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    Execution by elephant, or Gunga Rao, was a method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, where Asian elephants were...
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    An elephant execution, sometimes called elephant lynching, is a pseudo-legal or performative public spectacle where a captive elephant is killed in order...
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    animals Elephant execution in the United States List of individual elephants List of unusual animal deaths Chunee Topsy (elephant) Tyke (elephant) Ziggy...
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    alternating current for executions had already become standard practice. Mary, another "bad elephant" whose 1916 execution by hanging was a similar public...
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    A war elephant is an elephant that is trained and guided by humans for combat purposes. Historically, the war elephant's main use was to charge the enemy...
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    elephants Chunee (elephant) Mary (elephant) Tyke (elephant) Elephant execution in the United States Contemporaneous newspaper accounts CONEY ELEPHANT...
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    Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French fusil, rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common...
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    sculpture exhibit Execution by elephant Elephants and mice sub-section of Fear of mice article Faithful Elephants, story of the elephants in Tokyo's Ueno...
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    Lists of unusual deaths (category Lists of people by cause of death)
    Autoerotic fatality Darwin Awards Death by coconut Death from laughter Death by vending machine Execution by elephant Spontaneous human combustion 1000 Ways...
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    immurement, flaying, disembowelment, crucifixion, impalement, crushing, execution by elephant, keelhauling, stoning, dismemberment, sawing, slow slicing, blood...
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  • 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...
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    Dismemberment (category Execution methods)
    Particularly in South Asia, execution by trained elephants was a form of capital punishment practiced for several centuries. The techniques by which the convicted...
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    Suleiman the Magnificent (1911) pp 109–125.online Ünal, Tahsin (1961). The Execution of Prince Mustafa in Eregli. Anıt. pp. 9–22. Ágoston, Gábor (1991). "Muslim...
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  • 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...
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    conceived this execution method in 1881. It was developed over the next decade as a more humane alternative to conventional executions, particularly hanging...
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    Hanging (redirect from Execution by hanging)
    Ages, and has been the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer's Odyssey...
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    Uttarardh Mahotsav at the Temple Indian classical dancer at the temple Execution by elephant carved on a pillar Becharaji Vav, Modhera Modheshwari Temple, Modhera...
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  • known as execution. These methods of capital punishment are currently legal in at least one country. Many historically recorded methods of execution include...
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    Damnatio ad bestias (category Execution methods)
    torn by lions Wikimedia Commons has media related to Damnatio ad bestias. Animal trial Atlas bear Blood sport Damnatio memoriae Execution by elephant Persecution...
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  • A botched execution is defined by political science professor Austin Sarat as: Botched executions occur when there is a breakdown in, or departure from...
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    When used as a means of execution, the prisoner is simply left to die from starvation or dehydration. This form of execution is distinct from being buried...
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    South and West Asia History of education in the Indian subcontinent Execution by elephant Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia Indian literature Indian...
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    Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Opponents of capital punishment...
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    Death by boiling is a method of execution in which a person is killed by being immersed in a boiling liquid. While not as common as other methods of execution...
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  • Drowning as a method of execution is attested very early in history, for a large variety of cultures and as the method of execution for many types of offences...
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    Garrote (redirect from Execution by garrote)
    Americas, notably in the execution of the Inca emperor Atahualpa. It was intended as a more merciful form of execution than death by burning, where heretics...
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    1692 (Dutch) editions of An Historical Relation Depiction of an execution by elephant Daoyi Zhilüe Ceylon, Physical, Historical and Topographical Donald...
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  • Tyke (1973 – August 20, 1994) was a female African bush elephant from Mozambique who performed with Circus International of Honolulu, Hawaii. On August...
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    by wire from Europe, characterized the plan to end Charlie's life as an execution. Apparently formerly known as Prince Rajah, Charlie the Elephant weighed...
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  • Latin capitalis from caput, "head") refers to execution by beheading, but executions are carried out by many methods, including hanging, shooting, lethal...
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