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TIL George Spencer, a one-eyed servant who was hanged in 1642 Connecticut on charges of sodomy with an animal after a malformed, one-eyed piglet was born, is considered the first wrongful execution and first verifiable false confession in U.S. history. Spencer was given a posthumous pardon in 2015.

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