150 Year Old Execution
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Execution 150 years ago spurs calls for pardon
On December 26, 1862, thirty-eight doomed Dakota Indians wailed and danced atop the gallows, waiting for the trapdoors to drop beneath them. The square scaffold, built here to accommodate the largest mass execution in United States history, swayed under their weight."It seemed that the purpose of the singing and dancing was only to sustain each oth...
'150 Year Old Execution' - 1 News Result(s)
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Execution 150 years ago spurs calls for pardon
On December 26, 1862, thirty-eight doomed Dakota Indians wailed and danced atop the gallows, waiting for the trapdoors to drop beneath them. The square scaffold, built here to accommodate the largest mass execution in United States history, swayed under their weight."It seemed that the purpose of the singing and dancing was only to sustain each oth...
