True Crime S4 Episode 22: The Case of Lavinia Fisher

Podcast: The Housewife Did It · Mary and Katie

Opublikowano: 2026-06-16

On February 4th, 1820, the Constitutional Court of South Carolina sentenced Lavinia and John Fisher to be hanged. Two weeks later, the two stood on the gallows in front of the Old City Jail in Charleston, having handled the news of their execution very differently. John allowed the Reverend Richard Furman, a local minister, to read a letter he had written, in which he pointed out that he had accepted Christ into his life and could not be executed without telling the full truth. Which was that he was innocent of any crimes, and that he hoped God would show...