An execution ballad is a type of ballad that details the execution of a prisoner or criminal. A popular form of street literature from the 1500s to 1800s...

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a 2023 American dystopian action film produced and directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay...

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (titled on-screen as The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Other Tales of the American Frontier) is a 2018 American Western anthology...

end of the Second Rebellion, which deposes him. In the prequel book, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020), he is an ambitious, intelligent and charismatic...

"The Night Before Larry Was Stretched" is an Irish execution ballad written in the Newgate cant. The song is in The Festival of Anacreon, with tune direction...

Armstrong's Farevvel: · Execution Ballads". omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 15 May 2025. "Attributed to Jan Luyken (1649-1712) - Execution of Thomas Armstrong...

hear again that his execution will be luxurious. A London broadside from between 1601 and 1640 is the earliest version of the ballad, telling the story...

Daisley and Randy Rhoads from Osbourne's 1980 album Blizzard of Ozz. A ballad, the song has been characterized as influenced by the chord progressions...

God to witness that it was drawn from him by the hope of pardon. An execution ballad called The Lamentation of Englande was published in London later in...

Tipton, Alzada (2002). "The Transformation of the Earl of Essex: Post-Execution Ballads and "The Phoenix and the Turtle"". Studies in Philology. 99 (1): 57–80...

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from Reading Gaol (/rɛ.dɪŋ.dʒeɪl/)...

hanged at Reading Gaol for the murder of his wife. The execution inspired Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol. 19 July 1899: Mary Ansell was hanged...

throughout Europe and North America. Along with reports of events, executions, ballads and verse, they also contained jokes. Only one of many broadsides...

Mangal Pandey: The Rising (internationally known as The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey) is a 2005 Indian bio-historical action drama film based on the...

The Ballad of Dood and Juanita is the seventh studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson, released on August 20, 2021. Simpson...

Machine Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. "derrick". McIlvenna, Una (April 2022). Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900. v t e...

extended edition of the film's soundtrack. "The Hanging Tree" is a folk ballad that features orchestral strings and a choir. "The Hanging Tree" received...

Buffs (or The British Soldier In China) is a ballad by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle describing the execution of a British infantryman by Chinese soldiers...

Mystery Louis Xvii. Brill Archive. "La Mort de Marie-Antoinette · Execution Ballads". omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 2023-12-27. 7a: This quote...

the morning of his execution. He read it at the gallows. "I Am Going to the Lordy" was used as a base for the song "The Ballad of Guiteau" in the Stephen...

The Child Ballads is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child and originally published...

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...

Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti is a set of ballad songs, written and performed by Woody Guthrie, related to the trial, conviction and execution of Sacco and...

Deutscher highlights Trotsky's preference for exchanging hostages over execution, recounting General Pyotr Krasnov's release on parole in 1918, only for...

Kipling's early verse. The poem, a ballad, describes the execution of a British soldier in India for murder. His execution is viewed by his regiment, paraded...

at the location of her execution, whose flowers were as white as her innocence and berries as red as her blood, inspired a ballad. Similar legends stem...

The following are often-sung Irish folk ballads and folk songs. The songs are arranged by theme under the categories "Politics and soldiering" and "Non-political"...

Carens, pp. 10–21 Carens, pp. 7–8 O Lochlainn, Colm. More Irish Street Ballads. pp. 32–33. "The Lay of Oliver Gogarty". www.babelmatrix.org. Retrieved...

The Ballade des pendus, literally "ballad of the hanged", also known as Epitaphe Villon or Frères humains, is the best-known poem by François Villon. It...

particularly local traditions such as the Border ballads, which include the particularly influential Ballad of Chevy Chase. British folk groups, such as Fairport...