Posted on 04/22/2024 11:25:50 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Seattle Times, April 22, 1947. On this date in 1947, U.S. Army Private Garlon Mickles was hanged at a place called “execution gulch” in Honolulu’s Schofield Barracks.
Mickles had enlisted three years before, the 16-year-old son of a St. Louis laundress. (“Tell my mother I died like a man,” were his reported words to the chaplain.)
According to Associated Press reports, army engineers frustrated peeping eyes by “put[ting] up a smoke screen to shield the gallows from the view of the curious.”
He was convicted of raping and robbing a female War Department employee on Guam, where he was stationed with the Twentieth Air Force — from which staging-point the unit conducted bombing raids on mainland Japan. (The Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, was part of the 20th.)
Mickles appears to be the last person ever executed on the Hawaiian islands, and also an unusual overlook by the Espy File of U.S. executions, from which he’s totally absent.
He was anything but a man.
He was hanged. Now we turn ‘em loose to rape again.
My Dad was stationed at Schofield on Dec 7, 1941. He was having breakfast when the hell broke loose. That’s all he’d tell me.
He shouldn’t have raped and murdered.
It was also 1947 and back then people were culpable for their actions.
Today everyone is a victim. In fact, any sort of responsibility has been replaced by a victim mentally even if it’s a student/home loan, credit card debt, getting pregnant, getting HIV...
The Pearl Harbor bombing has nothing to do with this thread .
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Did he commit murder? The story only says “raping and robbing”. Still rates hanging even if the victim survived.
The records show murder
https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/14fed76c-a9e4-4002-af74-fc26016bb62a/content
He’s on pg 13
OK, thanks.
You’re correct.
I misread that.
He beat, raped and robbed her, then escaped from his confinement. Not minimizing rape, but it shouldn’t be a capital offense.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135175541/garlon-mickles#view-photo=178643956
This has some of the original documents that are pretty interesting.
Hanging a dude, even for rape, beating, robbing and escaping confinement is a bit harsh, IMHO. Especially, for a 19 year old and where nothing prior was mentioned.
Lot of catching up to do.
Thanks.
Now back to what I thought I had read, murder.
That changes everything in that it’s definitely a capital offense.
Web sites like this like to lie by omission: https://www.executedtoday.com/
They are obviously anti-capital punishment and by leaving out one major fact, they change the entire perception.
Nasty, but that’s how it’s done today even on CNN, MSNBC...
He likely did commit murder but that is simply deleted in the write up by the anti-capital punishment website that wants to remind folks of a “re-invented” history in order to change perceptions.
BTW, on further looking into this, I realize that pages of the description of the crime were missing (the link I sent you with the 6 slides)! There is a page between 5 and 6, and the images do not include the page numbering.
They simply chose to delete at least one page. When you go to slide 5 and slide 6 those are not complete. Also, these (((liars))) cut the page numbers off the bottom so that you don’t notice what they did. Even back then, they would number the pages.
That website isn’t merely lacking professional standards and oversight, they are deliberately lying to their readers in order to persuade them of some socio-political idea. Junk-
FU. I just thought I’d mention it. Were you there?
1608 -1776 do not belong on the list. These would have been carried out by orders of the King of England and/or his minions. The entire panel of executions coincidentally begins in 1608 when British and French brought slaves into the Colonies, just like revised history...the 1608 project. There are at least 1,000 on the list, and many more who were executions had nothing to do with US government or their States.
Nice language .
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