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The site also contains the Andersonville National Cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum. The prison was created in February 1864 and served until April 1865. The site was commanded by Captain Henry Wirz, who was tried and executed after the war for war crimes. The prison was overcrowded to four times its capacity, and had an ...
The Battle of Atlanta took place during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.Continuing their summer campaign to seize the important rail and supply hub of Atlanta, Union forces commanded by William Tecumseh Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John Bell Hood.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-2028-6. Hattaway, Herman, and Archer Jones. How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1983. ISBN 0-252-00918-5. Kennett, Lee (1995) Marching through Georgia: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians During Sherman's Campaign. New ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electrocution and 8 via lethal injection.
The next year, a monument to the Prince de Polignac, a Confederate officer, was erected at the site. [7] This was the first monument at the site. [8] That same year, state congressman W. H. Farmer introduced legislation to provide $5,000 of state funds for the site. [9] Governor of Louisiana Henry L. Fuqua signed Farmer's bill into law in July ...
Old Sparky at the Tucker Unit, Arkansas.It was used to conduct 104 executions from 1926 to 1948. Old Sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
List of people executed in the United States in 2000; List of people executed in the United States in 2001; List of people executed in the United States in 2002
Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for rape of an adult woman when the victim is not killed.; Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill.