Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated painting by Mary Sherwood Wright Jones depicts the 1825 hanging of Peter Diamond. Before executioners could carry out ...

One of the mysteries of the 1825 murder case of Peter Diamond is the spelling of his last name. Some newspaper reports of the time and later histories related by eyewitnesses are the only sources of ...

On the morning of Oct. 14, 1825, Peter Diamond waited in his cell for his executioners to escort him to be hanged for the murder of Orange Mitchel. The spot for the hanging was in the area of Fourth ...