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GHENT, WV (WVNS) — Public executions are often viewed as a thing of the past, and as they started to disappear as a whole, they also became far less common in West Virginia. So, when did the last public hanging take place in the Mountain State? According to the West Virginia Encyclopedia, the last public […]

CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.

Charleston, W.Va. – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV Encyclopedia) – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.

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Dale M. Brumfield The hanging of John F. Morgan is well known across Jackson County. But what is perhaps less known is the prominent role “spectacle executions” like Morgan’s played not just in West Virginia but throughout the entire American South. On a freezing Dec. 16, 1897, a New York Sun reporter gathered with anywhere from 6,000-10,000 others in a 10-acre lot in Ripley, W.Va. They had arrived on foot, on horseback and in wagons from Calhoun, Mason, Kanawha and Wood counties on rutte...