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18. Feb. 2021 · Sentenced to death, but innocent: These are stories of justice gone wrong. Since 1973, more than 8,700 people in the U.S. have been sent to death row. At least 182 weren’t guilty—their lives ...
Case Summaries of Executed Women. Women. Velma Barfield in North Carolina on November 2, 1984 - She was in a relationship with Stuart Taylor who was a widower. She forged checks on Taylor’s account to pay for her addiction. Fearing that she had been found out, she mixed an arsenic based rat poison into his beer and tea.
14. Sept. 2023 · M. Watt Espy, Jr. and John Ortiz Smykla gathered data from state Department of Corrections records, newspapers, county histories, proceedings of state and local courts, holdings of historical societies, museums, and other listings of executions to compile a 32-year study of 15,269 executions performed from 1608-2002 under legal civil authority in the US, or within territories which later ...
30. Aug. 2023 · In one of the most heartbreakingly famous executions in Ireland, Plunkett married his lover, Grace Gifford, in Kilmainham Gaol prior to his execution by firing squad, inspiring the famous song by The Dubliners. 1. Roger Casement (1916) – one of the only leaders of the Rising to be executed outside of Ireland
The famous 1973 horror film The Wicker Man features a scene in which a large wooden figure of a man is set on fire, ritually burning alive the victim inside of it. Some sources claim this mode of execution was used by the Ancient Celts. The archaeological evidence that the Druids performed human sacrifice is weak, but it is mentioned in ancient sources.
Here are 15 famous stories of execution: 15) Mary Surratt. The first execution of a woman in the history of the United States took place when Mary Surratt was put to death for her role in a presidential assassination. Even though John Wilkes Booth was the man who was primarily responsible for the actual murder of President Abraham Lincoln, Mary ...
Margaret Pole was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, the Brother of Richard III and Edward IV. She was executed by the son of her cousin - Henry VIII - on 27 May 1541. She was aged 67. Sentenced to be beheaded for supporting Roman Catholicism and conspiring against the King, her execution was far from dignified.
