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After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was cruel and unusual for the offense charged The appeal failed and he became the first individualand the lastever to be executed for a crime of this sort He was hanged in 1901; in a macabre ending to his life of crime, his head was torn away by the rope as he fell from the gallowsTom Ketchum was born in 1863 on a farm ne ISBN10: 1574414747 ISBN13: 9781574414745 Material Type: paperback
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