Documenting and Analyzing the History of Federal Executions
Smoker Mankiller
William Short was hunting near Smoker Mankiller’s home in Indian Territory when Mankiller shot him on September 1, 1874. Short survived the shooting, only to be tracked down and stabbed to death by Mankiller.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, July 15, 1875
Mankiller was arrested by U.S. Marshals. At trial before Judge Parker, he was convicted and sentenced to death on June 26, 1875.
Smoker Mankiller was hanged on September 3, 1875, along with five other men convicted of separate murders.
I am a sociologist and death penalty scholar at the State University of New York at Geneseo. I am also a Pittsburgh native. My present research focuses on the history of the death penalty in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), Pa.
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