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Hiram T. Smith. Private Hiram T. Smith is a legendary casualty of the bloodless Maine Aroostook War, having died in 1838. Although one of roughly 38 men killed (all were non-combat deaths), he is the most famous because many locals consider him the only casualty of the war.
Kidnapped and murdered 23-year-old Harvey Mad Man and 20-year-old Thomas Running Rabbit, two Native American men in the fall of 1982. 41 years, 71 days. Smith is the only Canadian on death row in the United States.
Death row. Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for ...
www .aroostook .me .us. Aroostook County ( / əˈruːstək / ə-ROO-stək; French: Comté d'Aroostook) is a county in the U.S. state of Maine along the Canada–United States border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,105. [3] The county seat is Houlton, [4] with offices in Caribou and Fort Kent.
The Aroostook War (sometimes called the Pork and Beans War [1] ), or the Madawaska War, [2] was a military and civilian-involved confrontation in 1838–1839 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the international boundary between the British colony of New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine. The term "war" was rhetorical ...
Capital punishment has been abolished in the U.S. state of Maine since 1887. There are twenty-one recorded people executed in the state of Maine between the years of 1644 and 1885. Ten of these executions were carried out before statehood (gained on March 15, 1820), and eleven after. Hanging was the only method of execution carried out in the ...
The origin of the name Maine is unclear. One theory is that it was named after the French province of Maine. Another is that it derives from a practical nautical term, "the main" or "Main Land", "Meyne" or "Mainland", which served to distinguish the bulk of the state from its numerous islands. [1] Whatever the origin, the name was fixed for ...
Cynthia Coffman. Along with her boyfriend James Marlow, Coffman was convicted of the kidnappings, robberies and murders of Sandra Neary, Pamela Simmons, Corinna Novis and Lynel Murray on October and November 1986. Novis and Murray were sexually assaulted by Marlow. 34 years, 9 months and 2 days.