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Execution wheel (German: Richtrad) with underlays, 18th century; on display at the Märkisches Museum, Berlin The breaking wheel, also known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the (Saint) Catherine('s) Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages up to the 19th century by breaking the bones of a criminal or ...
The Chariot of Death is a large allegorical painting by Théophile Schuler. It was gifted to the Unterlinden Museum by the artist in 1862. Its inventory number is 88.RP.454. [2] The painting is considered one of the most emblematic of the collection (which includes the world-famous Isenheim Altarpiece).
Also known as the Catherine wheel, after Catherine of Alexandria who was executed by this method. Burning: At the stake. Infamous as a method of execution for heretics and witches. A slower method of applying single pieces of burning wood was used by Native Americans to torture their captives to death. [5] Molten metal.
Decimation. Etching by William Hogarth in Beaver's Roman Military Punishments (1725). In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio 'removal of a tenth' [1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.
Another punishment in the Roman Military only applied to people involved in the prison system; this rule was that if a prisoner died due to the punishment inflicted by Roman legionaries, unless he was given the death penalty, then the leader of the troops would be given the same punishment. [citation needed]
Mississippi has used lethal injections as a method of execution since 1984, but how did it execute them before then? Executions on Mississippi's death row: A brief history of hanging, electric ...
Since the state’s last execution, the Department of Corrections reports that four inmates have died on death row. Convicted murderer Freddie Owens is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p ...
Ancient Roman executioners (1 P) People executed by ancient Rome (3 C) Pages in category "Capital punishment in ancient Rome"