On this date in 1793, Walter Clark was executed for burglary at Morpeth, with one Margaret Dunn. Clark rates a mention in the spirit of the apple not falling far from the tree: a year before Clark’s conviction and hanging, his two daughters Jane and Eleanor had suffered the same fate with William Winters for a murder committed just up the road from Morpeth.
On this day..
- 1954: Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek Communist
- 2018: Carey Dean Moore
- 1765: Andrew Oliver lynched in effigy to the Liberty Tree
- 1944: Lucien Natanson
- 1878: Ivan Kovalsky, nihilist martyr
- 1679: John King and John Kid, Covenanters
- 1480: The Martyrs of Otranto
- 1820: Amasa Fuller, the Indiana hero
- 1949: Husni al-Za'im, Syrian president
- 1860: John Moyse, the Private of the Buffs
- 2004: Dhananjoy Chatterjee, the last hanged in India ... for now
- 1936: Rainey Bethea, America's last public hanging