On August 6, 1788, “John and Robert Winter, the father and son, were executed at Morpeth, pursuant to their sentence, for breaking open the house of William Charlton, esq., of Hesleyside. As they had lived for many years in a course of the most daring and shameless villainy, at their death, they testified the most brutal want of feeling, fear, or compunction.”
On this day..
- 1915: A day in the death penalty (and lynch law) around the U.S.
- 1819: Nathan Foster, wife-killer and patriot-killer
- 1718: Purry Moll and Elizabeth Cave
- 1859: Ratu Mara Kapaiwai, Fiji warrior
- 2013: Nguyen Anh Tuan, Vietnam's first lethal injection
- 1883: James Burton, William Marwood's last
- Corpses Strewn: All in the Family
- 1936: Josep Sunyol, FC Barcelona President
- 1759: Eugene Aram, philologist
- 1942: Janusz Korczak and his orphans
- 1795: Pomp, a Negro
- 1628: Johannes Junius "will never see you more"
- 1890: William Kemmler, only in America