A Place of Execution is a crime novel by Val McDermid, first published in 1999. The novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2001 Dilys Award,...

Place of execution may refer to: The site at which capital punishment is carried out A Place of Execution, a crime novel by Val McDermid first published...

sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and...

The execution of Alan Eugene Miller (January 20, 1965 – September 26, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by nitrogen hypoxia. It was the second...

execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein took place on 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of...

picture, the execution is taking place upon a raised wooden platform similar to those on which executions of royalty and nobility had taken place in the French...

The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (July 4, 1965 – January 25, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first...

interpretations of the name and its origin. Jerome considered it a place of execution by beheading (locum decollatorum), Pseudo-Tertullian describes it as a place resembling...

Commons has media related to Public execution. A public execution is a form of capital punishment which "members of the general public may voluntarily...

King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was executed on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution was the...

Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. It depicts South...

to death by Admiralty courts. The "dock" consisted of a scaffold for hanging. Its last executions were in 1830. The British Admiralty's legal jurisdiction...

cast of the 2008 three-part television crime drama A Place of Execution as DI George Bennett as he was in the 1960s determined to close the case of a missing...

this period. Their first use as a place of execution is primarily associated with the rumoured paranoid excesses of Tiberius' later reign. The condemned...

A mock execution is a stratagem in which a victim is deliberately but falsely made to feel that their execution or that of another person is imminent or...

An execution van is a vehicle in which prisoners are executed through lethal injection. The vehicle is equipped with an execution chamber with a bed that...

A stay of execution (Law Latin: cesset executio, "let execution cease") is a court order to temporarily suspend the execution of a court judgment or other...

pressing is a method of execution that has a history during which the techniques used varied greatly from place to place, generally involving placing heavy...

known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the (Saint) Catherine('s) Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe...

of a gas chamber was first proposed by Allan McLane Hamilton to the state of Nevada. Since then, gas chambers have been used as a method of execution...

mutilated bodies of the brothers Johan and Cornelis de Witt hanging upside down on the Groene Zoodje, the place of execution in front of the Gevangenpoort...

king of France. Others (even some who had supported major political reform) condemned the execution as an act of senseless bloodshed and saw it as a sign...

handed over to a tribunal of the people so it can judge him quickly. We want this, even though we think an execution platoon is too much of an honour for...

fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn behind a horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated...

Execution in computer and software engineering is the process by which a computer or virtual machine interprets and acts on the instructions of a computer...

Alfred P. Southwick, a Buffalo, New York dentist, conceived this execution method in 1881. It was developed over the next decade as a more humane alternative...

computing, a programming language consists of a syntax plus an execution model. The execution model specifies the behavior of elements of the language...

an execution chamber prior to the abolition of capital punishment in the United Kingdom in the 1960s; the last execution at the prison took place in 1964...

An execution chamber, or death chamber, is a room or chamber in which capital punishment is carried out. Execution chambers are almost always inside the...

A ravenstone is a place of execution, akin to gallows. Ravenstone may also refer to: Ravenstone (brand), a destination gift shop and online retailer Ravenstone...