General Yamashita and Justice Rutledge

At 2:30 in the morning on February 23, 1946, in a small country village south of Manila in the Philippines, Japanese Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita was told, "It's time." Not three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court had denied his request for review—with Justices Wiley Rutledge and Frank Murphy dissenting—General Yamashita, the "Tiger of Malaya," was hanged.