Joseph Sollis was executed in North Carolina on this date in 1827 for murder. It didn’t go so well, apparently leading a regular gawker to pierce the spectacle’s fourth wall and get involved in the action himself.
On this day..
- 1663: Gustav Skytte, pirate
- 1877: James Singleton, Beeville character
- 1896: Carl Feigenbaum, the Ripper abroad?
- 1803: Michael Ely, personator
- 1889: The first executions in French-occupied Tunis
- 1883: Henry De Bosnys, bane of Elizabeths
- 1940: Wilhelm Kusserow, Jehovah's Witness
- 1945: German soldiers for cowardice
- 1649: Robert Lockyer, Leveller
- 1792: Jacob Johan Anckarström, assassin of Gustav III
- 1995: Nie Shubin. Oops.
- 1733: William Gordon, almost cheating death