Daniel Perry Sampson

Daniel Perry Sampson was a Black labourer in Halifax who became embroiled in a sensational murder case in the early 1930s. Wrongfully convicted of killing two white boys, he was hanged in 1935, becoming the last person executed in Halifax. His case has gained renewed attention nearly a century later as legal groups seek to exonerate him, citing evidence of a forged confession and systemic racism in the judicial process of his time.