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Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs. Missouri Executive Order 44 (known as the Mormon Extermination Order) was a state executive order issued by Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs on October 27, 1838, in response to the Battle of Crooked River.
In Mormonism, a penalty is a specified punishment for breaking an oath of secrecy after receiving the Nauvoo endowment ceremony. Adherents promised they would submit to execution in specific ways should they reveal certain contents of the ceremony.
Mormon historian Juanita Brooks believes that the letter demonstrates that Young "did not order the massacre, and would have prevented it if he could." [14] Brooks writes, "While Brigham Young and other church authorities did not specifically order the massacre, they did preach sermons and set up social conditions that made it possible." Brooks ...
The scene at Lee's execution by Utah firing squad on March 23, 1877. Lee is seated, next to his coffin. 1877 article on John D. Lee's execution. [48] Further investigations were cut short by the American Civil War in 1861, [49] but proceeded in 1871 when prosecutors obtained the affidavit of militia member Philip Klingensmith.
The persecutions began in the 1830s, when the state of Missouri officially opposed their presence in the state, engaged with them in the Mormon War, and expelled them in 1838 with an Extermination Order. During the Mormon War, prominent Mormon apostle David W. Patten died of wounds suffered after leading Mormon insurgents in an attack against ...
An extermination order is an order given by a government sanctioning mass removal or death. The term is often associated with genocide. Extermination orders were issued in conjunction with the following events: Armenian genocide; California Genocide; The Holocaust, which did not have an extermination order, involved the extermination of ...
South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection on Friday during the state’s first execution in 13 years. Owens, 46, was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing a ...
The 1838 Mormon War, also known as the Missouri Mormon War, was a conflict between Mormons and their neighbors in Missouri. Early in the third decade of the nineteenth century, members of the Church of Christ (Latter Day Saint) began to migrate into Jackson County, Missouri. Their religious and political beliefs and practices differed from ...