Thomas Thomasen Bisp, an adulterer who fatally poisoned his wife after he got the hots for his maid, became on this date in 1822 the last person executed in the North Jutland city of Hjørring.
Times being what they were, the torture-spectacle parts of the sentence — like having his offending hand struck off — were remitted; all things equal, we assume that Bisp would have best preferred to keep the one extremity he was still required to sacrifice.
This minor milestone is memorable to visitors of the Vendsyssel Historial Museum, where reposes the killer’s grisly beheaded skull courtesy of its 1900 accidental discovery in the course of some road work.
On this day..
- 1881: Albert and Charles Talbott, bad sons
- 1991: Andrew Lee Jones, the last electrocuted in Louisiana
- 1587: George Gaspar, an English heretic in the Inquisition
- 1916: Arthur Grove Earp, shellshocked
- 1799: Elizabeth Lavender, teenage Fairlight infanticide
- 1995: 43 armed robbers
- 1979: Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party coup
- 1789: Joseph-Francois Foulon, corrupt financier, lynched
- 1635: Domingos Fernandes Calabar, traitor?
- 1501: Antonio Rinaldeschi, bad gambler
- 1209: Massacre of Beziers, "kill them all, let God sort them out"
- 1794: Three generations of Noailles women, but not the Marquise de Lafayette
- Themed Set: Thermidor