On this date in 1941, Ivan Sullivan was hanged at Fort Madison, Iowa — in a prison yard near where he’d committed his crime. Sullivan was lumbered with a 30-year sentence for robbery and kidn...
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At a hanging-day at Tyburn on this date in 1738, 11 men (no women) were executed en masse. Nine committed different varieties of malappropriation: burglaries, highway robberies, horse-thefts, eve...
https://www.executedtoday.com/2020/11/08/1738-george-whalley-and-dean-briant-wife-murderers/
Pedro María Ñancúpel Alarcón, famiiarly nicknamed “the pirate Ñancúpel”, was shot on this date in 1888 for his long campaign of banditry in Chile’s Guaitecas Islands. He had once been...
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On this date in 1959, Guenther Podola became the last man hanged in Great Britain for killing a police officer. A German emigre, Podola had been deported from Canada for committing a series of th...
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From the Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, N.J.), Nov. 5, 1912: Two hours after he had eaten a hearty supper and sat in his cell waiting for the end to come, Alexander Kompovic, the ol...
https://www.executedtoday.com/2020/11/04/1912-alexander-kompovic-nurderer/
On this date in 1904, Wang Weiqin, an official who killed two families, was put to death in Beijing by lingchi (slow slicing, or death by a thousand cuts). This execution is distinguished by its ...
https://www.executedtoday.com/2020/10/31/1904-wang-weiqin-by-lingchi/
On this date in 1790, Samuel Hadlock hanged for a drunken murder committed on Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine. This fantastic story was thoroughly excavated in 1998 by some enthusiasts...
https://www.executedtoday.com/2020/10/28/1790-samuel-hadlock-mount-desert-island-murderer/