The young maid Adriana Bouwman was guillotined on this date in 1813 for theft and arson; it was the second and last use of that notorious machine in The Hague, during the three years that the Netherlands was directly incorporated into Napoleon’s First Empire.
Arijaantje Apersdr Bouman was condemned for robbing and torching a farmhouse where she worked as a domestic. She was four months shy of her 20th birthday when beheaded.
On this day..
- 2012: Michael Selsor
- 1928: Xiang Jingyu, Communist
- 1691: William Macqueen, the Irish Teague
- 1942: Robert "Rattlesnake" James, the last man hanged by California
- 2013: Steven T. Smith
- 1945: Charlotte Rebhun, Righteous Gentile
- 1897: John Gibson, under Jim Crow
- 1861: Anton Petrov, of Bezdna
- 1830: The slave Jerry, the last American execution by burning?
- 2009: Delara Darabi, "Oh mother, I can see the noose"
- 1820: The Cato Street Conspirators
- 1461: James Butler, War of the Roses casualty