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James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (1581) – executed on the Scottish maiden for complicity in murder of Lord Darnley. William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (1584) – executed by order of James VI of Scotland. John Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell (1613) – beheaded in Edinburgh for carrying out a revenge killing.
Mary, Queen of Scots (1587) – Beheading by axe. The execution took three blows. [5] Anne Greene (1650) – Hanging (attempted). She was found alive, in her coffin, a day after her hanging, having a faint pulse and weak breathing. Set free after failed execution. [citation needed] William Russell, Lord Russell (1683) – Beheading
Excerpt from Charles I's speech upon the scaffold, as recorded by Juxon. Just before 2 p.m., Colonel Hacker called Charles to the scaffold. Charles came through the window of the Banqueting Hall [d] to the scaffold in what Herbert described as "the saddest sight England ever saw". Charles saw the crowd and realised that the barrier of guards prevented the crowd from hearing any speech he would ...
The Axe Killer, a South African serial killer who was convicted and executed by hanging for 15 murders, 1955. Smallwood, New York New Years Day axe murders. January 1, 1964. Frank Scaramuzzo aged 24 killed Joseph McAdam age 49, and Judith Meddaugh age 19 and attempted to kill Florence McAdam age 20 in Smallwood, Sullivan County NY.
To be hanged, drawn and quartered became a statutory penalty for men convicted of high treason in the Kingdom of England from 1352 under King Edward III (1327–1377), although similar rituals are recorded during the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272). The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn behind a horse ...
Assaulted with an axe. Daniel John Morgan (3 November 1949 – 10 March 1987) was a British private investigator who was murdered with an axe in a pub car park in Sydenham, London, in 1987. Despite several Metropolitan Police investigations, arrests, and trial, the crime remains unsolved. An independent review into the handling of the ...
Common terms for executioners derived from forms of capital punishment—though they often also performed other physical punishments—include hangman (hanging) and headsman (beheading). In the military, the role of executioner was performed by a soldier, such as the provost. A common stereotype of an executioner is a hooded medieval or ...
Murder of Anthony Walker. Anthony Delano Walker (21 February 1987 – 30 July 2005) was a Black British student of Jamaican descent who was murdered with an ice axe by Michael Barton (brother of footballer Joey Barton) and Barton's cousin Paul Taylor, in an unprovoked racist attack on the night of 29 July 2005 in Huyton, Merseyside. [1] Walker ...