Posted on 02/14/2024 5:39:45 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
Last year, the Rhode Island General Assembly approved a measure posthumously pardoning John Gordon — who on February 14, 1845 was the last man executed in that state.
Gordon’s hanging, for the murder of a prominent industrialist who had bad blood with Gordon’s brother, was long notorious in Rhode Island as one secured on highly uncertain evidence in an atmosphere of anti-Irish prejudice.
Executed Today is pleased to welcome on this occasion University of Rhode Island labor historian Scott Molloy, author of Irish Titan, Irish Toilers and a major advocate of the Gordon pardon.
ET: Can you set the scene — what’s going on in Rhode Island at this time, and what are the tensions surrounding Irish immigrants?
SM: Rhode Island was the site of the first factory in America in the 1790s, called Slater Mill. It really changed the face of Rhode Island and eventually the rest of the US.....
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The only thing Rhose Island is good for is being used as a size comparison for other places.
Harding County New Mexico is twice it’s size and only has 600 inhabitants.
Very interesting. There’s a different set of justice for the rich and for the dirt poor at the bottom of social ladder.
Do the “dirt poor” commit crimes and get a different set of justice?
Why ask? You already have your opinion of “rich” justice.
The answer is to strive to be rich and never be hanged./S
548 Rhode Islands would fit inside of Alaska.
Rhode Island is Boston’s parking lot.
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