Much to everyone's surprise, Capt. Henry Rodgers of the Martha Jane was convicted and
executed on 9/12/1857 for nothing more than torturing to death a single crewman.

          Wasn't that a most cruel usage,
          Without a friend to interpose?
          How they whipped and mangle, gagged and strangled
          The British sailor, Andrew Rose.
  
                  "Andrew Rose," c.1857 in A Ballad History of England, Roy Palmer

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