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  2. List of people executed by the District of Columbia - Wikipedia

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    Executed for fatally shooting his wife and his brother in front of his wife's home in March 1912. William Howard Taft: Nathaniel Green: Black: 23: Male: June 9, 1913: Executed for the Christmas Day, 1912, rape of a woman. Woodrow Wilson: James Allen: Black: 36: Male: September 12, 1917: Executed for the November 1915 murder of his wife in their ...

  3. Dawn Moore - Wikipedia

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    Government House. Alma mater. University of Maryland, College Park. Dawn Chanté Flythe Moore (née Flythe; born August 8, 1975) [1] [2] is an American philanthropist, community organizer, campaign strategist, and the current first lady of Maryland as the wife of Governor Wes Moore. She is the first African-American first lady of the state.

  4. Arthur Frederick Goode III - Wikipedia

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    Kenneth Dawson, 11. Date. March 5, 1976. March 20, 1976. Country. United States. State (s) Maryland and Florida. Arthur Frederick Goode III (March 28, 1954 – April 5, 1984) was a convicted child murderer who was electrocuted in Florida in 1984.

  5. John Story (martyr) - Wikipedia

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    John Story (or Storey) (1504 – 1 June 1571) was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Member of Parliament. Story escaped to Flanders in 1563, but seven years later he was lured aboard a boat in Antwerp and abducted to England, where he was imprisoned in the Tower of London , and subsequently executed at Tyburn on a charge of treason.

  6. John Henry Seadlund - Wikipedia

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    Revolver. Date apprehended. January 14, 1938. John Henry Seadlund (July 27, 1910 – July 14, 1938) was a 27-year-old woodsman, executed by the United States federal government in Illinois for kidnapping. [1] FBI director J. Edgar Hoover called him "the nation’s cruelest criminal" and the "most cold-blooded, ruthless and atrocious killer" he ...

  7. Henry Wirz - Wikipedia

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    Henry Wirz (born Hartmann Heinrich Wirz; November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was a Confederate States Army officer and convicted war criminal who served during the American Civil War. [1] He was the commandant of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp near Andersonville, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 Union Army prisoners ...

  8. John D. Lee - Wikipedia

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    Children. 56. John Doyle Lee (September 6, 1812 – March 23, 1877) was an American pioneer, and prominent early member of the Latter Day Saint Movement in Utah. Lee was later convicted of mass murder for his complicity in the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre and sentenced to death. In 1877, he was executed by firing squad at the site of the ...

  9. Murder of Peter Weinberger - Wikipedia

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    Death. Peter Weinberger (June 2, 1956 – c. July 12, 1956) was a one-month-old infant who was kidnapped for ransom on July 4, 1956, in New York state. The case gained national notoriety due to the circumstances of the kidnapping and the victim's family, as unlike many ransom victims, Weinberger was not from a wealthy and prominent family, but ...