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Executions of Huguenots after the Huguenot conspiracy of Amboise in 1560: some conspirators are hung by the neck from a tower, others are beheaded. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
Perrissin, J. (Jean), 1536?-1611?Date: [1570?]Reference: 42599iPart of: Quarante tableaux, ou Histoires diverses qui sont mémorables touchant les guerres, massacres, et troubles advenus en France en ces dernières années. Le tout recueilly selon le témoignage de ceux qui ont esté en personne, & qui les ont veues, lesquels sont pourtraits à la vérité.- 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- Ephemera
Lamentation of Franz Muller.
Date: [1864]- 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?]- Ephemera
A copy of verses : written upon the unfortunate Eliza Anthony, suspected of having been murdered.
Date: [1823?]- Ephemera
A particular account of the cruel and barbarous MURDER of Ann Banting and her infant child, by Captain Disney, late of Newcastle upon Tyne : from the British Gazette of the 26th November, 1820.
Date: [1820?]- Ephemera
Verses composed on the disgraceful traffic at present carried on of raising and selling the newly buried dead / William Smith.
Smith, William, the Haddington cobblerDate: [1829?]- Ephemera
The resurrectionists / J. Catnach.
Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]- Ephemera
County of London to wit. : to ... by virtue of a warrant under the hand and seal of Edwin Smith, esquire, one of His Majesty's coroners for the Copunty of London, you are hereby summoned and warned personally to be and appear before him as a juryman, on ... day, the ... day of ... at ... o'clock precisely in the ... noon at the Coroner's Court held at ... then and there to enquire on His Majesty's behalf touching the death of ... / H. Wood, constable.
Date: [1936]- Ephemera
An account of the extraordinary case and sufferings of Benj. Surr, who was discovered on Monday last, Decem. 20, 1819, chained to the wall in his own father's cellar, in Leeds, covered with filth and wretchedness, not having been shaved, or had his hair and nails cut for three years he was confined there.
Date: [1819?]- Ephemera
Crime and executions ephemera. Box 1.
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Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / Austin Sarat.
Sarat, AustinDate: ©2014- Books
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Lethal punishment : lynchings and legal executions in the South / Margaret Vandiver.
Vandiver, MargaretDate: 2007, ©2006- Books
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Judicial executions / by John J. de Zouche Marshall.
Marshall, John James de Zouche.Date: 1888- Books
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An alarm to Protestant princes and people, Who are all struck at in the Popish Cruelties at Thorn, and other Barbarous Executions abroad.
Owen, Charles, -1746.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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An alarm to Protestant princes and people, who are all struck at in the Popish cruelties at Thorn, and other barbarous executions abroad.
Owen, Charles, -1746.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Pictures
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A gaoler, wearing a Phrygian cap, reading out summons for executions to distressed prisoners of the French Revolution. Line engraving by W. Greatbach after A. Johannot, 1881.
Johannot, Alfred, 1800-1837.Date: 1881Reference: 43530i- Books
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The law of executions: or, a treatise shewing and explaining the nature of executions in several rules, and who may sue execution or not, and against what persons. By and out of what Court Execution to be Awarded. The several Sorts of Execution, and when to be Sued out. To what time Execution shall relate, as to Lands, as to Goods. Executions joint or several. Capias ad Satisfac'. Fiori facias, how the Property of the Goods is altered by the Sheriffs Seizure, or not. Stat. 29 Car. 2 c. 3. explained. Habere fac' possessionem. What Execution after Ca' Sa', Elegit, &c. Scire-Facias, the Nature and Reason of it, and Process. Elegit. Levari facias. Extent, the Nature of it. Of Re-Extent. Stat. 32 ... 8. c. 5. explained. What Things are extendible, and in hands of whom. Where the Conusee, &c. shall hold the Land over. Execution in reference to the King's Prerogative. Liberate. Statute Merchant, Staple, and on 23 H. 6. the Diversity of their Natures. Recognisances. Scire facias on Recognisance against the Bail; and Pleadings. Declarations and Pleadings on Statutes and Recognisances. Pleas after Judgment. Of Discharging of Executions by several ways. Of Restitution. All Illustrated and Explained, in Subdivisions, by our Book Cases, Reports, and Presidents. By S. C. Esq; author of Lex custumaria.
S. C. (Samuel Carter), of the Inner-Temple, Esquire.Date: 1706- Pictures
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Mass executions on a scaffold before a crowd of spectators: a group of people is hanged together from a gibbet, while others are beheaded, crucified and disembowelled. Engraving with etching, 16--.
Date: 1600-1699Reference: 43484i- Books
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The law of executions. To which are added, the history and practice of the Court of King's Bench; and some cases touching wills of lands and goods. By the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert.
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir, 1674-1726.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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The law of executions. To which are added, the history and practice of the Court of King's Bench; and some cases touching wills of lands and goods. By the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert.
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir, 1674-1726.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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An enquiry into the causes of the frequent executions at Tyburn: and A Proposal for some Regulations concerning Felons in Prison, and the good Effects to be Expected from them. To which is Added, A Discourse on Transportation, and a Method to render that Punishment more Effectual. By B. Mandeville, M. D.
Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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The law and practice of ejectments: being a compendious treatise of the Common and Statute Law relating thereto: to which are added select precedents of Pleas, Special Verdicts, Judgments, Executions, and Proceedings in Error: with two distinct tables to the whole.
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir, 1674-1726.Date: M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- Books
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The tyburn chronicle: or, villainy display'd in all its branches. Containing an authentic account of the lives, adventures, tryals, executions, and last dying speeches of the most notorious male factors. Of all Denominations, who have suffered for Bigamy, Forgeries, Highway-Robberies, House-Breaking, Murders, Perjury, Piracy, Rapes, Riots, Sodomy, Starving, Treason, And other the most enormous Crimes. The Whole being the most faithful Narrative ever yet Published of the various Executions, and other Punishments, In England, Scotland, and Ireland, From the year 1700, to the present time.
Date: [1768]- Pictures
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