April 26th, 1901. Sheriff Salome Garcia of Union County,

 April 26th, 1901. Sheriff Salome Garcia of Union County, New Mexico, tightens the noose around the neck of Thomas Edward Ketchum also known as Black Jack Ketchum.


 Black Jack Ketchum was the only person ever hanged in Union County, New Mexico Territory (now Union County, New Mexico). He was also the only person who suffered capital punishment for the offense of "felonious assault upon a railway train" in the New Mexico Territory.

 The execution by hanging was botched; he was decapitated because the executioner used a rope that was too long.

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