Wyoming hanged Tom Horn in 1903 on a machine specifically designed so that no human being would have to feel responsible for killing him. Which, given what Tom Horn did for a living, is about as tidy as history ever gets. He was born in Missouri in 1860 and left home at sixteen. He ended up in Arizona working for the Army as a packer, scout and interpreter under the chief of scouts Al Sieber during the Apache campaigns, and he was with the column that brought Geronimo in. He also won a steer roping championship out there. Years later he wrote an autobiography that inflated most of it considerably, which was standard for the genre. In the early 1890s he worked for the Pinkerton agency out of Denver, running down train robbers. He was extremely good at the tracking part. He was reportedly much less interested in the part where you bring a man in alive. Then he went north to Wyoming and hired on with the big cattle outfits as a stock detective. The job title was a formality. What the cattlemen were paying for was for suspected rustlers to stop existing, and Horn delivered that with a rifle, at long range, frequently from a couple hundred yards, with nobody around to see it. Historians credit him with the 1900 killings of Matt Rash and Isom Dart in Brown's Park and suspect him in several others. The line most often attributed to him is, "Killing men is my specialty. I look on it as a business proposition, and I think I have a corner on the market." Whether he actually said it is argued about. It was his reputation regardless, and he did nothing to discourage it. Then on July 18, 1901, a 14 year old boy named Willie Nickell was shot dead by a gate at Iron Mountain. Willie was big for his age, and he was wearing his father's coat and hat. His father, Kels Nickell, was running sheep in cattle country and was in a poisonous feud with his neighbors. Nearly everyone who has looked at it since has reached the same conclusion, which is that whoever fired thought he was shooting the father. Six months later, a deputy US marshal named Joe LeFors got Horn into an office in Cheyenne to talk about a job in Montana. He got Horn drinking. He flattered him, and let him brag, and kept nudging. Behind a door left open a crack in the next room sat a deputy and a court stenographer named Charles Ohnhaus, writing down every word. Somewhere in that transcript is the sentence, "It was the best shot that I ever made and the dirtiest trick I ever done." That was the case. Everything else the prosecution had was circumstantial. He was tried in an election year, in a state that had finally had enough of cattle barons buying outcomes, and the jury convicted him. Here is the complicated part. Most historians who have gone back through the evidence now believe Tom Horn probably did not kill Willie Nickell. There were other suspects with better motive and better opportunity. The physical case was weak, and the confession was a drunk man performing for a lawman who was steering the conversation. He had certainly killed people. He was very likely hanged for the wrong one. He got out of the jail in August 1903 with a pistol taken off a guard, and then could not figure out how the pistol worked. A man on the street who happened to know that model took him back into custody. So on November 20, 1903, one day short of his 43rd birthday, they walked him out to the gallows in Cheyenne. That gallows had been built by a local architect named James Julian. Julian had come through the Civil War, and he had thought a long time about what it does to a man to be the one personally responsible for killing another. So he engineered the person out of it. The condemned man stood on the trapdoor. His own weight tipped a lever that opened a valve on a water tank. The water ran out of the tank into a pan below, and as it drained the balance shifted, and when enough had run the mechanism pulled the bolt and the floor opened. Nobody pulled a lever. Nobody gave a signal. The man walked onto the platform, started the clock with his own body, and then stood there listening to water run. For Tom Horn it took about 35 seconds. A newspaper of the day described the machine as a device that simply compelled the condemned to commit suicide. Tom Horn had spent his career being the instrument that wealthy men used so that they would never have to be the ones who pulled the trigger. Wyoming killed him with a machine built on exactly the same idea.

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These two Iranians were hanged this morning: Omid Behzad. Pouria Safvat. The regime told their family not to talk to Media, keep quiet if you don’t want them to die. And now Two lives, ended. No announced arrest date. No trial date. Just "confessions." We know exactly how those confessions are taken. The charge: working for Mossad. That's what they say about everyone who demands freedom. Mossad. CIA. The enemy. It's always the same script, label them a spy so the world looks away. When they send assassins in front of my house, they use the same script. These young people just wanted to have a normal life, to have freedom. Getting hanged for protesting. Getting hanged for demanding freedom. This has become the new normal and the world is watching it happen. We don't deserve to be behind bars for wanting to be free. We don't deserve to open our doors and find assassins and killers standing outside. #StopExecutionsInIran#

The attorney for the woman who allegedly hanged her 2 year old child from a rafter in her basement says she was “having a psychotic episode.” The mother, Corie Walsh, was reportedly obsessed with the Lindsay Clancy trial. Women who no longer want to deal with their kids now believe they have the blueprint to murdering them and getting away with it.

Before the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged Majid Adineh, they gave him one last chance to speak to his family and his final message to his mother, he exposed the“confession” broadcast by the regime. Majid was arrested during Iran’s January uprising and accused of killing security forces. No independent lawyer. No access to the media. Just a forced confession, and then the gallows. They silenced him while he was alive. His final message exposed what they tried to bury. #StopExecutionsInIran#

Urgent: Iranian kickboxer is going to be hanged very soon after supreme court ruling! I beg everyone: listen to his brother’s voice in this video and help us stop the Islamic Republic from executing him. Benyamin Naghdi, is only 26-year-old, and he is a champion from Shiraz. His brother says Benyamin wanted only one thing: a free Iran. He also says that for every person the Islamic Republic kills, others will rise to continue their path. The regime wants these voices to disappear. It wants to silence Benyamin forever. Please be his voice. Be his family’s voice. Before it’s too late. Call your leaders to demand Islamic Republic to stop killing him. #SaveBenyamin# #StopExecutionsInIran#

BREAKING: The Islamic regime in Iran has hanged 20-year-old Arvin Khairkhah for taking part in the anti-regime protests in January that ended with a massacre of 40 000 protesters. Before the hanging, he told his family: “Don’t let them forget me. We took to the streets for the freedom of our homeland. Don’t let the path we took be extinguished”