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Keelhauling (Dutch kielhalen; [1] "to drag along the keel") is a form of punishment and potential execution once meted out to sailors at sea. The sailor was tied to a line looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel , either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ...
The executions led to significant international criticism, [4] [5] with United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers condemning Iraq's actions as "repugnant to the conscience of the world" [6] and Egypt's Al-Ahram cautioning: "The hanging of fourteen people in the public square is certainly not a heart-warming sight, nor is it the occasion for organizing a spectacle."
Giles Corey and John Darren Caymo were killed this way. Disembowelment: Often employed as a supplementary part of the execution, e.g., with drawing in hanging, drawing, and quartering. Dismemberment: Used as punishment for high treason in the Ancien régime; also used by several others countries at various points in history. Drowning
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as pictured in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a penalty in England, Wales, Ireland and the United Kingdom for several crimes, but mainly for high treason. This method was abolished in 1870.
Walking the plank was a method of execution practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers. For the amusement of the perpetrators and the psychological torture of the victims, captives were bound so they could not swim or tread water and forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship.
Dearman stormed into a Citronelle home on Aug. 20, 2016, and killed five people who were related by blood or marriage to his then-girlfriend, Laneta Lester.
Dazzamon Jones, who killed Lopez by emptying the magazine of an assault-style rifle into the 34-year-old's Kia Soul last August, was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison with the possibility of ...
The 27-year-old Florida man who murdered singer Christina Grimmie earlier this year watched from the back of the venue as she performed.