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Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; c. 1611 – 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan-turned-Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony due to their theological expansion of the Puritan concept of a church of individuals regenerated by the Holy Spirit to the idea of the indwelling of the Spirit ...
The Boston martyrs is the name given in Quaker tradition [1] to the three English members of the Society of Friends, Marmaduke Stephenson, William Robinson and Mary Dyer, and to the Barbadian Friend William Leddra, who were condemned to death and executed by public hanging for their religious beliefs under the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659, 1660 and 1661.
Time on death row Other; Robin Lee Row [45] Row was convicted of the 1992 deaths of her husband and two children. Prosecutors say she set the family home on fire in order to collect insurance money. [45] 31 years, 2 months and 4 days Robin Row had two other children, one of whom died supposedly of sudden infant death syndrome.
A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin's Death Row. California is shutting down death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general population at ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole before he hands over ...
Mary Latham 18 White Female Housewife Adultery 1643-03-21 Hanging Plymouth 12 William Franklin White Male Farmer Murder 1644-04-08 Hanging Suffolk 13 Mary Martin 22 White Female Servant Murder 1646 Hanging Suffolk 14 Alice Bishop White Female ? Murder 1648 Hanging Suffolk 15 Margaret Jones: White Female Housewife Witchcraft: 1648-06-15 Hanging ...
As Freddie Eugene Owens lives the last hours of his life, USA TODAY is sharing some of the South Carolina death row inmate's handwritten letters to a woman he loved. At times furious and at others ...
Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Donna Roberts: Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance. 21 years, 240 days [82] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp