On this day: May 23

1. 1918
   Victim Joseph Maggio · Axeman of New Orleans

   An Italian-American grocer.

2. 1918
   Victim Catherine Maggio · Axeman of New Orleans

   Joseph Maggio's wife.

3. 1927
   Other Coroner's inquest, Bath · Bath School disaster

   A Clinton County coroner's jury of six local men heard more than 50 witnesses in Bath. It found that Kehoe planned and carried out the bombings alone and cleared the school board of wrongdoing.

4. 1958
   Court / trial Lancaster County court, Lincoln · Charles Starkweather

   Tried for the murder of Robert Jensen, Starkweather was convicted after 22 hours of jury deliberation and sentenced to death on May 23, 1958. Fugate was convicted as an accomplice that November.

5. 1983
   Victim Cheryl Lee Wims · Gary Ridgway
6. 2019
   Prison Florida State Prison (death row and execution) · Bobby Joe Long

   After 34 years on death row, Long was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on May 23, 2019.