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China: the bodies and heads of four men who have been beheaded lie on the ground; a group of Chinese soldiers stand nearby, one of them wiping his sword. Photograph.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663488i- Books
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Useful remarks. An essay upon remarkables in the way of wicked men. A sermon on the tragical end, unto which the way of twenty-six pirates brought them; at New Port on Rhode-Island, July 19, 1723. With an account of their speeches, letters, & actions, before their execution. [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1723- Books
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To the people of England. Whoever has been the least conversant, either in facred or prophane history, can be at no loss for instances, wherein private blood, unjustly spilt, has been exacted at the hands of a whole people; and that general calamities have been the consequence of particular injustice. ...
Triton.Date: 1757]- Pictures
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Taiping Rebellion, China: the place in Guangzhou where people were executed. Wood engraving after W.G. Dickson, 1855.
Dickson, Walter G.Date: [1855]Reference: 579927i- Books
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The greatness of sin improv'd by the penitent as an argument with God for a pardon. A sermon at the Thursday lecture in Boston, October 17th. 1734. Preach'd in the hearing of John Ormesby, and Matthew Cushing, two condemned malefactors on the day of their execution, the one for murder, and the other for burglary. By John Webb, A.M. Pastor of a church in Boston. With an appendix, giving a faithful account of the behaviour of Matthew Cushing, after his condemnation, and at the time of his execution. By the Reverend Mr. Cooper.
Webb, John, 1687-1750.Date: 1734- Books
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The ordinary of Newgate his account of the behaviours, confessions, and last dying words of the malefactors that were executed at Tyburn on Friday the 29th of January, 1719-20
Purney, Thomas, 1695-approximately 1727.Date: 1720]- Books
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A solemn warning: or, some account of the behaviour of B----- S------ll, Esq; while under sentence of death. By the Revd. Dr. B-tt.
Brett, John, Rector of Moynalty.Date: 1756]- Books
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A sermon; preached in Lenox, in the county of Berkshire, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts; December, 6th, 1787: at the execution of John Bly, and Charles Rose, for crimes of burglary. By Stephen West, A.M. Pastor of the church in Stockbridge. Published at the desire of great number of the hearers.
West, Stephen, 1735-1819.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Pictures
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Louisa Mabreé, a French midwife being executed in a cage full of cats above a fire. Coloured aquatint.
Date: 1 December 1821Reference: 16987i- Books
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Religious education of children recommended, in a sermon preach'd in the church of Portsmouth December 27th 1739. Being the day appointed for the execution of Penelope Kenny. By Arthur Browne, A.M. And missionary from the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Published at the desire of the church wardens and vestry.
Browne, Arthur, 1699-1773.Date: 1739. [1740 N.S]- Pictures
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Kowloon, Hong Kong: five pirates awaiting beheading, while Chinese soldiers and dignitaries line up behind. Photograph, 1891.
Date: [1891]Reference: 663758i- Books
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Tremenda. The dreadful sound with which the wicked are to be thunderstruck. In a sermon delivered unto a great assembly, in which was present, a miserable African, just going to be executed for a most inhumane and uncommon murder. At Boston, May 25th. 1721. To which is added, a conference between a minister and the prisoner, on the day before his execution. [One line from Deuteronomy]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1721- Ephemera
Trial behaviour and awful execution of R. Hale, & C. Brough at Stafford, on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1864.
Date: [1864?]- Books
York's early printed ephemera / collected by Bill Sessions... and Alice Ford-Smith.
Sessions, William K. (William Kaye)Date: 2006- Books
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The life of Nicholas Mooney, alias Jackson, born at Regar near Rathfarnham in the County of Dublin: Wherein is contained; an Account of his Parentage and Education; his being put Apprentice to a Paper-Maker at Glassnevin; his Elopement from his Master, and going to Sea; his Return to Ireland, and enlisting in his Majesty's Service; his Desertion, and joining the Rebel Army at Carlisle; his Advancement there, and the Part he acted therein, till the Defeat thereof at Culloden-Mure; his Escape to France; the Adventures he met with till he took to the Highway; the many Robberies he committed in and about London; with a brief Account of his vicious Life till he committed the Robbery at Bristol, for which he was condemned and executed there on Friday, April 24, 1752. Together with Religious and moral Reflections upon the most remarkable Passages of his Life, and an Account of his Conversion, the Sunday before his Trial: The whole delivered by him to the Sheriff at the Place of Execution, and published at his own Request.
Date: 1752- Books
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The last speech and dying words of John Ormsby, who was appointed to be executed on Boston Neck, the 17th of October, 1734. Written with his own hand, the day before he was to suffer; and recommended to all people, for their serious perusal.
Ormsby, John, -1734.Date: 1734- Books
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Sovereign grace displayed in the conversion and salvation of a penitent sinner, set forth in a sermon preached before the execution of Solomon Goodwin, who was executed at Falmouth, November 12, 1771, for the murder of David Wilson, on the 25th of May last. Published at th desire of many who heard it. By Ephraim Clark, of Cape-Elizabeth, and Pastor of the church there. [Two lines from St. Paul]
Clark, Ephraim, 1722-1797.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The young and thoughtless criminal. Being a true and most affecting history of that unfortunate convict, Hannah Bromley, alais [sic] Griffiths, being only nineteen years of age. Who was executed on Wednesday the 17th of January 1798, upon Kennington Common, for being concerned in robbing Mr Bishop's House of a large quantity of Tea, wearing Apparel, &c. and attempting to set fire to the Premises. Containing an account of her bein seduced by an artful young man, who lived in the Neighbourhood: by whose persuasions she committed the Crime for which she was Executed. Also, the pathetic letter which she sent her sweetheart, the night before her execution; and Concluding with Mournful Copy of Verses.
Date: 1798- Books
The illustrated history of torture : from the Roman Empire to the war on terror / Jack Vernon.
Vernon, Jack.Date: [2011], ©2011- Pictures
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Christ presented to the people. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Reference: 46855i- Books
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Prayers for condemned malefactors.
Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788.Date: 1785- Books
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The hainous nature of the sin of murder. And the great happiness of deliverance from it. As it was represented in a sermon at the lecture in Boston, Sept. 24. 1713. Before the execution of one David Wallis. By Benjamin Colman, Pastor of a church in Boston.
Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.Date: 1713- Books
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A sermon, preached at the execution of Moses Paul, an Indian: who was executed at New-Haven, on the 2d of September, 1772, for the murder of Mr. Moses Cook, late of Waterbury, on the 7th of December, 1771. Preached at the desire of said Paul. By Samson Occom, Minister of the Gospel, and missionary to the Indians.
Occom, Samson, 1723-1792.Date: 1773- Pictures
The beheading of Shimazu-Seiji for the murder of two British officers in Japan, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
Wirgman, Charles, 1832-1891.Date: 1865Reference: 580193i- Books
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A sermon preached at the execution of Moses Paul, an Indian: who was executed at New-Haven, Sept. 2. 1772, for the murder of Mr. Moses Cook, late of Waterbury, on the 7th of December, 1771. Preached at the desire of said Paul. By Samson Occom, Minister of the Gospel, and missionary to the Indians.
Occom, Samson, 1723-1792.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]