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  2. John Rooney (murderer) - Wikipedia

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    John Rooney (1880 – 17 October 1905) was an American convicted murderer who was the last person executed by North Dakota.. On 26 August 1902, a farm worker named Harold Sweet was shot and killed during a robbery near the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad tracks on the west side of Fargo, North Dakota.

  3. Franklin's lost expedition - Wikipedia

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    They started with John Torrington, the first crew member to die. [77] [self-published source] After completing Torrington's autopsy and exhuming and briefly examining the body of John Hartnell, the team, pressed for time and threatened by weather, returned to Edmonton with tissue and bone samples. [78]

  4. John Louis Evans - Wikipedia

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    John Louis Evans III (January 4, 1950 – April 22, 1983) was the first inmate to be executed by the state of Alabama after the United States reinstituted the death penalty in 1976. The manner of his execution is frequently cited by opponents of capital punishment in the United States .

  5. John Battaglia - Wikipedia

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    John David Battaglia Jr. [4] (August 2, 1955 – February 1, 2018) [5] [6] was an American convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Texas for killing his two young daughters in May 2001 in an act of "ultimate revenge" against his estranged ex-wife, Mary Jeane Pearle, who had separated from him after his numerous instances of assault and violence.

  6. John Lambert (martyr) - Wikipedia

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    Lambert was born John Nicholson in Norwich and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he became a friend and a colleague of Thomas Cromwell. [1] He was made a fellow there on the nomination of Catherine of Aragon. After theological disputes he changed his name and went to Antwerp, where he served as priest to the English factory.

  7. John B. Nixon - Wikipedia

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    John B. Nixon Sr. (April 1, 1928 – December 14, 2005) was an American convicted murderer. He was convicted of the January 22, 1985 murder-for-hire of Virginia Tucker in Rankin County, Mississippi. Born in Midnight in Humphreys County, Mississippi, he was executed in 2005 by the State of Mississippi.

  8. Hieronymus Lotter - Wikipedia

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    Hieronymus Lotter in the costume of a Leipzig councilman (oil on canvas, 1569) Hieronymus Lotter (* around 1497 in Nuremberg; † 22 July 1580 [1] in Geyer / Ore Mountains) was a merchant and several times mayor of Leipzig, construction manager for important sovereign building projects in Saxony and the driving force behind extensive building measures by the municipal council in Leipzig.

  9. John Thanos - Wikipedia

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    John Frederick Thanos (March 28, 1949 – May 17, 1994) [1] was an American spree killer who was convicted in 1992 of the murders of three teenagers: Gregory Taylor, Billy Winebrenner, and Melody Pistorio. He was executed for the murders in 1994, becoming the first person to be executed in Maryland since 1961. [2]