“I was here at the last execution, as free as any one of you, and little thought of this my unhappy fate. God grant you all more grace than I have had.”
-Last words of burglar John Ives, hanged with six other felons at Tyburn on June 6, 1764.
On this day..
- 1895: John Eisenminger, forgiven
- 1900: Guzeppi Micallef, Maltese felon
- 1730: Sally Bassett, Bermuda slave
- 1971: Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, Vietnam War photojournalists
- 1940: 32 innocent Poles
- 1962: Henry Adolph Busch, Psycho
- 1884: Charles Henry, iced in the Arctic
- 1662: Potter, bugger
- 1879: John Blan, panicked
- 1671: Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel
- 1832: Not Javert, spared by Jean Valjean
- 1997: Henry Francis Hays, whose crime cost the Klan