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The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. 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 result of short-drop hanging (only used in Iran in modern times). By garrote. Used in Spain and former Spanish colonies (e.g., the Philippines). Back-breaking: A Mongolian method of execution that avoided the spilling of blood on the ground [6] (example: the Mongolian leader Jamukha was probably executed this way in 1206). [7] Blowing from ...
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; [30] in practice, the last execution in Australia was the hanging of Ronald Ryan on 3 February 1967, in Victoria.
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 ...
Police are investigating the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson who died on Saturday after a “freak accident” while playing for the Nottingham Panthers in England.
With 6:16 remaining in the second period of a professional hockey game in England, Adam Johnson of the Nottingham Panthers slipped past the blue line and toward the Sheffield net.
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 ...
The family of an ice hockey player who died after his neck was cut during a freak accident have revealed how they were watching the game online in America and witnessed the dramatic efforts to ...