Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 Sumter Three - Jenkins, Barnwell and Blackwell in Camp Hensen Courtroom, Okinawa. In late August and early September 1972, a series of incidents on board the USS Sumter (LST-1181) off the coast of Vietnam resulted in three Black marines being charged with three counts of mutiny and eleven counts of assault, with the possibility of execution.
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.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The execution method is associated with counterfeits (by pouring down the neck) or traitors (by pouring on the head). [6] Brazen bull. The victim was put inside an iron bull statue and then cooked alive after a fire was lit under it (of disputed historicity). Crushing: By a weight, abruptly or as a slow ordeal.
Rainey Bethea (1936) last public execution in the United States; Jacques Chausson (1661) attempted homosexual rape of a young nobleman; Caryl Chessman (1960) Richard Cornish (1625) homosexual rape of an endentured servant; Carlo Fantom (1643) Thomas Knapton (1833) José Gregorio Liendo (1973) Martinsville Seven (1951) group of seven men ...
The latest execution, of James Coddington, a white man who had been in jail since 1997 for killing a friend who refused to loan him $50 to buy cocaine, marked a dramatic step for state leadership.
William Fly (died 12 July 1726) was an English pirate who raided New England shipping fleets for three months in 1726 until he was captured by the crew of a seized ship. He was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, and his body publicly exhibited in a gibbet as a warning to other pirates.