I do not presume to comment on this particular case, but I have to say — ‘Law & Order’ worked.
Tar & feathers, hangings, ‘shoot ‘em if you catch them in the act’ — sometimes it is not good to throw out EVERY old tradition.
tongue in cheek, sort of.
Journalists lie.
Just what they do.
Actually, if they dropped the accused four to five feet, it’s a pretty humane way of execution. It just looks brutal. But if they merely suffocated them, that would be pretty bad.
Owensboro is better known for the Moonlight Barbecue than the last hanging.
Guess what he did to get hung.
I can think of some congress critters that need hangin...
Just saying...
Drama Queens!
Stand by for plenty of this for the next 15 months.
Perry Smith and Dick Hickok were hanged in Kansas. It must have been in the 60’s. Probably not considered public tho.
I went to Wikipedia and read the story on this hanging. It is pretty interesting.
The guy was hanged for rape. He confessed 5 times then denied his confession.
The Sherriff was a woman who got her job because her husband had it previously, It was the Sheriffs job to do the hanging, but an ex-policeman volunteered to do it for her. Then a man who had supervised many previous hangings showed up to make sure it was done right.
He placed the guy on the scaffold and called to the ex-policeman to trip the door, but the ex-policeman was drunk and some other guy standing next to him actually did the deed.
In any case the guy was guilty and justice prevailed. Nothing to be haunted about.
What was the execution method there after banning hanging? Elec chair, firing squad?
” gesturing to where the grave of the last man publicly executed in the United States may be.”
BS, three to four everyday are executed in this country, maybe not directly by court order, but by design regardlessly
I was talking to a friend on Saturday about the 30 hangings in Downieville Ca near Quincy where he lived a a kid. It is preserved as a Sate Park...
“I think it was over there,”
He sounds all broken up over it still. /sarc
I think losing a HS football game to a nearby rival would be far more traumatic. This would be at worst a minor inconvenience when idiot reporters come around to grind their favorite ax.
In 1937 the last hanging in my hometown was performed.
My hometown of Kennett Missouri had hangings, the last one in 1937. For the one in 1935, my dad was town constable at the time, but as it was the county carrying out the execution, he had no participation in it. The hanging was of a 25 year old Black man convicted of raping two White girls. According to the local paper, an estimated 350-400 people were inside the enclosure to witness the hanging, but another crowd of 5,000 were just outside. The paper also gave a rather grisly account of the 13 minutes it took for the man to actually die after he dropped 9 feet.
Was just a kid, but I personally knew Tom Donaldson the sheriff who pulled the lever, remember him as affable, but was always a little spooked to be around him.
You don't say? I think public hangings should be reinstituted. Good education for feral youth, and from what I gather from the article, it seemed to spur local commerce.
On the spititual side, I hope the young man looked to Christ for forgiveness, and that I can call him my brother in the Lord.
“I think it was over there... That’s what I was told. It was over there somewhere.” says an 81 year old man.
But the whole town is “haunted” by it.
Anyone else sensing a slight disconnect here?
Nothing wrong with a good hanging.