EQUAL IN DEATH: The Last Public Execution in Ohio – 1844

On February 9, 1844, Esther Foster and William Graham were jointly executed by hanging, in Columbus, Ohio, on the same scaffold. It was the last public execution held in the state. Foster was an African-American woman and Graham was a white man.

HISTORICAL REFERENCES:

Ohio State Journal, February 9, 1844.

Historical Lights and Shadows of the Ohio State Penitentiary (1893), by Daniel J. Morgan.

History of Franklin County, Ohio (1855), by William T. Martin. 

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Intro-Outro Narrator – Floyd Frye of The Pop List podcast.

Daniel J. Morgan – Mike Brown of the Pleasing Terrors podcast

William T. Martin – Nick Howell of The Concession Stand and Busted Wide Open podcasts and the Orbital Jigsaw Network. 

Esther Foster – Danielle Jones of the Between Us Girls podcast

William Graham – Dennis Serra of the Evil podcast.

Reporter, Ohio State Journal – Pete Lutz of the Narada Radio Company and 63 Audio

Editor, Ohio State Journal – Sam Kulper of the Breakers podcast

Ohio Constitution (voice) – Robin Warder of The Trail Went Cold podcast

Extro Aphorism (voice) – Kit Caren of the Forgotten News Podcast.

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EXTRO APHORISM:

Source: Chesterton, G.K., What's Wrong With the World (1916), at chapter Sincerity and the Gallows

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