Posted on 06/05/2020 12:05:18 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1806, immigrants Dominic Daley and James Halligan were hanged at Northampton, Massachusetts. In the words of one widely reproduced report, “They persisted in their innocence to the last moment, although there were perhaps not a single one of the numerous spectators present, which was presumed to amount to nearly 15,000, who entertained a doubt of their guilt.”
Today, nearly everyone thinks them innocent.
The case began, as many wrongful convictions do, with a particularly outrageous crime — a young farmer, Marcus Lyon, found dead in a Massachusetts creek en route to his home in Connecticut. He’d been shot through the chest and his brains battered out of his skull. The motive: robbery.
In the absence of substantive evidence, some witnesses with vague reports of strangers on the fatal turnpike furnished tissue for an entire theory of the case, and through the misapprehended focus of tunnel vision the strangers became Irishmen, and the Irishmen became Dominic Haley and James Halligan....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Needs to be read by every BLM member today.
Several years ago I was teaching assistant in a course called, if I recall correctly, Racism and Society. It was taught by a lovely black woman who lost her job because she wasn’t a leftist.
She spent the first five weeks teaching about the history of racism, ethnocentrism, prejudice, genocide, etc. and included examples like the one I posted.
It really made a big difference in how the black students thought.
Good for her, she’s doing great work.
Thank you for reading my post and reply.
I imagine a lot of people on FR think I am weird for posting these daily posts about executions, but I think there is a lot of interesting history surrounding them.
I agree. I sometimes go to Pro-death penalty sites just to get the truth about what murderers did because almost all media stories focus on the perp and not the victim, which is despicable. Your posting is very interesting for it’s historical content. Thank you!
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