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Pyramid Head, also known as "Red Pyramid Thing" (レッドピラミッドシング, Reddo Piramiddo Shingu), "Red Triangle Head" (赤い三角頭, Akai Sankakutō) [1] or "Triangle Head" (三角頭, Sankakutō), is a character from the Silent Hill series, a survival horror video game series created by Japanese company Konami.
John Clarence Woods (June 5, 1911 – July 21, 1950) was a United States Army master sergeant who, with Joseph Malta, carried out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of the Third Reich on October 16, 1946, after they were sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials.
The Executioner with the Head of John the Baptist (William Dobson) John the Baptist (c. 30 AD) – in the Gospels by order of Herod Antipas; Theudas (c. 46 AD) - Jewish rebel mentioned in the Book of Acts; severed head displayed in Jerusalem.
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 absolutist executioner. Symbolic or real, executioners were rarely hooded, and not robed in all black; hoods were only used if an executioner's identity and anonymity were to be preserved from ...
"Bundy’s head jerked as 2,000 volts hit him. His body stiffened and pressed against the chair back," Swarens wrote. After less than two minutes, the executioner turned off the electric current.
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1912–1935 (Arthur Ellis was the pseudonym of executioner Arthur Bartholomew English) "Camille Blanchard" 1935–1960 (Camille Blanchard was the pseudonym that executioner of Canada used) "John Ellis" 1960–1976 (John Ellis was the pseudonym Canada's last executioner used while interviewed on a TV show)
It was then held up by the executioner, who exclaimed—"Behold the head of EDWARD MARCUS DESPARD, a Traitor!" The same ceremony followed with the others respectively; and the whole concluded by ten o'clock. [81] The severed head of Jeremiah Brandreth, one of the last men in England sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered