Wednesday 6th of May 1863 (-) — Murderer John Shirley is executed by hanging
Three thousand men, women and children watched Shirley's hanging on the open ground south of the guardhouse.
Monday 20th of April 1908 (x) — Serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram is court-martialed for stealing government-property and is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment
Saturday 31st of July 1954 (-) — Murderer Bernard O'Brien is executed by hanging
Tuesday 1st of March 1955 (-) — Murderer Chastine Beverly is executed by hanging
Tuesday 1st of March 1955 (-) — Murderer James Riggins is executed by hanging
The drop didn't break Riggins' neck, he slowly suffocated for eighteen minutes and forty seconds.
Tuesday 1st of March 1955 (-) — Murderer Louis Suttles is executed by hanging
Thursday 14th of February 1957 (-) — Murderer Winfred Moore is executed by hanging
Thursday 14th of February 1957 (-) — Murderer Thomas Edwards is executed by hanging
Wednesday 3rd of April 1957 (-) — Murderer Ernest Ranson is executed by hanging
Wednesday 23rd of July 1958 (-) — Mass murderer Abraham Thomas is executed by hanging
On 23 February 1954 Thomas shot and killed 28-year-old sergeant Lafayette Bennett, 32-year-old corporal Edward Peters and their German girlfriends Walburga Wenderoth and Anna Weigel in Gersthofen, Germany. Then Thomas used an axe to bludgeon, hack and mutilate the bodies.
Wednesday 23rd of September 1959 (-) — Murderer John Day is executed by hanging
Day had been under the death sentence since 1951 and was hanged for the murder of Lee Mak Chun in Seoul on 30 December 1950. Serving in Korea, Day had made sexual advances to Chun's wife. When Chun came to her defense Day shot him dead.
Thursday 13th of April 1961 (-) — Rapist John Bennett is executed by hanging
Bennett was the last person executed by the U.S. military.
Tuesday 17th of November 1970 (x) — Start of the trial against American hero and mass murderer William Calley
Testimony revealed that Calley had ordered the men of 1st Platoon, Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry of the 23rd Infantry Division to kill everyone in the village.
Wednesday 31st of March 1971 (x) — American hero and mass murderer William Calley is sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labor for the premeditated murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre
The next day President Richard Nixon ordered Calley transferred from Leavenworth Prison to house arrest at Fort Benning, pending appeal. Calley served only three and a half years of house arrest in his quarters at Fort Benning.
