“every man is presumed to be innocent till proved guilty …”

-Whig barrister William Garrow, coining a soon-to-become-foundational juridical catchphrase in his unsuccessful defense of wife-murderer George Dingler, who was hanged at Tyburn on 19 September 1791

On this day..

• 1829: Helena Katarina Löv
• 1442: Nguyen Trai
• 2008: Kedisaletse Tsobane
• 1719: Frans Anneessens, Brussels guildmaster
• 1851: Aaron Stookey, clemency denied
• 1946: Ernst Lohmeyer, theologian
• 1729: Jephthah Big, ineffective extortionist
• 2011: Abdul Hamid Bin Hussain Bin Moustafa al-Fakki, sorcerer
• 1902: Fred Hardy, the first hanged in Alaska
• 1902: Ernest Loveswar, the last hanging in Meade County
• 1692: Giles Corey, "more weight!"
• 46 B.C.E.: Vercingetorix the Gaul