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1829: Helena Katarina Löv

Helena Katarina Löv was beheaded with an ax on this date in 1829 at Skanstull — now just a part of Stockholm but at the time, the city’s southerly toll gate and a traditional execution site — for...

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2014: A Barawe bigamist

From Voice Of America news, dateline Saturday, September 28, 2014: A Somali woman has been publicly stoned to death for being married to several men at the same time. The 33-year-old woman was put to...

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1921: Fanya Baron, anarchist lioness

(Thanks to American anarchist Emma Goldman for the guest post — not her first in these pages — on her friend Fanya Baron, an anarchist whom Goldman had known in Chicago but who was enticed by the...

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1953: Erna Dorn, June 17 rising patsy

Erna Dorn was executed in secret in Dresden, East Germany on this date in 1953. Dorn (English Wikipedia entry | German) had been a typist in Gestapo headquarters — real banality of evil stuff — before...

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1614: Magdalena Weixler, “my innocence will come to light”

From Servants of Satan: The Age of the Witch Hunts: Another surviving letter from a condemned witch to her husband comes from Ellwangen in 1614. Magdalena Weixler wife of the chapter scribe Georg,...

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2019: Hervin Khalaf, Rojava politician

One year ago today, Rojava political figure Hervin Khalaf was killed by summary execution. A Syrian Kurd whose family counts several martyrs to that people’s long struggle for self-determination,...

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1526: Bianca Maria Gaspardone, the Insatiate Countess

On this date in 1526, Bianca Maria Gaspardone was beheaded at Milan’s Castello di Porta Giova, the present-day Castello Sforzesco. She was only about 26 years old, but onto her second* dynastic...

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