A year ago today, Dok Macuei Marer was executed by hanging at Wau Prison in South Sudan.

Dok assassinated tribal chief Chut Dhuol in August 2014, in a possible revenge killing for the previous murder of another chief. There is very little information about this whole affair readily accesible online, a circumstance consistent with the sketchy state of information about the death penalty in the world’s newest state. (Executed Today itself predates South Sudanese independence by four years.)

On this day..

• 1751: Thomas Quin, Joseph Dowdell, Thomas Talbot, and five others at Tyburn
• 1771: Daskalogiannis
• 1581: Christman Genipperteinga
• 2008: Tsutomu Miyazaki, the Nerd Cult Killer
• 1660: Jan Quisthout van der Linde condemned to drown in New Amsterdam
• 1800: Suleiman al-Halabi, assassin of General Kleber
• 1930: 13 Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang cadres, for the Yen Bai mutiny
• 1842: Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly, Great Game diplomats
• 1825: Isaac, Israel, and Nelson Thayer, in Buffalo's only public hanging
• 1939: Eugen Weidmann, the last public beheading in France
• 1795: The last Montagnards
• 1747: Mary Allen and Henry Simms, Gallows Lovers