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Human sacrifices in Dahomey, Central Africa, Old 19th century engraved illustration, Le Tour du Monde 1863
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Punishment of adulterers, Khiva, Uzbekistan, from Travels in central Asia 1863 by Armin Vambery. Old engraving El Mundo en la Mano 1878
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Mariana de Carvajal at the stake (Martin Cohen, 1973: The Martyr)
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During the civil war of 1918, Vera Shlyapina was the head of the medical unit of the Red Army soldiers near Alapaevsk. Under the Whites, she remained in Alapaevsk. She was in prison until the spring of 1919. At the end of April 1919 or the beginning of May, at about five o'clock in the morning, she was taken to be shot. They shot her near the Poskotinsky mine and threw her into the shaft.
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Sisters Florence and Susie Freiermuth are arrested for moonshining during Prohibition, 1921.
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Executions of arsonistskerosenewomen of the Paris Commune. Different versions of pictures
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I haven't seen this photo from the "Lincoln killers" series yet
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Hannah Dagoe – for robbery in a dwelling house.
Hannah Dagoe, an Irish born widow, former wife of William Connor, “was indicted at the Old Bailey on the 13th of April 1763, together with one Mathews, not taken, for stealing in the dwelling-house owned by Susanna Rowland in Phoenix Street in Spitalfields on the 17th of March 1763 of items valued at £11 4s., the property of Eleanor Hussey”, who was a lodger in the house.
While in Newgate she stabbed Ralph Wayne, an accomplice who had given evidence against Morgan and Dupuy. He recovered from his wound.
She was hanged at Tyburn on the 4th of May 1763, with John Rice convicted of forgery and Paul Lewis for shooting at Mr. Joseph Brown with intent to rob him. Hannah and Paul Lewis were placed in one cart and John Rice in a second one. The procession from Newgate to Tyburn started out around 9.00 a.m.
The execution is described in the Newgate Callendar as under:
“On the road to Tyburn she showed little concern at her miserable state, and paid no attention to the exhortations of the Romish priest who attended her. When the cart, in which she was bound, was drawn under the gallows, she got her hands and arms
loose, seized the executioner, (Thomas Turlis) struggled with him, and gave him so violent a blow on the breast that she nearly knocked him down.
She dared him to hang her; and in order to revenge herself upon him, and cheat him of his dues, she took off her hat, cloak and other parts of her dress, and disposed of them among the crowd. (At this time the prisoner’s clothes were the perquisite of the hangman).
After much resistance he got the rope about her neck, which she had no sooner found accomplished than, pulling out a hand kerchief, she bound it round her head and over her face, and threw herself out of the cart, before the signal was given, with such
violence that she broke her neck and died instantly.”
It was reported thar Paul Lewis followed suite and his neck was also broken.
Hannah Dagoe, an Irish born widow, former wife of William Connor, “was indicted at the Old Bailey on the 13th of April 1763, together with one Mathews, not taken, for stealing in the dwelling-house owned by Susanna Rowland in Phoenix Street in Spitalfields on the 17th of March 1763 of items valued at £11 4s., the property of Eleanor Hussey”, who was a lodger in the house.
While in Newgate she stabbed Ralph Wayne, an accomplice who had given evidence against Morgan and Dupuy. He recovered from his wound.
She was hanged at Tyburn on the 4th of May 1763, with John Rice convicted of forgery and Paul Lewis for shooting at Mr. Joseph Brown with intent to rob him. Hannah and Paul Lewis were placed in one cart and John Rice in a second one. The procession from Newgate to Tyburn started out around 9.00 a.m.
The execution is described in the Newgate Callendar as under:
“On the road to Tyburn she showed little concern at her miserable state, and paid no attention to the exhortations of the Romish priest who attended her. When the cart, in which she was bound, was drawn under the gallows, she got her hands and arms
loose, seized the executioner, (Thomas Turlis) struggled with him, and gave him so violent a blow on the breast that she nearly knocked him down.
She dared him to hang her; and in order to revenge herself upon him, and cheat him of his dues, she took off her hat, cloak and other parts of her dress, and disposed of them among the crowd. (At this time the prisoner’s clothes were the perquisite of the hangman).
After much resistance he got the rope about her neck, which she had no sooner found accomplished than, pulling out a hand kerchief, she bound it round her head and over her face, and threw herself out of the cart, before the signal was given, with such
violence that she broke her neck and died instantly.”
It was reported thar Paul Lewis followed suite and his neck was also broken.
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Arrest of a woman for disorderly conduct for wearing a swimming costume that was too short. USA (1920)
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