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1791: George Dingler, proved guilty

Posted on 19 September, 2019 by Headsman

“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

Possibly related executions:

  • 1790: Thomas Bird, the first federal execution under the U.S. constitution
  • 1715: Margaret Gaulacher, Cotton Mather ignorer
  • 1816: John Allen and John Penny, poachers
  • 1785: John Winship, family planner
  • 1721: Christiana Bell
  • 1767: Thomas Nicholson, hung in chains
  • 1735: Alice Riley, Savannah ghost
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