https://freerepublic.com/tag/unlessyoureaposkaren/ en-us Fri, 22 Sep 2023 04:31:41 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4184153/posts On this date in 1630,* the Ming statesman Yuan Chonghuan was executed by lingchi. Yuan (English Wikipedia entry | Chinese was a commander during the 1620s wars against invaders from Manchuria — wars that in due course would bring about the end of the Ming dynasty and the transition to the Manchu-founded Qing. For that very reason, Yuan cuts a sort of Stilicho figure, whose historical shadow is that of a capable commander undone due to petty infighting by a state too far gone to rot to recognize that it needed his talents.** Yuan scored some notable battlefield wins against... ExecutedToday.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4184153/posts#comment Fri, 22 Sep 2023 04:31:41 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4176465/posts The U.S. state of Oregon has the death penalty on the books, but hasn’t employed it on a non-consenting prisoner since August 20, 1962. That was the date that former logger LeRoy Sanford McGahuey, with a shrug of his broad shoulders and the sanguine parting observation “That’s it,” paid in the gas chamber for the 1961 hammer slayings of his girlfriend and her son.* (He’s also the last of seventeen people executed by lethal gas in Oregon history.) The late Oregon political lion Mark Hatfield, who was governor at the time, permitted the execution to go ahead despite misgivings about... ExecutedToday.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4176465/posts#comment Sun, 20 Aug 2023 15:06:28 GMT