Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. John Snowden was hanged at the old jail in Annapolis on February 28, 1919, with the City of Annapolis under martial law.
John Snowden was given one last chance to confess to the murder, but he said, "I could not leave this world with a lie in my mouth."
John Snowden has the dubious distinction of being the last man executed in the City of Annapolis by hanging.
His execution and hanging are not what you learn while taking a Historic Annapolis tour.
If you visit the Visit Annapols & Anne Arundel County Visitors Center kiosk, you will not get any brochures on this hanging.
This is the anniversary that most Annapolitans, Marylanders, and Americans would prefer not to remember.
This pardon came 80 years after John Snowden was executed. The story is not unfamiliar in American history; a Black man is accused of assaulting and murdering a white woman. An all white-jury convicts him, and he is sentenced to death.
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