On this date in 1573, the Hanseatic city of Hamburg beheaded the Seeräuber Hans von Erschausen with his crew, leaving naught but a vast row of pike-mounted heads and some excellent woodcuts.
On this day..
- 1664: Sawny Douglas, Chevy Chaser
- 1731: Catherine Bevan, burned alive in Delaware
- 1941: Viggo Hasteen and Rolf Wickstrom, for the Milk Strike
- 1622: Charles Spinola, martyr in Japan
- 1893: Two women lynched in Quincy, Mississippi
- 1990: Charles Coleman, the first lethal injection in Oklahoma
- 1801: Jason Fairbanks, lackadaisical escapee
- 1943: Phillip Coleman, the last man hung in Montana
- 1951: Eliseo Mares, "silently and horribly"
- 1661: Kaj Lykke, in effigy
- Themed Set: Executions in Effigy
- 1852: John and Jane Williams, slaves
- 1977: Hamida Djandoubi, Madame Guillotine's last kiss