Joseph Sollis was executed in North Carolina on this date in 1827 for murder. It didn’t go so well, apparently leading a regular gawker to pierce the spectacle’s fourth wall and get involved in the action himself.
On this day..
- 1663: Gustav Skytte, pirate - 2020
- 1877: James Singleton, Beeville character - 2019
- 1896: Carl Feigenbaum, the Ripper abroad? - 2017
- 1803: Michael Ely, personator - 2016
- 1889: The first executions in French-occupied Tunis - 2015
- 1883: Henry De Bosnys, bane of Elizabeths - 2014
- 1940: Wilhelm Kusserow, Jehovah's Witness - 2013
- 1945: German soldiers for cowardice - 2012
- 1649: Robert Lockyer, Leveller - 2011
- 1792: Jacob Johan Anckarström, assassin of Gustav III - 2010
- 1995: Nie Shubin. Oops. - 2009
- 1733: William Gordon, almost cheating death - 2008