Judge Isaac Parker, known as "Hanging Judge" of Fort Smith, Arkansas, gave this many men the death sentence.
201
193
82
156
156, although only 79 men were actually executed; the rest had their sentences reduced or commuted. In addition, he sentenced 4 women to hang, but none of them were executed. Ironically, Parker was quoted in the St. Louis Republic, Sept. 1, 1896, as saying, "I never hung a man. It is the law.