Themed Set: The “Ex” Stands for “Extrajudicial”
November 19th, 2008 Headsman
Somewhere in the foggy marches that stretch between a ceremonial Tyburn hanging and the many guises of lethal collective violence in the workaday world dwells the editorial discretion of Executed Today, keeping a lonely vigil at a forgotten customs-post.
What, after all, is an execution?
This site has dallied before, and will dally again, with those border cases — summary executions and borderline executions.
Joined thematically as near-executions, these next three days are of themselves as different from one another as three different killings can be … suggesting the topical breadth spanned by the ultimate sanction.
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Nov. 19: Marshall Ratliff lynched for the Santa Claus bank robbery
Nov. 20: Aper, by the Emperor Diocletian
Nov. 21: Partisans by the Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger
On this day..
- 2010: Li Haito, reliquarian - 2019
- 1840: Zachariah Freeman - 2018
- Feast Day of St. Barlaam - 2017
- 1659: William Lamport, the real Zorro? - 2016
- 1784: Richard Barrick, Massachusetts highwayman - 2015
- 1895: Jesus Vialpando and Feliciano Chavez, desperados - 2014
- 1720: Edward Hunt, the first counterfeiter executed in colonial Pennsylvania - 2013
- 1929: Myles Fukunaga - 2012
- c. 865: Ragnar Lodbrok, Viking raider - 2011
- Themed Set: Vikings - 2011
- 1945: Three German war criminals - 2010
- 2002: Craig Neil Ogan, drug war informant - 2009
- 1928: Marshall Ratliff lynched for the Santa Claus Bank Robbery - 2008
- 1915: Joe Hill - 2007
Entry Filed under: Themed Sets
ah, but like crowds beneath the gallows
patient, unruly
we will wait
bide our time until