed Executioners“The human body can be a hardy creature, resistant to the best-calculated plans to kill ...”11472: Anthemius, twilight emperor of Rome“On this date in 472, one of the last "twilight emperors" of the western Roman ...”10091850: The Bab, Prophet of Baha'i“On this date in 1850, a Persian merchant who claimed to be the Islamic messiah ...”080706050403021822: The audacious Denmark Vesey“On this date in 1822, white South Carolinians hanged the most terrifying slave insurrectionary who ...”01 - Jun30292000: Two kidnappers, televised by Guatemala3 comments28271950: Milada Horáková, democrat and feminist2 comments261979: Two former dictators of Ghana with four of their aides“On this date in 1979, the putschist government of Ghana shot former military rulers Frederick ...”252423Unspecified Year: Justine Moritz, Frankenstein family servant“Around this date in the unspecified 18th-century year of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the titular family's ...”
2 comments221711: Ifranj Ahmad, Janissary“On this date in 1711, a Janissary captain in Ottoman Egypt was beheaded in Cairo ...”211621: Bohemia's "Day of Blood"1 comments201864: William Johnson, a bad example4 comments19181975: Prince Faisal ibn Musa'id, royal assassin“On this date in 1975, a Saudi prince knelt in the public square before Riyadh's ...”171747: Mary Allen and Henry Simms, Gallows Lovers“(Thanks to Laura James of CLEWS, one of the best crime blogs going, for this ...”1615141312112001: Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City bomber2 comments1009081934: Three inept murderers (with a fourth to come)“On this date in 1934, three members of a quartet that had -- eventually, with ...”0706050403021966: Evariste Kimba and three other "plotters" against Mobutu“On this date in 1966, the Congo's last civilian Prime Minister and three former cabinet ...”011962: Adolf Eichmann“On this date in 1962, the architect of the Final Solution received such justice as ...” - May311718: John "Jack Ketch" Price, former hangman“On this date in 1718, the former common hangman got a taste of his own ...”30291593: John Penry, Shakespeare's midwife?2 comments2827261923: Albert Leo Schlageter, Nazi martyr1 comments251979: John Spenkelink, the harbinger3 comments241917: Dr. Arthur Waite, the Playboy Poisoner“On this date in 1917, a 29-year-old former dentist took a seat in Sing Sing's ...”23222120191536: Anne Boleyn1 comments182004: Case Study: Kelsey Patterson4 comments1716151916: Jesse Washington lynched after conviction29 comments1413121110091628: Johan Bernhard Reichardt, a nine-year-old witch“On this date in 1628, a prepubescent boy went to the stake at Würzburg, the ...”08072002: Ahmed Sultan and Mohammad Humayun, who murdered Meena“On this date in 2002, the killers of one of Afghanistan's most noted feminists were ...”06051725: Leendert Hasenbosch cast away1 comments04030201
- Apr3029281945: Benito Mussolini, his mistress, and his aides“On this date in 1945, Communist partisans shot Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci ...”271733: William Gordon, almost cheating death“On this date in 1733, English highwayman William Gordon was hanged at Tyburn (along with ...”261478: Pazzi Conspiracy attempted ... and suppressed“On this date in 1478, a coup d'etat against the Medici family in Florence was ...”251792: Nicolas Pelletier, Madame Guillotine's first kiss“On this date in 1792 -- a surprisingly late date, just nine months before the ...”24232221201918171975: Long Boret, on Day One“On this date in 1975, Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge -- Day One, ...”16151947: Fernand de Brinon, Vichy minister with a Jewish wife“On this date in 1947, former Vichy Secretary of State Comte Fernand de Brinon was ...”
1 comments141312111670: Major Thomas Weir, a Puritan with a double life“On this date in 1670, a 70-year-old upstanding Edinburgher went to the stake for confessing ...”
1 comments101905: Fou Tchou-Li, by a thousand cuts5 comments091975: Eight South Korean pro-democracy activists“At dawn on this date in 1975, the South Korean dictatorship hanged eight pro-democracy activists, ...”08072007: Du'a Khalil Aswad, honor killing victim“On or about this date one year ago, a 17-year-old Kurdish Yazidi (alternatively, Yezidi) girl ...”
7 comments0605041979: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan“In the small hours of the morning this date, the Pakistani military junta hanged former ...”03021582: John Payne, snitched out“On this date in 1582, the Jesuit priest John Payne suffered drawing and quartering at ...”01 - Mar313029282726922: Mansur al-Hallaj, Sufi mystic“On this date in 922, Sufi Mansur al-Hallaj was put to a torturous end in ...”25242322211556: Thomas Cranmer, architect of Anglicanism“[audio:John_Merbecke_Creed.mp3] (Part of John Merbecke's plainsong rendition of the Book of Common Prayer, as performed by ...”
1 comments2019181741: Jenny Diver, a Bobby Darin lyric?2 comments171915: Four French Corporals, for cowardice2 comments161514131998: Bahram Khan, by his victim's brother“Ten years ago today, in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, 30,000 people witnessed an alleged murderer shot to ...”12111009081845: An Italian highwayman, as witnessed by Dickens“On this date in 1846, Charles Dickens witnessed a man beheaded in Rome for robbery ...”070605041388: Thomas Usk, leaving "The Testament of Love"“On this date in 1388, royal retainer Thomas Usk was convicted in a one-day trial ...”Themed Set: The Written Word“Capital punishment's limitless literary potential has drawn the written word to it since time immemorial. We ...”03022005: Han Bok-nam, whose death was illicitly filmed“On this date in 2005, at an outdoor trial near Yuson, North Korea, Han Bok-nam ...”01 - Feb2928271902: Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock, "scapegoats for Empire"“On this date in 1902, two Australian officers were shot in virtual secrecy at Pretoria ...”
2 comments26251879: Charles Peace, Victorian cat burglar3 comments24231838: Andrea Rondola but not Peppino“On this date in 1838, in The Count of Monte Cristo, the title character witnesses ...”222120191942: Frank Abbandando and Harry Maione, mob hitmen“On this date in 1942, mobsters Frank Abbandando and Harry Maione were electrocuted in New ...”
1 comments181716151839: Five Patriotes Canadiens, leaders of the Lower Canada Rebellion“On this date in 1839, five French-Canadian Patriotes were hanged at Montreal's Pied-du-Courant Prison for ...”
1 comments14131942: Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan, Japanese spy“On this date in 1942, with the British about to abandon Singapore to the Japanese, ...”
1 comments1211101905: Samuel McCue, mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia“On this date in 1905, the former mayor of Charlottesville, Va., was hanged in the ...”
1 comments09081587: Mary, Queen of Scots4 comments071868: Susan, a 13-year-old“On this date in 1868, an African-American girl of whom little is known beyond the ...”
3 comments0605041738: Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, "Jud Süß"“On this date in 1738, the Jewish banker Joseph Suss Oppenheimer was hanged in a ...”
1 comments03021512: Hatuey, defied Spanish colonization3 comments01 - Jan31301649: Charles I3 comments29Themed Set: The English Reformation2 comments281853: Nicholas Saul and William Howlett, teenage New York gangsters“On this date in 1853, two chiefs of the New York street gang Daybreak Boys ...”271142: Yue Fei, paragon of loyalty“On this date in 1142, the great Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the ...”
1 comments26251663: Nathaniel Greensmith, Rebecca Greensmith and possibly Mary Barnes, Connecticut "witches"“On this date in 1663,* a husband and wife were hanged for witchcraft in colonial ...”
4 comments241992: Ricky Ray Rector, "a date which ought to live in infamy for the Democratic Party"“(Thanks to David Elliot at Abolish the Death Penalty for the guest post -ed.) The strange ...”
8 comments23221963: Ralph Hudson, the last man executed in New Jersey“On this date in 1963, Ralph Hudson was electrocuted in New Jersey for stabbing to ...”
1 comments211793: Louis XVI2 comments201918171977: Gary Gilmore“On this date in 1977, Gary Gilmore uttered the last words "Let's do it" and ...”
5 comments161936: Albert Fish2 comments15Themed Set: The Spectacle of Private Execution in America“The elimination of public executions in America might have aimed at public decorum, but it ...”142005: Nguyen Van Van“On this date in 2005, Nguyen Van Van, the onetime coach of Vietnam's national taekwondo ...”131871: Kawakami Gensai1 comments12111944: Galeazzo Ciano and four other Italian Fascists“On this date in 1944, Benito Mussolini had his son-in-law, the politician Galeazzo Ciano, shot ...”
8 comments101775: Yemelyan Pugachev3 comments091923: Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters10 comments081697: Thomas Aikenhead“On this date in 1697, Scottish medical student Thomas Aikenhead was hanged on the road ...”072007: 23 Shia hostages“One year ago today, Sunni gunmen avenged the execution of Saddam Hussein by hanging 23 ...”061945: Josefa Llanes Escoda2 comments0504838: Babak Khorramdin“On this date in 838, Babak Khorramdin was chopped to pieces for his 20-year rebellion ...”032002: Sani Yakubu“On this date in 2002, a young murderer from the northern Nigerian state of Katsina ...”02012002: 'Ali bin Hittan bin Sa'id, Muhammad bin Suleyman bin Muhammad, and Muhammad bin Khalil bin 'Abdullah“On this date in 2002, three homosexual men were beheaded with a sword in the ...”
1 comments - 2007
- Dec31302006: Saddam Hussein“One year ago today, Saddam Hussein was hanged in "the hell that is Iraq" -- ...”
2 comments291874: John Murphy“On this date in 1874, John Murphy was publicly hanged at the foot of Carson ...”28271739: Penelope Kenny and Sarah Simpson“On this date in 1739, Penelope Kenny and Sarah Simpson were publicly hanged in colonial ...”26Themed Set: The Spectacle of Public Hanging in America“Inherited from England, the ceremony and theater of public hangings in the youthful United States ...”
1 comments251989: Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu“On this date in 1989, 71-year-old dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were condemned ...”241684: Baillie of Jerviswood“On this date in 1684, the Scottish patriot Baillie of Jerviswood was convicted of treason ...”23221849: Not Fyodor Dostoyevsky2 comments211995: Kimura Shujish“On this date in 1995, Kimura Shuji was hanged in Japan. It remains the norm in ...”201882: Guglielmo Oberdan1 comments191948: Amir Sjarifuddin“On this date in 1948, leftist former Indonesian Prime Minister Amir Sjarifuddin was summarily executed ...”18171927: Rajendra Lahiri“On this date in 1927, Bengali revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri was hanged by the British colonial ...”161594: Alison Balfour“On this date in 1594, Alison Balfour was burned as a witch on the strength ...”15401 B.C.E.: Clearchus of Sparta“Around this time in the late autumn or early winter some weeks following the Battle ...”14132006: Angel Diaz6 comments1211101937: Teido Kunizaki“On this date in 1937, Japanese intellectual Teido Kunizaki was shot as a "spy of ...”091793: Sydney Carton posing as Charles Darnay“On an unspecified date in December 1793 is set one of literature's immortal execution scenes, ...”
1 comments08070641 B.C.E.: Arsinoe IV, Cleopatra's sister2 comments050403022005: Van Tuong Nguyen“On this date in 2005, Australian national Van Tuong Nguyen was hanged in Singapore's Changi ...”01 - Nov301944: Lilo Gloeden, Erich Gloeden and Elisabeth Kuznitzky“On this date in 1944, Berlin housewife Elisabeth "Lilo" Gloeden was beheaded with an axe ...”291941: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya2 commentsThemed Set: Women Against Fascism1 comments281922: Six Greek former ministers of state1 comments271987: Jacek Lazar condemned“On this date in 1987, according to the sentence read to him in the climactic ...”
2 comments261919: Felipe Angeles1 comments25Feast Day of St. Catherine of the Wheel2 comments241740: Not William Duell“On this date in 1740, five criminals were hanged at Tyburn. Sixteen-year-old William Duell was among ...”231910: Hawley Harvey Crippen3 comments221799: Judith van Dorth1 comments211944: An unknown Allied airman“On this date in 1944, in the midst of a worldwide conflagration that would claim ...”
2 comments20191915: Joe Hill3 comments18171720: Captain John "Calico Jack" Rackham“On this date in 1720, the pirate captain "Calico Jack" Rackham was hanged together with ...”
3 comments161491: Eight current and converted Jews at an auto de fe“On this date in 1491, the murder of the Holy Child of La Guardia was ...”
1 comments151949: Nathuram Godse, Gandhi's assassin3 comments141226: Frederick of Isenberg“On this date in 1226, Count -- although he had been stripped of this title ...”
1 comments131002: St. Brice's Day Massacre1 comments121755: Rowley Hanson“On this date in 1755, a young soldier named Rowley Hanson was hanged at Tyburn. Though ...”
2 comments111831: Nat Turner“On this date in 1831, the slave Nat -- remembered to history as Nat Turner ...”
4 comments101995: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine3 comments091911: Charles Justice“On this date in 1911, Charles Justice was electrocuted by the State of Ohio. It was ...”
2 comments081520: Stockholm Bloodbath1 comments071944: Richard Sorge and Hotsumi Ozaki2 comments061914: Carl Hans Lody1 comments051925: Sidney Reilly4 comments041936: Edgar André2 comments03021963: Ngo Dinh Diem2 comments011920: Kevin Barry2 comments - Oct3115Welcome to ExecutedToday.com“Coming Halloween 2007! Executed Today is a blog of history, sociology, biography, criminology, law, and kismet ...”
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