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Governor of Grenada

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Governor Houston orders fourteen executions from the condemned group

đź“… 1 July 1796

After forty-seven prisoners were sentenced, Governor Alexander Houston declined to execute all of them at once and selected fourteen he considered “most notorious” for execution on 1 July 1796. The...