Category:Haymarket Eight
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Eight men were convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder based on allegedly being associated with the making of speeches and writing articles that allegedly encouraged an unnamed man to throw a bomb at the police in Chicago's Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886. The bomb killed eight men and wounded 67 others. One of the Haymarket Eight committed suicide. Four others were executed in 1887. The remaining three were pardoned in 1893 on the basis that their convictions were a miscarriage of justice.
