DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
On this Day July 7th, 1865 Four of the conspirators in Lincoln's assassination were hanged.
John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Lincoln was part of a much larger plot involving many people in a misguided belief that the disruption in assassinating President Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward could somehow help to revive the Confederacy. Seward was ultimately only wounded and the conspirator who was to assassinate Johnson was too drunk to carry out his part of the plan. Booth was shot and killed after a 12 day manhunt. In the ensuing investigation hundreds were questioned and many were arrested. Ultimately, 8 were tried by a nine member military tribunal. Use of a military tribunal was controversial but it was argued that Washington DC was under martial law at the time and the conspirators could be considered enemy combatants. The trial lasted 7 weeks with 366 witnesses. As a result, 4 were sentenced to death, 3 received life sentences, and one 6 years. One of those hanged was Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the Federal government.
Interesting reading about the conspirators.
Side notes: The time elapsed from Booth shooting Lincoln to the hanging was 84 days and more than half of that was the trial. Curious, I searched for a modern statistic... In 2021, the average time for a prisoner to be on death row is 20 years.
The last public hanging was in Kentucky, 1936, for the rape and murder of a 70-year-old woman. It took place before a crowd of 20,000 which led to outrage ending the spectacle of public executions. The last execution by hanging in the United States was in Delaware, 1996, for a double murder. The inmate chose hanging over lethal injection.
I randomly picked a knife off the shelf for this week. Later realized I already used this one last fall but I'm too tired to do another so it's repeat Sunday for me This is the 2015 Legacy Vanguard "Golden Wolf". A limited edition of 250 with a Burlwood handle. Burl species was not given in the catalog. The COA is incorrect listing the handle as Dymondwood.
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