Pretty interesting stuff, the timeline provides details of the crimes. Some of the police arrest procedures are funny, like setting fire to the building the guy was holed up in.
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Sheriff Edouard Richard said those who attended the hanging were satisfied with what they saw.
"Seeing that the Indians are averse to hanging and that all sorts of rumours were afloat amongst them and half breeds about deeds of cruelty that were to accompany the execution, invitations had been tendered to Indian Chiefs to assist at the execution," he wrote, in a report to the government. "Some of them responded to the invitation and declared that it was done in such a way that they could no more object to that mode of execution."
One witness, who had watched several other executions in the United States, also seemed pleased with the spectacle, slapping his thigh and saying, "Boys, it was the prettiest hanging I ever seen."
Is this a story when they hanged people to death without undeniable evidence? Or is it just a story about arseholes who liked to watch bad people die on a rope?
A total of 62 people were hanged in Alberta over the course of 81 years until Canada placed a moratorium the death penalty in 1967. Each week until Oct. 30, 2011, Edmonton Journal writer Jana G. Pruden will tell the stories of some of those who were sentenced to death.
It wouldnt suprise me if at least one of those 62 people were innocent.
History of Executions in Alberta
