Editing Breaking wheel (section)

===Colonial United States===
In [[New York (state)|New York]], at least one [[Slavery in the colonial United States|slave]] was executed on the breaking wheel following their involvement in a failed [[New York Slave Revolt of 1712|slave rebellion]] in 1712. Between 1730 and 1754, eleven slaves in [[Louisiana (New France)|French Louisiana]], who had either killed, assaulted or escaped from their masters, were killed via the breaking wheel.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Executions in the U.S. 1608–2002: The Espy File |url=http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/ESPYstate.pdf |access-date=25 February 2010 |publisher=Death Penalty Information Center}}</ref> On 7 June 1757, the French colonist [[Jean Baptiste Baudreau II|Jean Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline II]] was executed on a breaking wheel in front of the [[St. Louis Cathedral (New Orleans)|St. Louis Cathedral]] in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana (New France)|Louisiana]] by the French colonial authorities.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}<ref>''[[New Orleans Times-Picayune]]'', 6/11/23, pp. 1B-2B</ref>