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  2. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Hanging - Wikipedia

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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; [30] in practice, the last execution in Australia was the hanging of Ronald Ryan on 3 February 1967, in Victoria.

  5. Breaking wheel - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Police investigating death of US ice hockey player Adam ...

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    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.

  7. Death of hockey player Adam Johnson under police investigation

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    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.

  8. Public execution - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Family of ice hockey star killed in freak accident reveal ...

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    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 ...