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  2. 1885 hangings at Battleford - Wikipedia

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    The mass grave near the fort remained unmarked and forgotten for many years. In 1972, the gravesite was rediscovered by students who followed old plans of the fort to find the burial. The location was marked with a concrete pad and chain fence. In later years, this was removed and replaced with a modern headstone bearing the names of the ...

  3. List of people executed by the United States military - Wikipedia

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    While the federal government requested the Broward County authorities conduct the execution, upon their refusal the execution was moved to the nearest federal facility: Coast Guard Base 6 (now Station Fort Lauderdale) on Bahia Mar. Alderman was hanged at 6:04 am on August 17, 1929 and was buried in an unmarked grave in lot 5, section C of Miami ...

  4. Blood eagle - Wikipedia

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    The blood eagle was a method of ritual execution as detailed in late skaldic poetry. According to the two instances mentioned in the Christian sagas , the victims (in both cases members of royal families) were placed in a prone position , their ribs severed from the spine with a sharp tool, and their lungs pulled through the opening to create a ...

  5. Kintpuash - Wikipedia

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    Kintpuash (c. 1837 – October 3, 1873), also known as Kientpoos, Keintpoos, or by his English name Captain Jack, was a prominent Modoc leader from present-day northern California and southern Oregon.

  6. Nine Men's Misery - Wikipedia

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    The Narragansett tribe lost only a handful of warriors. [citation needed] Ten of the colonists were taken prisoner. Nine of these men were tortured to death by the Narragansett warriors at a site in Cumberland, Rhode Island, currently on the Cumberland Monastery and Library property, along with a tenth man who survived. The nine men were buried ...

  7. Willi Herold - Wikipedia

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    Willi Herold (11 September 1925 – 14 November 1946), also known as the Executioner of Emsland, was a Nazi German war criminal.Near the end of the Second World War in Europe, Herold deserted from the German Army and, posing as a Luftwaffe captain, organized the mass execution of German deserters held at a prison camp.

  8. 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.

  9. William Crawford (soldier) - Wikipedia

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    Crawford's execution was brutal, and was overseen by Simon Girty, a former soldier under Crawford's command who deserted his post after being wanted for high treason in 1778 for acting as an enemy of the state while serving in the militia [46] (the order was signed by Timothy Matlack, and George Bryan). Crawford was tortured for at least two ...