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• 1541: Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham, the Queen’s lovers

  
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  Indictment: That Katharine, queen of England , formerly called Kath. Howerd, late of Lambyth, Surr., one of the daughters of lord Edmund Howard, before the marriage between the King and her, led an abominable, base, carnal, voluptuous, and vicious life, like a common harlot, with divers persons, as with Francis ...
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• 1549: Robert Kett, rebelling against enclosures

  
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  On this date in 1549, Robert Kett (sometimes “Ket” or “Kette”) was hanged over the side of Norwich Castle for a Reviews here and here . Possibly England’s last medieval peasant rising, and possibly its first modern revolt, Kett’s Rebellion pitted the agrarian feudal commons against the ...
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• 1823: Dr. Edme Castaing, the first to kill with morphine

  
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  On this date in 1823, French physician Edme Castaing expiated upon the scaffold history’s first conviction for murder with morphine. The good doc used the drug , a new twist on an ancient remedy only recently brought to market, apparently to poison off one of two wealthy brothers with the connivance of the ...
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• 1689: Karposh, Macedonian rebel

  
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  On an uncertain date in early December (or possibly late November), the Macedonian* rebel Karposh was executed at Skopje. The Great Turkish War had seen the Ottomans advance to the gates of Vienna , but an alliance of European powers pushed the Mohammedan back. Their crisscrossing armies roiled the Balkans, ...
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• Rolling Stones Taibbi: Public Executions for Party Crashers; NYT’s Rich: They Are Party Terrorists

  
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  Has the left finally a reason to be impassioned by a threat to our national security? Michaele and Tareq Salahi seem to have provided that reason. After the Salahis literally crashed a White House State Dinner on Nov. 24, the two demonstrated how vulnerable President Barack Obama could be to outside intruders. And ...
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• 1871: Louis Rossel, Théophile Ferré, and Sergeant Bourgeois, Communards

  
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  On this date in 1871, three very disparate men of the recently quashed Paris Commune were shot together at Satory. Louis Rossel (top) and Theophile Ferre. The mysterious Bourgeois will have to be imagined. Louis Rossel ( French Wikipedia link | English ) got the press — the public sighs, the clemency ...
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• 1911: Ah Q

  
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  On this date in 1911, the fictional title character of Lu Xun’s The True Story of Ah Q was shot in “Weichuang village,” China. Ah Q wins another victory. Image from the Marxist Internet Archive . A modern masterpiece that remains standard reading in China, The True Story of Ah Q was also one of the ...
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• 1600: Hansel Pappenheimer, following his family

  
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  A few months ago, Executed Today detailed the dreadful fate of the Pappenheimers , a family of poor itinerants swept into a witch scare and horrifically executed. 10- or 11-year-old Hansel Pappenheimer was made to provide some of the testimony that condemned his parents and older siblings to a torturous public ...
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• 2008: Amoudou Samassa, to quell a lynch mob

  
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  Last year on this date, a Central African Republic presidential guard summarily executed a man in a hospital to satisfy a lynch mob pursuing him for murdering his wife. Amoudou Samassa was supposed to have stabbed his estranged wife to death, provoking an armed mob intent on dispensing street justice. After ...
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• 1326: Hugh Despenser the Younger, King Edward II’s lover?

  
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  On this date in 1326, the power behind Edward II’s throne — and the presumed lover in his bed — was hanged, drawn and quartered and pointedly emasculated in a grisly public execution as the Queen and her lover took control of England. (Wince.) The younger Despenser, being carved up in an illustration from ...
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• 1803: Johannes Bückler, “Schinderhannes”

  
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  On this date in 1803, the famous German bandit “Schinderhannes” and 19 others of his gang were efficiently guillotined in French-occupied Rhineland. Schinderhannes with mistress Juliana Blasius and their child. As low-born as they come, Johannes Bückler ( English Wikipedia link | German ) hailed from a ...
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• 1676: Johan Johansson Griis, the Gävle Boy

  
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  On an uncertain date in November 1676, the Gävle Boy paid the penalty for his elders’ credulity. Only 13 years old at his death, he’d spent the foregoing months as the star witness in Stockholm’s witch trials. Like the hysteria itself, he’d migrated to the capital from the provinces; it’s said that in his ...
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• 1539: Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury

  
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  Letter to Thomas Cromwell from his man in Somerset,* Richard Pollard, a local gentry type making out well under the Dissolution of the Monasteries : Pleaseth it your lordship to be advertised, that … the same 15th day [of November] the late abbot of Glastonbury went from Wells to Glastonbury, and there was ...
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• 1726: The Gypsy outlaws of Hesse-Darmstadt

  
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  On November 14 and 15, 1726, more than 20 Gypsy outlaws of Hesse-Darmstadt Detail view (click for full image) of the execution of the Gypsies at Giessen. Gypsies in Europe still suffer ample discrimination today, so it’s little surprise to find early modern Europe thick with anti-Gypsy legislation . ...
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• 1534: Barthélemi Milon, for the Affair of the Placards

  
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  On this date* in 1534, a crippled shoemaker’s son went to the stake … the harbinger of many a pyre that would swallow many a French soul in the internecine struggle over religion that lay ahead. A relatively chilled-out start to the Protestant Reformation under the tolerant King Francis I had the moderate ...
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• 1679: The hot-blooded Lady Christian Nimmo

  
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  On this date in 1679, a spurned lover laid her head on the block in Edinburgh and began her career as a spook. Decadent widower James Forrester (or Forester), having run through his cash, was marking his time at the pub and in the arms of Lady Christian Nimmo. She was a great deal younger than himiself, and a ...
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• 1909: Will James, “the Froggie”, lynched in Cairo

  
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  One hundred years ago today, Will James was lynched as a murderer in Cairo, Illinois. “The Frog” or “The Froggie” was a black man implicated in the murder of a white girl, captured in nearby Belknap and taken to the most prominent square in the city and strung up. The rope broke and the man was riddled ...
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• 1780: Corregidor Antonio de Arriaga, by his slave

  
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  On this date in 1780, Incan-Peruvian indigenous leader Tupac Amaru launched his insurrection against the Spanish with the public execution of a Spanish corregidor . Antonio de Arriaga, as Spain’s man in Tungasuca, had as part of his job description forcing curacas to extract the crown’s tribute from the ...
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• 1793: The smitten Adam Lux

  
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  Among all the strange and pathetic love-stories of the Revolution, when hearts were won within prison walls and wedded by the guillotine, is there another as fantastic and wonderful as that of Adam Luchs? ( Source ) Adam Lux (as he’s better known, and a fitter name to his character could hardly be invented), ...
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• 1796: Lesurques, wrongly, and Couriol, rightly, for robbing the Lyons Mail

  
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  On this date* in 1796, France enacted what was long held to be one of its most notorious miscarriages of criminal justice by cutting off the head of Joseph Lesurques. Lesurques was taken for the one of a gang who had sensationally robbed and murdered a mail courier early in 1796, and on the basis of slight ...
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