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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
    663451i
    Part of
    China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband
    • Pictures
  • The wrestler and gladiator Narcissus strangling the emperor Commodus. Engraving by G. Mochetti after B. Pinelli.

    • Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.
    Reference
    42745i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Suicide of the great enamelist : we have just received the important news at our office, from reliable quarters, that the great Beautifier has committed suicide by strangulation, while in her cell in prison.

    Date
    [ebtween 1830 and 1850?]
    • Ephemera
  • 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
    663453i
    Part 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. Photograph, 19--.

    Date
    [between 1900 and 1999]
    Reference
    663450i
    Part of
    China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A man performing a chemical procedure is approached from behind behind by another man who strangles him with a scarf. Process print by V&C after P. Chase.

    • Chase, Powell.
    Reference
    42927i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • 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
    663454i
    Part of
    China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband
    • Pictures
  • A bearded man grips a woman between his legs and strangles her with his hands. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1965.

    • Bishop, Mary, active approximately 1955-1975.
    Date
    Oct. '65 [October 1965]
    Reference
    2870402i
    Part of
    Adamson Collection
    • Pictures
  • Horrible and bar-bari-ous murder of poor Jael Denny : the ill-fated victim of Thomas Drory.

    Date
    [1840?]
    • Ephemera
  • 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
    663452i
    Part of
    China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband
    • Pictures
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