1803: Jillis Bruggeman, the last executed for sodomy in the Netherlands
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The last person executed in the Netherlands for homosexuality was Jillis Bruggeman, on March 9, 1803.
Bruggeman ‘s long career in “the horrible sin of sodomy” — for which he had been paying blackmail to one former partner for many years before a different confidante betrayed him — so shocked the court that the evidence of his activities was sequestered in a special pouch. He was flogged and hanged at the grand market of the southern city Schiedam.
There’s an annual Jillis Bruggeman Medal awarded to a someone who has made a signal contribution to defending LGBTQ people.
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Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Execution,Hanged,Homosexuals,Milestones,Netherlands,Public Executions,Sex,Torture
Tags: 1800s, 1803, jillis bruggeman, march 9, schiedam
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