Reviewing a trial, 13 decades later: State officials must decide if John Donahoe received a fair trial in 1876 ? a year before the man authorities labeled a Molly Maguire was hanged for murder.

From: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) | Date: April 16, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Mike Urban

Apr. 16--John Donahoe's life ended on the gallows of the old Carbon County Prison nearly 130 years ago, but the debate over the fairness of his 1876 trial is very much alive. The state Board of Pardons is considering whether to recommend that Gov. Ed Rendell grant Donahoe a posthumous pardon. "Yellow Jack" Donahoe was one of 20 men executed in northeast Pennsylvania's hard coal region in the late 1870s, all purported members of a secret society...

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