Category: Capital punishment

Yellow Mama claims her first victim in AL

The chair acquired its color from a contribution of highway line paint from the adjacent State Highway Department lab. It was built in 1927.

front page Wheeling register, January 20, 1894

January 24, 2019 Appalachian crime / Capital punishment / West Virginia

John Hardy attributed his downfall to whiskey

WILD E, W. VA., January 19. – “John Hardy, for killing Thomas Drews, both colored, was hung at 2:09 p. m. to-day. Three thousand people witnessed his death.

whitegate cemetery in moundsville wv (1)

June 12, 2018 Appalachian crime / Capital punishment / West Virginia

And he finally murdered her. Just murdered her brutally.

He was hanged in Moundsville. His head fell off when they hung him! They put him on the gallows, sprung the thing and his head flew off.

March 18, 2014 Appalachian crime / Capital punishment / West Virginia

Grisly anniversary: hanging the Bluebeard of Quiet Dell

Who was Harry Powers, aka the Bluebeard of Quiet Dell, one of the first men in modern history to be labeled a serial killer?

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