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Closing the Slaughterhouse

Closing the Slaughterhouse

"Closing the Slaughterhouse" is the definitive history of Virginia's death penalty and its eventual abolition.

2022

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Child Erased

In 1951, a little boy was found dead in Goochland County, Virginia. And that was just the beginning of this tragedy that continues today

17 min readMar 6, 2021

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Former Enslaved Virginia Man Considered the ‘Last of the Pioneers’

Pharaoh “Ferry” Jackson Chesney eye-witnessed and chronicled almost a century of political, economic, and geographic turmoil before he died…

9 min readMay 16, 2023

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Former Enslaved Virginia Man Considered the ‘Last of the Pioneers’

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Once railroaded onto Louisiana’s death row, wrongfully convicted Virginia Man is asking for help

Michael Graham spent 14-years on death row in Angola Prison for a crime he never committed.

3 min readFeb 20, 2023

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Once railroaded onto Louisiana’s death row, wrongfully convicted Virginia Man is asking for help

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Sentenced to death at age 13

“Past criminal tendencies” convinces a Boston judge in 1837 to hand down the extreme sentence

4 min readDec 21, 2022

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Sentenced to death at age 13

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The Devil’s Business:

The Ugly Consequences of Bestiality in Colonial America Resulted in the First Juvenile Execution

6 min readDec 8, 2022

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The Devil’s Business:

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Lessons from History

The tragic true story of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire

On the cold night of November 28, 1942, about 1,000 Bostonians jammed into the wildly popular Cocoanut Grove nightclub to both take their…

10 min readOct 8, 2022

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The tragic true story of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire

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Smile: The Mystery of the Gun in the Typewriter

In 1995, a loaded gun was found inside an inmate’s modified typewriter on Virginia’s death row. How did it get there?

8 min readJun 25, 2022

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Smile: The Mystery of the Gun in the Typewriter

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Gone in 60 Seconds

Joe Munch holds the record for the shortest prison sentence ever

4 min readMay 27, 2022

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Lessons from History

Eating our Young

The Hanging of 12-Year-old Hannah Ocuish

6 min readNov 8, 2021

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Eating our Young

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Hangman With a Heart

Was Phil Hanna an angel of mercy or just another cog in the machinery of state-sponsored death?

4 min readSep 28, 2021

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Hangman With a Heart

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Dale M. Brumfield

Dale M. Brumfield

Book Author

Anti-death penalty advocate, cultural archaeologist, “American Grotesk” historyteller and author of 12 books. More at www.dalebrumfield.net.

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