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On December 20, 1786, as she awaited her execution, Hannah's anxiety grew worse, and she spent most of the day of her hanging in tears. At her execution, she thanked the sheriff for his kindness as she stepped forward to be hanged.
20 Δεκ 2021 · Stepping up to the gallows, witnesses said Eunice’s killer, Hannah Ocuish, appeared afraid—seeming to silently plead for help with her eyes—as the realization hit that she was about to die at only 12 years old.
20 Δεκ 2008 · On December 20, 1786, the Sheriff of New London, Conn., led a distraught 12-year-old girl to the gallows, placed a rope around her neck, and hanged her in front of a crowd of spectators. The girl was Hannah Ocuish, a young member of the Pequot nation.
18 Δεκ 2022 · in the case of Hannah Ocuish, born on March 1774, she was a 12 year old Pequot Native American girl with an intellectual disability, who was hanged on December 20, 1786, in New London,...
On December 20, 1786, Hannah Ocuish, a Native American, was hanged in Connecticut for the murder of another child. She was the youngest girl to be executed in America, at just 12 years and 9 months old.
20 Δεκ 2018 · Today in 1786, in the town of New London, Connecticut, twelve-year-old Hannah Occuish was hanged after bring found guilty of the capital crime of murdering a six-year-old girl. Hannah’s execution marked the tragic end to a short life full of trials and tribulations.
A 12-year-old girl, Hannah Ocuish, was executed for murder in 1786. Though she confessed to killing six-year-old Eunice Bolles, questions have persisted about whether her prosecution was fair. Was it justice or racism?
