On this date in 1911, Charles Justice was electrocuted by the State of Ohio.
It was an ironic end, since when serving an earlier stint in the state penitentiary shortly after the electric chair was introduced, Justice had hit upon the idea of metal clamps in place of leather straps to more securely hold down the chair’s clientele and avoid burnt flesh.
The improvement, duly implemented, was there awaiting its creator.
On this day..
- 1801: Hyacinth Moise, Haitian Revolution general
- 1716: Maria of Curacao, slave rebel
- 1773: Eva Faschaunerin, the last tortured in Austria
- 1641: Maren Splids, Jutland witch
- 1940: Julian Zugazagoitia, Minister of the Interior to republican Spain
- 1945: Charles Ford Silliman, suicide pact?
- 2011: Luo Yaping, "land granny"
- 1942: Eddie Leonski, the Brownout Strangler
- 1848: Robert Blum, German democrat
- 1842: Stephen Brennan, desperate bushranger
- Themed Set: Bushrangers
- 1610: Blessed George Napier
- 1944: Georges Suarez, collaborationist editor
- 2008: The Bali Bombers