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Dale M. Brumfield

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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

Dale M. Brumfield

Dale M. Brumfield

Stories

Pinned

Dale M. Brumfield

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Mar 6, 2021

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

Child Erased

Dale M. Brumfield

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Aug 17, 2025

Killing Billy

Note: This is one of hundreds of stories I am compiling for an upcoming book project that documents every enslaved person legally executed…

Killing Billy

Dale M. Brumfield

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May 16, 2023

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…

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

Dale M. Brumfield

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Feb 20, 2023

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.

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

Dale M. Brumfield

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Dec 21, 2022

Sentenced to death at age 13

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

Sentenced to death at age 13

Dale M. Brumfield

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Dec 8, 2022

The Devil’s Business:

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

The Devil’s Business:

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Lessons from History

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Dale M. Brumfield

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Oct 8, 2022

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…

The tragic true story of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire

Dale M. Brumfield

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Jun 25, 2022

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?

Smile: The Mystery of the Gun in the Typewriter

Dale M. Brumfield

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May 27, 2022

Gone in 60 Seconds

Joe Munch holds the record for the shortest prison sentence ever

Gone in 60 Seconds

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Lessons from History

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Dale M. Brumfield

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Nov 8, 2021

Eating our Young

The Hanging of 12-Year-old Hannah Ocuish

Eating our Young

Dale M. Brumfield

Dale M. Brumfield

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

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