One place nobody wanted to be on April 25, 1901, was the front rows of spectators at the New Mexico hanging of Black Jack Ketchum. Ketchum was a notorious outlaw and feared gunman, but he was an unimaginative robber, always robbing the same stagecoach or train over and over again in the same location. He was wounded with buckshot at a poor attempt on August 16, 1899 in Arizona Territory and taken to Santa Fe to face trial, where he was easily convicted and sentenced to hang. When the da


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