The New Newgate Calendar

On this date in 1938, Austrian Martha Marek was guillotined in Vienna for several murders by poison. She first came to the attention of the discerning... read more »

(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1774, Peter Galwin and John Taylor were hanged together in Burlington... read more »

There is one example of this violation in Virginia, of a most striking and shocking nature; an example so horrid, that if I conceived my country would... read more »

On this date in 1864, a hulking Methodist minister by the name of Bill Sketoe was hanged in Newton, Alabama … but his ghost story was only just beginning.... read more »

While today, the weekly wage or the monthly salary goes straight into a bank account, accessible by magic plastic cards and machines on the street –... read more »

(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) Sometime in December 1644 in Maine, one Goodwife Cornish was executed for the... read more »

On this date in 1922, James Mahoney hanged in Washington’s Walla Walla penitentiary for one of Seattle’s most notorious crimes. Two years prior,... read more »