“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