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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: American political bosses from Kentucky, Murder in Kentucky, People executed by Kentucky, Prisoners and detainees of Kentucky, Beauchamp-Sharp Tragedy, Jereboam O. Beauchamp, Rainey Bethea, Chris Henry, Standard Gravure shooting, Heath High School shooting, Mel Ignatow, Thomas Rhea, East Carter High School shooting, Tom Payne, John Henry Whallen, Bloody Monday, Atlantis Plastics shooting, Louisville riots of 1968, Trinity murders, Ashland tragedy, Harold McQueen, Jr., Russel Earl Winstead, List of people executed in Kentucky, Felony murder rule. Excerpt: The Beauchamp-Sharp Tragedy (sometimes called the Kentucky Tragedy) was the murder of Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp (pronounced ). As a young lawyer, Beauchamp had been an admirer of Sharp until Sharp allegedly fathered an illegitimate child with a woman named Anna Cooke. Sharp denied paternity of the stillborn child. Later, Beauchamp began a relationship with Cooke, who agreed to marry him on the condition that he kill Sharp. Beauchamp and Cooke married in June 1824, and in the early morning of November 7, 1825, Beauchamp murdered Sharp at Sharp's home in Frankfort, Kentucky. An investigation soon revealed Beauchamp as the killer, and he was apprehended at his home in Glasgow, Kentucky, four days after the murder. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by hanging. He was granted a stay of execution to allow him to pen a justification for his actions. Anna Cooke-Beauchamp was tried for complicity in the murder, but was acquitted for lack of evidence. Nevertheless, her devotion to Beauchamp prompted her to stay in his cell with him, where the two attempted a double suicide by drinking laudanum shortly before the execution. This attempt failed. On the morning of the execution, the couple again attempted suicide, this time by st...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781156119860
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156119863
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jun 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: American Political Bosses from Kentucky, Murder in Kentucky, People Executed by Kentucky
  • Width: 189 mm


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