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The Strappado, used as public punishment, detail of plate 10 of Les Grandes Misères de la guerre by Jacques Callot, 1633. The strappado, also known as corda, [1] is a form of torture in which the victim's hands are tied behind their back and the victim is suspended by a rope attached to the wrists, typically resulting in dislocated shoulders.
The gibbet could be operated by cutting the rope supporting the blade or by pulling out the pin that held the rope. If the offender was to be executed for stealing an animal, a cord was fastened to the pin and tied to either the stolen animal or one of the same species, which was then driven off, withdrawing the pin and allowing the blade to drop.
Gibbeting is the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. Occasionally, the gibbet ( / ˈ dʒ ɪ b ɪ t / ) was also used as a method of public execution , with the criminal being left to die of exposure, thirst and/or ...
James Wilson, Andrew Hardie, and John Baird (1820) were hanged and beheaded for treason for their involvement in the Radical War. A hatchet was used to perform the decapitation. These were the last three people to be hanged and beheaded in the United Kingdom. Jolanta Bledaite (2008) – Lithuanian immigrant, tortured and killed in Scotland [36]
PHOTO: Mourners hold up photos of Mazen Al-Hamada at his funeral in Damascus. (Ritaj Zaknoun) "Seeing his funeral service today in Damascus is a testimony to what he meant to the Syrian people.
Illustration of the execution of Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi. Immurement (from the Latin im-, "in" and murus, "wall"; literally "walling in"), also called immuration or live entombment, is a form of imprisonment, usually until death, in which someone is placed within an enclosed space without exits. [1]
This week, see the face of the 500-year-old “Ice Maiden,” uncover the unlikely secret of starfish, spy glowing cosmic clouds, and more.
The Maiden (also known as the Scottish Maiden) is an early form of guillotine, or gibbet, that was used between the 16th and 18th centuries as a means of execution in Edinburgh, Scotland. The device was introduced in 1564 during the reign of Mary Queen of Scots , and was last used in 1716.