enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Executioner - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executioner

    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 ...

  3. List of executioners - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_executioners

    Executioners were, whenever possible, selected from among slaves convicted for a capital crime. And except for the province of Rio Grande do Norte, executioners had obligatorily to be of African descent. As stayed or commuted convicts, executioners consequently lived as inmates in the prisons of the respective towns where they were based.

  4. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered

    To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland. The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn behind a horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the ...

  5. Public execution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_execution

    Documented public executions date back to at least the late medieval period, and peaked in the later sixteenth century. [4] This peak was due in part to the witch trials of the early modern period. In the late Middle Ages, executioners used increasingly brutal methods designed to inflict pain on the victim while still alive and to generate a ...

  6. Executioner's sword - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executioner's_sword

    Executioner's sword (16th century) A decapitation scene as shown in Cosmographia universalis of Sebastian Münster (1552). An executioner's sword is a sword designed specifically for decapitation of condemned criminals (as opposed to combat). These swords were intended for two-handed use, but were lacking a point, so that their overall blade ...

  7. List of people executed in Ohio - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_people_executed_in_Ohio

    The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Ohio since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. [1] All of the following people have been executed for murder since the Gregg v. Georgia decision. All 56 were executed by lethal injection. [2]

  8. Capital punishment in Ohio - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Ohio

    Only 28 people were ever executed by the state of Ohio via hanging before the state switched to the electric chair in 1897. "That the mode of inflicting the punishment of death in all cases under this act, shall be by hanging by the neck, until the person so to be punished shall be dead; & the sheriff, or the coroner in the case of the death, inability or absence of the sheriff of the proper ...

  9. Chaperon (headgear) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperon_(headgear)

    Chaperon is a diminutive of chape, which derives, like the English cap, cape and cope, from the Late Latin cappa, which already could mean cap, cape or hood ().. The tail of the hood, often quite long, was called the tippit [2] or liripipe in English, and liripipe or cornette in French.