Antonio Lavagnini, impiccato e squartato in Zagarola li 5 febbraio 1803, per aver grassato un uomo avendogli levato 27 paoli.
Antonio Lavagnini hanged and quartered in Zagarola February 5, 1803, for having robbed a man of 27 paoli.
-From the journal of prolific Italian executioner Mastro Titta.
On this day..
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- 1892: A day in the death penalty around Kentucky
- 1717: Anna Maria Wagemann, the last witch burned at Fürfeld
- 1886: Dennis Dilda
- 1601: Starina Novak, hajduk
- 1999: Leo Echegaray, by lethal injection in the Philippines
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- 1862: Samuel Calhoun, antebellum serial killer
- 1860: John Guthrie, antislavery horse thief
- Feast Day of St. Agatha
- 1945: Denise Bloch, Lilian Rolfe and Violette Szabo
- 1894: Auguste Vaillant, bomb-throwing anarchist
- 1597: The 26 Martyrs of Japan, for God and trade routes