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  • Thumbnail for Timothy McVeigh
    Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. His execution, which took place just over six years after the offense, was carried out in a considerably shorter time than...
    86 KB (8,902 words) - 14:18, 17 December 2024
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    Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. It depicts South...
    19 KB (2,195 words) - 02:22, 1 December 2024
  • Necklacing is a method of extrajudicial summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire drenched with petrol around a victim's chest...
    13 KB (1,381 words) - 00:55, 2 November 2024
  • to carry out lethal injection. DeWine indicated no executions would be carried out until the Ohio General Assembly approves a new method of execution. As...
    17 KB (1,426 words) - 12:56, 5 October 2024
  • emergency appeal with the Supreme Court an hour into the procedure, requesting that the prolonged execution be halted. In the motion, they wrote: "He has...
    14 KB (1,340 words) - 19:41, 10 December 2024
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    Hanging (redirect from Execution by hanging)
    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...
    104 KB (11,156 words) - 12:29, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Capital punishment in the United States
    sentenced to death; of these, more than 1,605 have been executed. Most executions are carried out by states. For every 8.2 peo­ple exe­cut­ed, one per­son on...
    202 KB (20,870 words) - 12:30, 18 December 2024
  • thirties. The execution was carried out on 27 April 1995 by the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court. In 2005, ten years after the execution, Wang Shujin...
    51 KB (6,479 words) - 15:05, 15 December 2024
  • "Plan and Execution" is the seventh episode and mid-season finale of the sixth season of Better Call Saul, the spin-off television series of Breaking...
    28 KB (2,649 words) - 09:49, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maximilian I of Mexico
    became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Mexican Republic on 19 June 1867. A member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine...
    98 KB (11,955 words) - 12:53, 7 December 2024
  • Gerald Bordelon (category 21st-century executions by Louisiana)
    products associated with capital punishment, Louisiana is unable to carry out executions, despite capital punishment still being a legal penalty. In 2016...
    15 KB (1,339 words) - 03:45, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dustin Higgs
    Dustin Higgs (category 21st-century executions by the United States federal government)
    administration's 13th execution". CBS News. Tarm, Michael; Hollingsworth, Heather (January 12, 2021). "US carries out its 1st execution of female inmate since...
    30 KB (3,045 words) - 20:33, 7 November 2024
  • The execution of Charles Rhines took place on November 4, 2019, at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. Rhines was executed for the 1992...
    12 KB (1,228 words) - 10:04, 4 November 2024
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    Aileen Wuornos (category 21st-century executions of American people)
    Monster (2003), Wuornos' story is described from her first murder until her execution; for her portrayal of Wuornos, Charlize Theron won the Academy Award for...
    67 KB (6,615 words) - 21:18, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stanley Williams
    Stanley Williams (category 21st-century executions by California)
    described the mood in the execution chamber as somber, and Williams showed no resistance as he was led into the execution chamber. After Williams was...
    63 KB (7,845 words) - 05:12, 15 December 2024
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    Seppuku (redirect from Harry carry)
    were uncooperative, seppuku could be carried out by an executioner, or more often, the actual execution was carried out solely by decapitation while retaining...
    46 KB (5,582 words) - 15:09, 27 November 2024
  • stated: You're not about to witness an execution, you are about to witness a murder. I am strapped down for something Marcus Rhodes did. I never killed anybody...
    9 KB (880 words) - 11:53, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Capital punishment in California
    carried out in the U.S. state of California, due to both a standing 2006 federal court order against the practice and a 2019 moratorium on executions...
    70 KB (6,680 words) - 19:21, 17 December 2024
  • The Barlow and Chambers executions were the hangings on 7 July 1986 by Malaysia of two Westerners, Kevin John Barlow (Australian and British) and Brian...
    27 KB (3,429 words) - 09:59, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crucifixion
    positions. In some cases, the condemned was forced to carry the crossbeam to the place of execution. A whole cross would weigh well over 135 kg (300 lb)...
    98 KB (11,329 words) - 15:30, 18 December 2024
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