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While Cicero was initially hailed for his role in saving the state, he did not accrue all the credit, to his dismay. Cato was also hailed as having roused the senate to act against the conspirators. [62] There were some turns against Cicero's actions in the immediate aftermath of the summary executions.
Cicero, having executed members of the Catilinarian conspiracy four years before without formal trial, and having had a public falling-out with Clodius, was clearly the intended target of the law. Cicero argued that the senatus consultum ultimum indemnified him from punishment, and he attempted to gain the support of the senators and consuls ...
Cicero, having executed members of the Catiline conspiracy four years previously without formal trial, was clearly the intended target. [76] Furthermore, many believed that Clodius acted in concert with the triumvirate who feared that Cicero would seek to abolish many of Caesar's accomplishments while consul the year before.
A 1st century AD bust of Cicero, one of the principal sources alleging Catiline's involvement in this fictitious conspiracy. He later exposed, as consul, the real Catilinarian conspiracy in 63 BC. The inciting incident for the conspiracy was the election of two consuls-designate for 65 BC, Publius Autronius Paetus and Publius Cornelius Sulla ...
Cicero Denounces Catiline, fresco by Cesare Maccari, 1882–1888. The Catilinarian orations (Latin: Marci Tullii Ciceronis orationes in Catilinam; also simply the Catilinarians) are four speeches given in 63 BC by Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of the year's consuls. The speeches are all related to the discovery, investigation, and suppression of ...
Kevin Cooper, 57, is about to file a last-ditch appeal with Gov. Jerry Brown of California to spare his life. End to California execution moratorium raises controversial death penalty case Skip to ...
Two men have been charged after a man was “executed” as he dined alone at the counter of a California restaurant, prosecutors said. Two men, Phillip Pasco Clark, 33, and Santana Jermaine Kelly ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of California since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia , the following 13 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of California. [ 1 ]