1881: Po’olua, “darkened in my mind”
This date in 1881 saw the hanging of a native Hawaiian named Po’olua for a homicide of domestic jealousy tinged by almost tragic remorse. This case is described in the 1991 essay “A Short History of...
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This date in 1929 saw the hanging of a Shakespeare-quoting, suicidal kidnapper for “the most brutal murder in the history of Hawaii”. It was among the last civil executions in Hawaii. As detailed in...
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1947: Garlon Mickles, the last hanged in Hawaii
Seattle Times, April 22, 1947. On this date in 1947, U.S. Army Private Garlon Mickles was hanged at a place called “execution gulch” in Honolulu’s Schofield Barracks. Mickles had enlisted three years...
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