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China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663451iPart of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband- Ephemera
An account of the trial, crimes, and execution of Wilkinson & Hetherington : two notorious highwaymen who were hanged at Morpeth, on Monday, Sept. 10, 1821, for various highway robberies committed in the neighbourhood of Newcastle.
Date: 1821- Pictures
China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663450iPart of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband- Pictures
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A Turkish executioner. Coloured aquatint by I.H. Clark, 1818.
Date: January 1 1818Reference: 581655i- Ephemera
An account of a most barbarous and unparalleled MURDER of Ann Smith, a ballad singer, by a wretch named Samuel Thorley, a butcher's assistant, at Congleton, Cheshire, and who actually eat [sic] part of the flesh of his unfortunate victim.
Date: [1820?]- Pictures
China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being strangled with a garrotte. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663455iPart of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband- Pictures
China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, having the blindfold fastened over the garrotte. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663454iPart of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband- Pictures
China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, having the garrotte attached to her head. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663452iPart of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband- Pictures
China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, having the ropes of the garrotte attached to her head. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663453iPart of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband- Ephemera
Lamentation of Franz Muller.
Date: [1864]- Pictures
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A Chinese man is being led to execution by four men. Wood engraving, 1857.
Date: [1857]Reference: 579728i- Pictures
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Afghanistan: the retinue of Shah Shoojau-Ool-Moolk, including his Chief Executioner and a Mutilator. Lithograph by L. Haghe after L.W. Hart, 1843.
Hart, Lockyer Willis, active 1843.Date: [April 2nd 1843]Reference: 581657i- Ephemera
A copy of verses : written upon the unfortunate Eliza Anthony, suspected of having been murdered.
Date: [1823?]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001086: A Chinese woman being taken to be executed by strangulation
Date: 12 August 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/10/22Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001085: A Chinese woman being taken to be executed by strangulation
Date: 12 August 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/10/21Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001084: A Chinese woman being taken to be executed by strangulation
Date: 12 August 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/10/20Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
Reference: 1999i- Books
The English execution narrative, 1200-1700 / by Katherine Royer.
Royer, KatherineDate: 2014- E-books
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Lethal punishment : lynchings and legal executions in the South / Margaret Vandiver.
Vandiver, Margaret.Date: c2006- Pictures
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Execution of criminals in Guinea. Etching, ca. 1763.
Date: [1763?]Reference: 583900i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006328: Chinese model of "Death by a hundred cuts"
Date: June 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/53/9Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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The execution of the eight surviving conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot in 1606 in London. Etching with engraving by C.J. Visscher.
Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652.Reference: 43489i- Pictures
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A Chinese man preparing to be executed by decapitation: the man is shown being made to kneel on the ground, while the executioner raises his sword. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 573801i- Pictures
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Russian Nihilists tied to chairs on horse-drawn platforms being paraded past groups of soldiers on their way to their execution in St. Petersburg. Wood engraving.
Reference: 43600i- Pictures
China (?): the mutilated bodies of three men who have been tortured and executed. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663765i