Editing David Herold (section)

=== Trial and Execution ===
The next month, Herold, Mary Surratt, and six other conspirators were held before a military tribunal. The trial began on May 10 and were charged for the conspiracy to kill President Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward on May 12. The trial lasted until June 30 when all the defendants were found guilty. While Dr. Mudd, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin, and Ned Spangler (an employee at Ford's Theater) were sentenced to be taken to another prison in the Dry Tortugas, Herold, along with Surratt, Lewis Powell and George Atzerodt, were sentenced to death by hanging. On July 7, they were hanged in Fort Lesley J. McNair. After strangling for five minutes, they strangled to death. His mother and five sisters interred David in an unmarked grave, next to his father Adam at the Congressional Cemetery.
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