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1823: Dr. Edme Castaing, the first to kill with morphine
Executed Today | December 6th 2009 by Executed Today
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 poi read more
1950: Werner Gladow, teen Capone
Executed Today | December 5th 2009 by Executed Today
On this date in 1950, 19-year-old gangster Werner Gladow was beheaded in East Germany for his brief but scintillating criminal career terrorizing the postwar ruins of Berlin. Werner Gladow Young Gladow (German link) was just young enough not to get read more
1689: Karposh, Macedonian rebel
Executed Today | December 4th 2009 by Executed Today
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 Mohamm read more
Geoff Johns’ Run on Green Lantern – Secret Origins, The Rage…
the m0vie blog | December 3rd 2009
It's no secret that I've been greatly enjoying Geoff Johns' run on the Green Lantern title (along with seemingly everybody else). After successfully resurrecting a fallen hero, reestablishing the various traits of the Green Lantern mythos and giving read more
1876: The samurai leaders of the Hagi and Akizuki rebellions
Executed Today | December 3rd 2009 by Executed Today
Unless you’re a Jedi knight, feudal warrior castes and industrial civilization go together like sashimi and fries. So, when the Meiji Restoration made its choice for Japanese modernization, it gained the enmity of the samurai it necessarily dis read more
1938: Robert Lee Cannon and Albert Kessell, the first gassed in C…
Executed Today | December 2nd 2009 by Executed Today
On this date in 1938, California debuted the latest in killing technology when its brand new gas chamber consumed Robert Lee Cannon and Albert Kessel for the previous year’s riot in Folsom Prison. Folsom Prison. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sw read more
1945: Anton Dostler, gone commando
Executed Today | December 1st 2009 by Executed Today
On December 1, 1945, German General Anton Dostler was shot by the American military at Aversa, Italy, for war crimes. Gen. Dostler readied for execution, from the U.S. National Archives. Click for larger image, or click here for the post-execution p read more
Mental Illness and the Death Penalty
mikeb302000 | December 1st 2009
The Tuscon Citizen published an article about the never-ending problems with the Death Penalty.Lately there have been stories in the news about people that were given the death penalty(capital punishment) and executed only to find out later through read more
Why Religion and Politics Should Never Mix
Justice Gambit | November 30th 2009 by Michael Blankenship
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) has taken at least 20 "missionary" trips overseas since he's been in office, allegedly paid for by U.S. taxpayers, using military transport. He is especially fond of Uganda, boasting that he has "adopted" the East Af read more
1945: Heinz Eck, U-Boat commander
Executed Today | November 30th 2009 by Executed Today
On this date in 1945, Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the Unterseeboot U-852 were shot in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a sunk target. The defendants in the U-852 trial. From left to right: Eck, August Hoffmann, Walter read more
THE PROTOCOLS, BLOOD LIBEL, MATZO BALLS, JESUS'S MURDER, ORGAN TR…
Real Liberal Christian Church - Christian Commons | November 28th 2009 by Tom
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion was a tract purported by most Jews to have been plagiarized likely by the Russian secret service under the Czar and from a work by Joly written against Louis Napoleon of read more
1871: Louis Rossel, Théophile Ferré, and Sergeant Bourgeois, Co…
Executed Today | November 28th 2009 by Executed Today
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 | Engl read more
Kentucky Executions on Hold
Prison Abolitionist | November 27th 2009 by Margaret J Plews
From the New York Times:---------------- November 26, 2009 Kentucky’s Highest Court Halts Executions in State By JOHN SCHWARTZ The Supreme Court of Kentucky suspended executions in the state Wednesday, ruling that officials did not read more
1911: Ah Q
Executed Today | November 27th 2009 by Executed Today
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 read more
1600: Hansel Pappenheimer, following his family
Executed Today | November 26th 2009 by Executed Today
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 c read more
C Street “Family” behind Uganda’s death penalty for gays?
Inside, Looking Out | November 25th 2009 by Elvis
Interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air, Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, discussed the connection between the Family and Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, which prescribes the death pena read more
2008: Amoudou Samassa, to quell a lynch mob
Executed Today | November 25th 2009 by Executed Today
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, provoki read more
The deterrent effect of capital punishment
Notes from underground | November 24th 2009 by Steve Hayes
From The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. Friday 20th July, 1849EFFECT OF EXECUTION - A correspondent informs us that JOHN VANSTONE and WILLIAM LEE, were executed at Bodmin on the 1st of September, 1802, for burglary; the daughter of one of th read more
Joint Enterprise (Another Misguided Policy)
Grey Noughts | November 24th 2009 by Vladimir Oka
Minutes after finishing the previous post I saw a BBC Panorama show on the subject of "joint enterprise", a piece of UK legislation that covers persons who were present at a crime (especially a murder) and did not leave or attempt to do anything to s read more
1326: Hugh Despenser the Younger, King Edward II’s lover?
Executed Today | November 24th 2009 by Executed Today
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 Englan read more
Life Is Life (Or So It Should Be)
Grey Noughts | November 23rd 2009 by Vladimir Oka
Again, this is not about that famous 80s song. Neither it is about that not so famous, but so much better in my opinion, cover by Laibach. So what is it about then?Life sentence. In the United Kingdom in particular.Why? Mostly because it is pointless read more
Giving Franciscan Witness Through Corporate Stands
Franciscan Life | November 23rd 2009
Image via WikipediaAs Franciscan women called to follow the gospel in the spirit of St. Francis and our foundress, Mother Francis Bachmann, we are committed to being a voice of peace, justice, and healing in the world in which we live. One way that w read more
1974: Black Saturday in Ethiopia
Executed Today | November 23rd 2009 by Executed Today
November 23, 1974 was “Bloody Saturday” in Ethiopia for that day’s* surprise purge of some threescore politicians and soldiers by the ruling Derg. It was barely ten weeks since the Derg — an Amharic word word “committee& read more
1895: Florence English and Amanda Cody
Executed Today | November 22nd 2009 by Executed Today
On this date in 1895, Amanda (Mandy) Cody became the first woman hanged in Georgia’s Warren County when she died with her (male) lover Florence English for murdering Cody’s husband, Cicero and dumping his body in a swamp. According to The read more
PRO-CAPITAL-PUNISHMENT ILLOGIC: LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN DRIVE T…
Real Liberal Christian Church - Christian Commons | November 21st 2009 by Tom
I added the following to the Facebook group, "Abolish the Death Penalty II": http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18 1786212516 One of the things this group can do is be a forum where refutations to pro-capital punishment assertions may be stated, s read more
1803: Johannes Bückler, “Schinderhannes”
Executed Today | November 21st 2009 by Executed Today
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, read more
1803: Johannes Bückler, “Schinderhannes”
Executed Today | November 21st 2009 by Executed Today
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, read more
Of This And That--All In The Course Of A Week!
Franciscan Life | November 20th 2009
Image by ilMinotauro via FlickrIt's been a busy week here at our motherhouse in Aston--for our communications office, for the sisters who live here, and for those who live in surroundings areas.Several of our sisters who minister in Ireland, Puerto R read more
Christian leaders unite to teach youth intolerance
Allison Kilkenny: Unreported | November 20th 2009 by Allison Kilkenny
James Dobson Image via Wikipedia A group of 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that “could be used to compel their institutions to participate in a read more
1676: Johan Johansson Griis, the Gävle Boy
Executed Today | November 20th 2009 by Executed Today
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 read more
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