Daily Quiz for September 8, 2014

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. . . I favor the abolition of capital punishment, too."