On this date in 1944, the fascist frogman unit Decima Mas Flottiglia MAS (English Wikipedia link | Italian) executed and publicly gibbeted the partisan Ferruccio Nazionale in Ivrea.
The placard around his neck claims the hanged man “made an armed attack on the Decima.”
The square where he’s hanging in these images is today named in his honor — Piazza Ferruccio Nazionale.
On this day..
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- 1880: A day in the death penalty around the U.S.
- 1835: Vincent, by popular demand
- 1858: Isaac Wood
- 1861: Robert Thomas Palin, under Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7
- 1920: Lee Monroe Betterton, three strikes and you're out
- 1941: Not Shaike Iwensky, "standing in line to be killed"
- 1943: Not Halina Birenbaum, thanks to a shortage of gas
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- 1850: The Bab, Prophet of Baha'i