One of those took place last month, when six Taliban prisoners were hanged, along with another eight criminals.
Her young client was, she said, "lumped in with all that – a scapegoat they want to hang along with a multiple murderer on the same day, same jail".
Contemporary Mexican paintings by Manuel Velásquez of Veracruz and Gilberto Sanchez of San Miguel, among others, are hung along with carved masks and various folk-art pieces.
He left before Mr. Saro-Wiwa was hanged, along with eight other activists, but said that Shell had pleaded with the military authorities to spare him, "to no avail".
A number of congregants on Sunday recalled that Denmark Vesey, the church's founder, was hanged along with over 30 of his supporters in 1822 for orchestrating a failed slave revolt.
In the back of the chapel, photographs from decades past hang, along with a list of parishioners who served in war and the sea captains who founded the church.
Mr. Nordan's fiction is characterized by a tall-tale outrageousness that shades seamlessly into magic realism (llamas sing, the dead can share narrative responsibilities, a wayward elephant is hanged), along with recurring characters and places, in particular the fictional Delta town of Arrow Catcher, Miss.
We see Krasner, in 1942, exhibiting in a now legendary show organized by the brilliant and idiosyncratic painter John Graham, where her work hung along with that of Picasso, Braque, Bonnard, de Kooning and Pollock — whom she met after being told that this man she had never heard of and would eventually marry was going to be in the exhibition.
In the end, thirteen slaves were burned at the stake, seventeen hanged (along with a white prostitute who gave birth to a black man's child), and hundreds imprisoned, until, Lepore writes, the dungeon under City Hall resembled "the hull of a slave ship".
Vesey was put on trial, convicted and hanged along with other organizers of the rebellion.
