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  • Execution of the William Burke
  • Execution of J. Frampton and Andrew Barton
  • Execution of criminals in Guinea. Etching, ca. 1763.
  • Execution of a woman in Paris for spreading petroleum. Wood engraving.
  • Execution of a Sudanese mutineer by hanging. Wood engraving by C.J. Staniland.
  • Execution of Bulgarians on makeshift gallows in the streets of Adrianople, Turkey. Wood engraving.
  • Execution of Communist prisoners in the garden of the Luxembourg in Paris. Wood engraving.
  • Execution by sword and by hanging of men that refused to convert to Papism in Brussels. Etching.
  • The execution of Father Garnet by hanging. Wood engraving.
  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan
  • Scene of the execution of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico.
  • Military execution of a Russian spy at Schumla. Wood engraving.
  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
  • A mass-execution where men are hung above a burning bonfire. Etching.
  • Mary (Molly) Blandy, before her execution for poisoning her father. Etching, 1752.
  • Groups of men gather at an execution. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1741.
  • A violent execution scene from Chinese theatre. Colour woodcut by a Chinese artist.
  • A Chinese man is being led to execution by four men. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband. Photograph, 19--.
  • Russian Nihilists are given the last rites before their execution at the scaffold. Wood engraving.
  • The bottle, by George Cruikshank; 'An execution sweeps off the greater part of their furniture'
  • The execution of mutineers in Peshawar: men being hanged and blown from guns. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • The execution of slaves by means of beheading by the Bakuti, near Equator Station. Wood engraving.
  • A prisoner led to his execution through a field littered with skulls and skeletons. Wood engraving.
  • The execution by sword of a Chinese man. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • 'Dr. Dooreslaer' appearing with mythological figures and scenes of feasting and execution. Line engraving, c. 1650.
  • Sarah Malcolm in Newgate Prison shortly before her execution. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • An assassin is led to his execution during the war in Egypt. Wood engraving by W. Horsley.
  • Execution by firing squad of a Ghazi, or Muslim militant, at the Peshawur Gate in Jellalabad during the Afghan War. Wood engraving by W.I. Mosses after W.H. Overend.