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In the state of Rio de Janeiro, after Independence September 7, 1822 there were also free executioners of African descent who having to travel around, were reached by couriers with execution orders. Executioners, also when slaves, were paid for their executions; at the example of the province of Minas Gerais , we can establish payment was ...
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Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Twenty-five people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2024, three by nitrogen hypoxia and twenty-two by lethal injection. [1] The first person executed in 2024, Kenneth Eugene Smith, became the first person in the United States and in the world to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia. [2] Three states saw their first executions in over ...
B. Danny Barber (serial killer) Velma Barfield; Charles Barr; Donald Beardslee; Martha Beck (serial killer) Larry Gene Bell; Monroe Betterton; Danny Bible; Jake Bird
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Capital punishment was a part of the legal system of Australia from the establishment of New South Wales as a British penal colony, until 1985, by which time all Australian states and territories had abolished the death penalty. [29] In practice, the last execution in Australia was the hanging of Ronald Ryan on 3 February 1967, in Victoria. [30]
Symbolic robed figure of a medieval public executioner at Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Russia Photograph (hand-coloured), original dated 1898, of the lord high executioner of the former princely state of Rewah, Central India, with large executioner's sword (Tegha sword) Depiction of a public execution in Brueghel's The Triumph of Death 1562–1563 Stylised depiction of public ...