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Mota Coqueiro ou A Pena de Morte (in English: Mota Coqueiro or The Capital Punishment) is a 1877 novel by Brazilian journalist and writer José do Patrocínio. It is a semi-fictitious account of the life of the farmer Manuel da Mota Coqueiro also known as The Beast of Macabu who was sentenced to hanging in 1852 for a crime he has not committed and executed March 6 1855 in Macaé RJ.

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