The Last Public Hanging in West Virginia - a podcast by Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

from 2016-04-05T11:00:36

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When there is a public execution, one expects a somber affair. That wasn’t the case with John Morgan of Ripley, whose hanging on December 16, 1897, for a grisly triple murder had more of a carnival atmosphere, which led the state of West Virginia to outlaw public hangings the next year. On this episode of […]