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• 1803: Johannes Bückler, “Schinderhannes”

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 02:50 in science, tourism, france, famous, Germany, history, crime, cycling, biology, death penalty, opera, popular culture

  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,...

• 1676: Johan Johansson Griis, the Gävle Boy

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 02:51 in sweden, children, history, death penalty, stockholm, witch hunt, capital punishment, 17th century, perjury, blaxploitation, execution, 1676

  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 its...

• 2002: Craig Neil Ogan, drug war informant

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 02:59 in texas, huntsville, usa, crime, death penalty, houston, murder, capital punishment, 2002, spies, 2000s, lethal injection

  (Thanks to David Carson of the informative Texas Execution Information Center for the guest post, originally run on his site. -ed.) Craig Neil Ogan, 47, was executed by lethal injection on 19 November 2002 in Huntsville, Texas for the murder of a pol...

• 1864: Hong Tianguifu, in the Taiping Rebellion

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 02:44 in christianity, children, china, God, history, death penalty, power, royalty, free trade, treason, capital punishment, execution

  On this date in 1864, the sins of the father were visited upon the son when the Qing Dynasty dealt a coup de grace in what is perhaps history’s bloodiest civil war, executing the luckless teenager to whom leadership of the Taiping Rebellion had...

• 1864: Hong Tianguifu, in the Taiping Rebellion

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 02:44 in christianity, children, china, God, history, death penalty, power, royalty, free trade, treason, capital punishment, execution

  On this date in 1864, the sins of the father were visited upon the son when the Qing Dynasty dealt a coup de grace in what is perhaps history’s bloodiest civil war, executing the luckless teenager to whom leadership of the Taiping Rebellion had...

• 1909: Leonard Groce and Lee Roy Cannon, American mercenaries in Nicaragua

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 02:12 in history, usa, nicaragua, death penalty, Soldiers, terrorists, 1900s, shot, capital punishment, 20th century, panama canal, execution

  In few countries is it possible to trace the development of anti-American sentiment as clearly as in Nicaragua. A century of trouble between the two nations, which led to the death of thousands and great suffering for generations of Nicaraguans, beg...

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