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Dorothea Widmer (1758 - 1781), was a Swiss woman who was abused by her husband until she killed him. Her crime attracted tremendous public attention in Switzerland.

Widmer's husband was an alcoholic who habitually abused her. With her accomplice Bartholome Gubler, Widmer murdered her husband with an ax.

Widmer and Gubler were both angry of murder and sentenced to death. After a postponement until her child was born, Widmer was executed on 29 August 1781 in Zürich. Her accomplice was executed 18 days earlier.

Widmer attracted great public sympathy because of her youth, beauty and her longstanding abuse. She was compared with Beatrice Cenci and became the subject of poems and inscriptions.

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Laura and L. D. Nelson were an African-American mother and son who were lynched on May 25, 1911, near Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. They had been seized from their cells in the Okemah county jail the night before by a group of up to 40 white men, The Associated Press reported that Laura was raped. She and L. D. were then hanged from a bridge over the North Canadian River.

Laura and L. D. were in jail because L. D. had been accused of having shot and killed Deputy Sheriff George H. Loney of the Okfuskee County Sheriff's Office, during a search of the Nelsons' farm for a stolen cow. L. D. and Laura were both charged with murder; Laura was charged because she allegedly grabbed the gun first.

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WW1 anti-German posters

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Ernest Jean Delahaye
Hinrichtung

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WW2 Crimea

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A warden at the New Orleans Women's City Prison and his charges, New Orleans, 1963. The best job in the world,

 

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Danish resistance fighters lead women suspected of having ties to the Germans down a Copenhagen street toward the courthouse.
Heroes

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Czech heroes and women of German descent. Prague. May 1945.

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A detail from the 19th century lithograph “The Torture of Isabel Rodriguez.” The lithograph originally appeared in “El Libro Rojo” by Vicente Riva Palacio (1870).

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Persecution of Waldenses (Valdenses:Vaudois:Valdesi) by Roman Catholic church. Lucrezia Castellani accused of heresy before Inquisitors at Turin after taking part in a banned Waldenses service. Condemned and burnt at the stake: c1476. 19th century Engraving

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Full Name Marie Barrett
Religion Puritan, Quaker
Cause of death Hanging
Name Mary Dyer
Nationality English
Spouse William Dyer (m. 1633)
Known for Religious martydom

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The execution of the witch Maria Kropf
in 1675 in Feldbach, Styria.

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Art © A K Segan
The Sea monsters and 2 Russian teenage anti-Nazi partisans executed by the Third Reich's occupation military in Belarus, 1941
See the Description text in the UTW gallery of this drawing including from the following; The USHMM website includes text info about Marina Bruskin. /

The largest allegorical sea monster, at top center, was inspired by images in this book, which I bought at a charity thrift shop in Britain: La Structure et La Biologie des oissons, par Louis Roule, pub. 1930 by Les Editions Reider, Paris, France. /

The birds wings were inspired by 2 color photos in the 2002 published hardcopy calendar titled Splendid Wings 2002. The wing drawn at viewers left of the portrait of Bruskina, was inspired by the photo in the May page, of a wing of a sandpiper. The wing at viewers right, around the portrait of Shcherbatsevich, inspired by the February calendar section, of a western flicker. The calendar was published by the AOU (American Ornithologists Union), with credits to the Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, and to the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences.

Masha Bruskina, Volodia Shcherbatsevich were anti-Nazi Russian national partisans. They were executed by the Nazis, Oct. 26, 1941, Belarus (also known as Belorussia). His name is sometimes spelled (in English as) Volodya Sherbateyvich. She was 17, born 1924. He was 16. A World War I veteran, Kiril Trus, was also executed. Those three were the first anti-Nazi partisans from the USSR to be executed by the Nazis.

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The following is excerpted from the website of the USHMM, Washington, DC: Bruskina was a seventeen year-old Jewish woman who had resided in the Minsk ghetto during the summer of 1941. She was living as a non-Jew on the Aryan side when she was captured. In the months before her arrest she worked as a medical assistant in a hospital that the German army had converted into a prison camp for wounded Soviet POWs. In league with resistance groups operating near Minsk, she smuggled in civilian clothing and false documents for escaping Soviet officers. Following her arrest by German troops she was imprisoned and tortured. Unable to make her yield under torture, the Germans then paraded Bruskina and her two Belorussian cohorts through the streets of Minsk wearing signs that read "We are partisans who shot German soldiers." They were then publicly hanged and their bodies left for several days to serve as a deterrent to would-be resisters.

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Zagreb. June 1941. Yugoslav communist women before their execution near their future grave.

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