• Thumbnail for Public execution
    has media related to Public execution. A public execution is a form of capital punishment which "members of the general public may voluntarily attend...
    23 KB (2,440 words) - 15:53, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Public executions in Iran
    In Iran, public executions occurred regularly during the Qajar dynasty but declined with the Persian Constitutional Revolution and became a rare occurrence...
    10 KB (1,045 words) - 07:14, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hanging
    Hanging (redirect from Execution by hanging)
    Middle Ages, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer's Odyssey...
    105 KB (11,410 words) - 23:14, 21 September 2024
  • Public Execution is a Mouse and the Traps retrospective album that has been released in both LP and CD formats. The LP has an unusually large number of...
    3 KB (360 words) - 01:04, 11 October 2024
  • China in the late 20th century. The performing of executions by decapitation (beheading), in public, led to a central square in the Kingdom's capital...
    62 KB (5,439 words) - 07:24, 14 October 2024
  • allegedly carries out public executions, which, if true, makes North Korea one of the last four countries that still performs public executions, the other three...
    34 KB (2,187 words) - 18:34, 30 September 2024
  • "A Public Execution" is a song performed and recorded by the American band Mouse and the Traps, also credited simply as Mouse, written by Ronny "Mouse"...
    4 KB (448 words) - 15:59, 26 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Execution of Charles I
    30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists...
    47 KB (5,972 words) - 14:02, 5 October 2024
  • carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and is commonly referred...
    197 KB (19,921 words) - 23:28, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saigon Execution
    Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. It depicts South...
    19 KB (2,194 words) - 05:36, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Execution of Louis XVI
    abstained. Ultimately, they condemned him to death by a simple majority. The execution by guillotine was performed by Charles-Henri Sanson, then High Executioner...
    29 KB (4,015 words) - 14:36, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Capital punishment in the United States
    federal executions. The last public execution in the U.S. was that of Roscoe Jackson in Galena, Missouri, on May 27, 1937. It was the last execution in the...
    201 KB (20,741 words) - 00:08, 21 October 2024
  • method of execution worldwide, used in about 70 countries, with execution by firing squad being one particular form. In most countries, execution by a firing...
    12 KB (1,276 words) - 05:34, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Execution of Saddam Hussein
    video of his execution, showing him being led to the gallows, and ending after the hangman's noose was placed over his head. International public controversy...
    37 KB (3,680 words) - 23:25, 24 October 2024
  • least 977 executions in 2015, at least 567 executions in 2016, and at least 507 executions in 2017. In 2018 there were at least 249 executions, at least...
    81 KB (10,064 words) - 18:34, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Guillotine
    /ˈɡijətin/ GHEE-yə-teen) is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted...
    41 KB (4,666 words) - 19:56, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Executioner
    Executioner (redirect from Public hangman)
    and respected by the public. In Japan, executioners have been held in contempt as part of the burakumin class (today executions in Japan are not carried...
    12 KB (1,265 words) - 02:25, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scaffold (execution site)
    stage-like site for public executions. The execution was practised in public places. The "public spectacle" character of the execution was meant to deter...
    986 bytes (105 words) - 04:18, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Capital punishment in New Zealand
    1840. It was first carried out with a public hanging in Victoria Street, Auckland in 1842, while the last execution occurred in 1957 at Mount Eden Prison...
    40 KB (4,475 words) - 12:34, 26 September 2024
  • A public execution in Dębica was carried out in 1946 when three members of the Polish anti-communist National Armed Forces (NSZ) organization, Józef Grębosz...
    8 KB (1,080 words) - 22:11, 14 August 2024
  • cliff at the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill, was used for public executions. Murderers and traitors, if convicted by the quaestores parricidii...
    6 KB (587 words) - 20:00, 21 September 2024
  • Death by crushing or pressing is a method of execution that has a history during which the techniques used varied greatly from place to place, generally...
    11 KB (1,460 words) - 16:36, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crucifixion of Jesus
    several theories have been put forward. One is that as a place of public execution, Calvary may have been strewn with the skulls of abandoned victims...
    120 KB (13,825 words) - 15:32, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Morning of the Streltsy Execution
    Morning of the Streltsy Execution is a painting by Vasily Ivanovich Surikov, painted in 1881. It illustrates the public execution after the Streltsy's failed...
    1 KB (74 words) - 00:56, 26 August 2024
  • were public: indeed part of the punishment was the delivery from hangman to surgeons at the gallows following public execution, and later public exhibition...
    15 KB (1,684 words) - 16:33, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eugen Weidmann
    Eugen Weidmann (category 20th-century executions by France)
    killer who was executed by guillotine in France in June 1939, the last public execution in France. Weidmann was born in Frankfurt am Main to the family of...
    9 KB (1,099 words) - 15:03, 22 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Capital punishment in the United Kingdom
    recommended an end to public executions. This proposal was included in the Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868. From that date executions in Great Britain...
    92 KB (11,561 words) - 18:52, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert-François Damiens
    Robert-François Damiens (category 18th-century executions by France)
    attempted assassination of King Louis XV in 1757 culminated in his public execution. He was the last person to be executed in France by dismemberment,...
    19 KB (2,085 words) - 10:02, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Capital punishment by country
    alleged 'collaborators' in public execution". The New Arab. 25 May 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017. "Hamas kills three men in execution partially streamed on...
    261 KB (10,576 words) - 01:52, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for HM Prison Leicester
    triple executions, in 1829 and 1877, and two double executions, in 1903 and 1944. Executions at Leicester Prison were originally carried out publicly, typically...
    19 KB (2,478 words) - 20:42, 8 September 2024