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Judge Parker, better known as THE HANGING JUDGE, was responsible for the hanging deaths of more thn 80 convicts in the Fort Smith area. The old court house where he passed his judgements, and where the hangings were carried out, is now a museum. Among other things, you can hear the pounding of Judge Parker’s gavel in the old court room, and the hangman exhibit, which is supposedly i the same location as the old gallows, has nooses that sway on their own when there is no wind. Parker is said to walk the halls, as are the eighty plus men he sentenced to hang.

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