No, not that Seven of Nine. We have no further details on offer about these poor souls, but we thought the assortment of crimes — a mother for murdering her bastard child; a highwayman; an overseer for whipping a slave to death — and the editorial rant about the governor‘s abus’d Clemency, made for a colorful slice of life.
(Virginia Gazette, Nov. 23, 1739.)
On this day..
- 1789: Ann Davis, the first woman hanged at Sydney Cove - 2019
- 1763: Charles Brown, security consultant - 2018
- 1901: Willie Louw, Boer commando - 2017
- 1910: Johan Alfred Ander, the last executed in Sweden - 2016
- 1825: Angelo Targhini and Leonidas Montanari, carbonari - 2015
- Feast of St. Clement - 2014
- 1955: Elli Barczatis and Karl Laurenz, East Berlin spies - 2013
- 1867: The Manchester Martyrs - 2011
- 1499: Perkin Warbeck, Princes in the Tower pretender - 2010
- 1974: Black Saturday in Ethiopia - 2009
- 1927: Father Miguel Pro, "Viva Cristo Rey!" - 2008
- 1910: Hawley Harvey Crippen - 2007
But they actually used the word “murder” to describe the killing of the slave.
I suspect “Col. Braxton” was a man of some pull, and was majorly peeved to have had his property destroyed [I just threw up in my mouth as I typed that]
They actually hanged a guy for killing a slave?!