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  2. Category:Films about capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Death by Hanging; Death in the Garden; Deathrow (film) Dekalog: Five; The Detective (1968 film) The Devils (film) Dial M for Murder; The Dirty Dozen; Double Indemnity; Duel in the Sun (film) Dukun (film) Dynamite (1929 film)

  3. Hanging - Wikipedia

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    Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a standard method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and has been the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer's Odyssey. [1] Hanging is also a method of ...

  4. 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.

  5. The Man They Could Not Hang - Wikipedia

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    Over the month following Savaard's execution, six of the jurors from his trial are found hanged in apparent suicides, a commonality noticed by reporter 'Scoop' Foley. Foley visits Savaard's house on a night when the surviving jurors—along with District Attorney Drake, Police Lieutenant Shane, and police surgeon Dr. Stoddard—have been asked ...

  6. List of people who died by hanging - Wikipedia

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    Execution of Lincoln assassination conspirators Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq and war criminal Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi major organizer of the Holocaust and war criminal Wilhelm Keitel, German Nazi head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister and war criminal ...

  7. List of people hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as pictured in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a penalty in England, Wales, Ireland and the United Kingdom for several crimes, but mainly for high treason .

  8. Horrifying video shows French tourist executed by ISIS-linked ...

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    By RYAN GORMAN An ISIS-offshoot based in Algeria has executed a French hostage after previously threatening to kill him over France's participation in airstrikes over Iraq. Herve Gourdel, 55, was ...

  9. Category:Filmed executions - Wikipedia

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    This list may not reflect recent changes. * Beheading video; 0–9. 2016 Saudi Arabia mass execution; A. ... Saigon Execution;