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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- 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- 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?]- 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
China (?): the mutilated bodies of three men who have been tortured and executed. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663765i- 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- 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]- Ephemera
The resurrectionists / J. Catnach.
Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]- 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- 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
Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / Austin Sarat.
Sarat, AustinDate: ©2014- Pictures
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Anglo-Egyptian War, 1882: execution of an arsonist by a British firing squad in Alexandria. Wood engraving after F. Villiers, ca. 1882.
Villiers, Frederick, 1852-1922.Date: [1882]Reference: 582403i- 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?]- 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
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- Ephemera
The gibbet / William Newton.
Newton, William.Date: [1819?]- Pictures
China: the mutilated body of a man who had been dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663854i- 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- Books
"Last dying speeches" : religion, ideology and public execution in seventeenth-century England / J.A. Sharpe.
Sharpe, J. A.Date: 1985- 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?]- Books
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Rites of execution : capital punishment and the transformation of American culture, 1776-1865 / Louis P. Masur.
Masur, Louis PDate: 1989- Books
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A True and particular account of the execution of Richard Parker, on board the Sandwich, at the Nore, on Friday morning, at half past nine o'clock. Also, an account of the grand and solemn procession preceding the execution; and the particulars of his behaviour from the moment sentence of death was passed on him, till the time of his execution; and the conversation which passed between him and Captain Moss on board the Sandwich, faithfully detailed by a person who was present: and an account of the firm and manly manner in which he conducted himself.
Date: 1797]- Books
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The ungodly condemned in judgment. A sermon preached at Springfield, December 13th 1770. On occasion of the execution of William Shaw, for murder. By Moses Baldwin, A.M. Pastor of the church in Palmer.
Baldwin, Moses, 1732-1813.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The Whole life and character, birth, parentage and conversation, last dying speech and confession of James Cluff, who was executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 25th of July, 1729. To which are added a true copy of the several papers that he deliver'd to his friends and the populace on the day of his execution. ...
Date: [1729]