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    has media related to Public execution. A public execution is a form of capital punishment carried out in view of the general public. The purpose of such...
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    In Iran, public executions occurred regularly during the Qajar dynasty but declined with the Persian Constitutional Revolution and became a rare occurrence...
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  • capital, Riyadh, became known in the West as "Chop-Chop Square" due to public executions there. The kingdom executed at least 158 people in 2015, at least...
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  • 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...
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    30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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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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  • "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"...
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    reasonable. The last public execution in the U.S. took place in 1937 in Missouri, after which most states began requiring executions to be held privately...
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    abstained. Ultimately, they condemned him to death by a simple majority. The execution by guillotine was performed by Charles-Henri Sanson, then High Executioner...
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  • 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...
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    Executioner (redirect from Public hangman)
    would be executed on the spot by janissaries. Grand viziers could avoid execution by racing the bostancibaşi. If they reached the Fish Market Gate (on the...
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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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    elephants were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives during public executions. The animals were trained to kill victims immediately or to torture...
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    on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. Occasionally, the gibbet (/ˈdʒɪbɪt/) was also used as a method of public execution, with...
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  • the public execution of one prisoner connected with the protests "in the shortest time possible," specifically requesting that the execution be public "as...
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    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...
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    Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. It depicts South...
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    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...
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    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...
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    /ˈɡijətin/ GHEE-yə-teen) is an apparatus designed for effectively carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted...
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    recommended an end to public executions. This proposal was included in the Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868. From that date executions in Great Britain...
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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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    stage-like site for public executions. The execution was practised in public places. The "public spectacle" character of the execution was meant to deter...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Deera Square (category Execution sites)
    It is known as the historic site of public executions, where those sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia were publicly beheaded. At unannounced times, Saudi...
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    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,...
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