“More solemnity was perhaps never observed at any execution before” the hanging this date in 1789 of William Mooney Fitzgerald and John Clark in St. John, New Brunswick.
The fate of these two Irish career criminals is one of many arresting stories told on the Early American Crime blog, whose entry (and complementary podcast) this site could hardly improve upon.
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On this day..
- 1953: Carl Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady
- 1591: Marigje Arriens
- 2009: Gerald Dube, from Cell 10
- 1942: Six aspiring escapees from Dulag-205
- 1946: One sex killer and four POW camp murderers
- 1939: Fifty-six Poles shot in retaliation at Bochnia
- 1894: John Cronin, by an automated gallows
- 1691: Eleven at Tyburn
- 1529: Desle la Mansenee in the Luxeuil Trial
- 1609: Vicente Turixi, King of the Moriscos
- 1878: John Kehoe, king and last of the Molly Maguires
- 1838: Seven perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre