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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 ...
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.
People executed by hanging, drawing and quartering (2 C, 3 P) Pages in category "People executed by public hanging" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
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.
Islamic State said it had killed a Norwegian and a Chinese captive, showing what appeared to be pictures of the dead men under a banner reading "Executed" in the latest edition of its English ...
Furthermore, a study conducted by Harold Hillman in 1993 on "possible pain experienced during execution by different methods" reached the conclusion that "[a]ll of the methods used for executing people [including shooting, hanging, stoning, beheading, electrocution, gassing], with the possible exception of intravenous injection, are likely to ...
The Pike County Sheriff's Office charged the family on accusations they planned and carried out the murders of the Rhoden family in April of 2016.
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."