Judicial proceedings against the conspirators of the…
April 1792 CE
Lieutenant Colonel Freire de Andrade, Tiradentes, José Álvares Maciel, and eight others had been condemned to the gallows.
Seven more had been condemned to perpetual banishment in Africa, the rest have been acquitted.
Following the trial, Queen Maria I had commuted the sentences of capital punishment to perpetual banishment for all except those whose activities involved aggravated circumstances.
That is the case for Tiradentes, who takes full responsibility for the conspiracy movement and is imprisoned in Rio de Janeiro, where he is hanged on April 21, 1792.
Afterwards, his body is torn into pieces, which are sent to Vila Rica in the captaincy of Minas Gerais, to be displayed in the places where he had propagated his revolutionary ideas.
The anniversary of his death will be celebrated as a national holiday in Brazil.
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