Tag: Imprisoned Graves

• A New Year’s Eve special – The President and the hangman.

  

  Well, seeing as it’s New Year’s Eve and I’m feeling generous, here’s something especially unusual. It’s not often that a President and an executioner meet, especially on a professional basis. US President Grover Cleveland was a notable exception, although he performed his two hangings while Sheriff of Erie County long before entering the White House.…

  CrimeScribe

  December 31, 2019

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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