Roger Casement is hanged
1916 · Event
The knighted humanitarian who exposed the Congo's horrors is hanged in Pentonville for landing from a German submarine to aid the Rising — his reputation attacked at trial with leaked diaries. The last of the Rising's executions, and the most argued-over since.
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