Camp Logan mutiny of Black soldiers in Houston
The Camp Logan mutiny took place when 156 African-American soldiers in segregated Houston, Texas clashed with police after officers assaulted and arrested two of them. 19 were later executed and 41 were given life sentences.
Sacco and Vanzetti executed
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti died in Massachusetts's electric chair for a robbery-murder the evidence never tied them to, after seven years of worldwide protest. Fifty years later the state's governor proclaimed their trial unfair; the anarchists' names remain shorthand for execution as political punishment.
Reality Winner sentenced to 63 months for NSA leak
Air Force veteran and NSA contractor Reality Winner was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison — the longest sentence ever imposed under the Espionage Act for an unauthorized release of information to the press, for leaking a single document on Russian interference in the 2016 election.