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China: a man standing in a locked cage as a method of slow torture or execution. Photograph, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 663448i- Pictures
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The murder of Captain Benevente, and the conspiracy and subsequent divine punishment of the culprits. Etching with engraving and letterpress.
Date: [1726?]Reference: 43758i- 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
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
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]- Books
Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / Austin Sarat.
Sarat, AustinDate: ©2014- Ephemera
The resurrectionists / J. Catnach.
Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]- Pictures
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Canton, China: six men suspended by the neck in locked cages in public as a method of slow torture and execution for piracy. Photograph, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 663449i- Books
"Last dying speeches" : religion, ideology and public execution in seventeenth-century England / J.A. Sharpe.
Sharpe, J. A.Date: 1985- E-books
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Rites of execution : capital punishment and the transformation of American culture, 1776-1865 / Louis P. Masur.
Masur, Louis P.Date: 1989- 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
The gibbet / William Newton.
Newton, William.Date: [1819?]- Pictures
Anglo-Egyptian War, 1882: the execution of an Egyptian fighter by a British firing squad in Alexandria. Wood engraving after M. Prior, 1882.
Prior, Melton, 1845-1910.Date: [1882]Reference: 582013i- Pictures
China: the mutilated body of a man who had been dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663854i- Pictures
The procession of Shimazu-Seiji through the streets of Yokohama to execution for murder, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
Wirgman, Charles, 1832-1891.Date: 1865Reference: 580194i- Books
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The Wonders of free-grace, or, A compleat history of all the remarkable penitents that have been executed at Tyburn and elsewhere for these last thirty years : to which is added a sermon preached in the hearing of a condemn'd malefactor immediately before his execution.
Date: 1690- Ephemera
A full account of a barbarous, cruel, and inhuman MURDER, committed by Mary King, on the bodies of her four children, by pouring boiling lead in their ears : also an account and trial and execution.
Date: [1820?]- Pictures
An executioner raises his sword as he prepares to sever the head of one of two ring leaders of a band of pirates who attacked the houseboat Helvetia in Canton, a group of soldiers in parade stand behind and in the foreground a group of on-lookers. Photogravure after A. Michie after a drawing by F.C. Dickinson ca. 1880.
Dickinson, F.C.Date: [1880?]Reference: 586381i- Books
The hanging tree : execution and the English people, 1770-1868 / V.A.C. Gatrell.
Gatrell, Vic, 1941-Date: 1996- Pictures
China: the mutilated bodies of two men who had been tortured, dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663857i- Pictures
The beheading of the accomplices of the murderers of two British officers in Japan, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
Wirgman, Charles, 1832-1891.Date: 1865Reference: 580192i- Pictures
An elephant killing an Indian criminal by stamping on his head; guards standing next to it. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker, 1875, after E. Bayard after L. Rousselet.
Rousselet, Louis, 1845-1929.Date: [1875]Reference: 579970i- Pictures
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A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
Date: [1857]Reference: 579912i- Ephemera
Crime and executions ephemera. Box 1.
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An account of the crime, trial, confession, and execution of Charles Smith : who was hanged on Newcastle Town Moor, on Wednesday the 3d. of December, 1817, for the barbarous and cruel MURDER of Charles Stewart, at Ousebourn Pottery.
Date: 1817