The Haymarket Affair Bombers are Executed by Hanging. November 11, 1887: The Haymarket Affair bombers, August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed. The Haymarket affair a/k/a the "Haymarket Massacre" and "Haymarket Riot" was a bombing that occurred at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. … [Read more...]
Slave Leader Nat Turner is Convicted for “conspiring to rebel and making insurrection”
Slave Leader Nat Turner is Convicted for "conspiring to rebel and making insurrection" November 5, 1831: In Jerusalem, Virginia, Slave Leader Nat Turner is convicted for "conspiring to rebel and making insurrection" and sentenced to death. Six days later on November 11, Turner was hanged and his body was flayed, beheaded and quartered. In all there … [Read more...]