John Brown hanged - On December 2, 1859, militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for murder and treason in the wake an unsuccessful attack on the US armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
https://www.jurist.org/thisday/
Read John Brown's last speech to the court at his trial, and review Daniel C. Draper, Legal Phases of the Trial of John Brown.
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