(cc) image from blmiers2.
Vast and sparsely-populated Alaska doesn’t have many executions in its history and hasn’t had the death penalty on the books since 1957.
True to its weird reputation, though, the few in its register include some offbeat selections — like our next two days’.
On this day..
- 1974: Marc Filloux and Manivanh, journalists
- 1683: John Nisbet the Younger
- 2004: Fabrizio Quattrocchi, "I'll show you how an Italian dies!"
- 2015: Siti Zainab
- 1725: Maria Romberg, her lover, her maid, and her witch
- 1322: Bartholomew de Badlesmere
- 1922: George Hornsby
- 1950: Eugene LaMoore, the last hanged in Alaska
- 1736: Andrew Wilson, in the Heart of Midlothian
- 1647: Domenica Gratiadei and her coven of witches
- 1965: Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, In Cold Blood subjects
- 1865: Not George S.E. Vaughn
- 1682: Avvakum Petrov, Old Believer