The last of 15 women executed in Turkey, Kariye Partici, hanged on this date in 1971.
Partici (German Wikipedia link, but most all of the few other sources available online are in Turkish) with her brother forced a woman named Aysel Malseven to swallow the insecticide Folidol in order to rob her of some jewelry.
Turkey had not conducted executions for seven years prior to the March 1971 military coup. The new regime’s ready resort to the rope for mundane civilian murders foreshadowed its readiness to employ the same methods to crush political resistance.
On this day..
- 1645: Fourteen Essex witches
- 1402: Fang Xiaoru, of the ten agnates
- 1242: William de Marisco, pirate knight
- 1946: The Moore's Ford Bridge lynchings
- 1729: James Cluff, on appeal
- 1785: John Winship, family planner
- Feast Day of St. James the Greater
- 1831: Julien Sorel, in The Red and the Black
- 1844: The Bandiera brothers
- 1570: Ivan Viskovaty among hundreds on Red Square during the Oprichnina
- 1826: The Decembrists
- 1794: Andre Chenier, poet