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  • 1835: Five professional gamblers lynched at Vicksburg

    07/06/2024 5:07:32 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 8 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | July 6, 2017 | Headsman
    On this date in 1835, five professional gamblers were strung up in Vicksburg. It was an event more adjacent to than constituent of the slave rebellion panic shaking Mississippi, for the men were neither slaves nor their confederates and they were not struck down for threatening the Slave Power; at best, the uneasiness of possible insurrectionary stirrings abroad informed the tense background, or offered the post hoc justification — but these lynchings were a different thing that inhabited by chance the same time and place. A Mississippi River boomtown “created by the easy credit of the Jacksonian ‘flush times’ and...
  • 1601: Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex

    02/25/2024 8:20:43 AM PST · by CheshireTheCat · 3 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | February 25, 2015 | Headsman
    On this date in 1601, Queen Elizabeth’s last great favorite became the last man beheaded in the Tower of London. Vain and dashing Robert Devereux rolled into the royal court in 1584 around age 19 and immediately established himself as the new favorite of the monarch, 30-some years his senior. They spent long walks and late nights in enchanted private company, and Devereux “commeth not to his owne lodginge tyll the birdes singe in the morninge.” Ye olde walke of shayme. In becoming the (presumed) lover* of the aging Virgin Queen, the Earl of Essex was only following the family**...
  • 1951: The first four of the Martinsville seven

    02/02/2024 4:36:34 PM PST · by CheshireTheCat · 4 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | February 2, 2012 | Headsman
    On this date in 1951, the first of two batches comprising the “Martinsville Seven” — black, all — went to the Virginia electric chair for gang-raping a white woman. (The remainder were executed on Feb. 5) Somewhat forgotten today, the Martinsville Seven were in their day the locus of radical activism against Jim Crow in the South — very much like Willie McGee, who was put to death in Louisiana later that same year. In fact, this case generated a bit of a legal milestone: a month before the executions began, the U.S. Supreme Court declined an appeal seeking relief...