Edward Marcus Despard was the last person in Britain sentenced to be publicly hanged, drawn and quartered. |
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In Scotland and in England royal assent was required in order to dissect the bodies of hanged felons. |
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It is so easy to say that murderers should be hanged, but what if they have been framed, or the evidence isn't up to scratch. |
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Tone, aboard the last French invasion fleet, was captured and suicided before he could be hanged. |
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Despite slender evidence when tried at the Queen's Bench, he was indicted, convicted, and hanged. |
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A cheering crowd dragged their burned and mutilated bodies through the streets and hanged two bodies from a bridge over the Euphrates River. |
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India's last execution was in 1995, when an auto-rickshaw driver convicted in the serial murders of prostitutes was hanged. |
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A vigilance committee hanged the three men accused of being the ringleaders, while the lives of the rest were spared. |
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For many New Englanders, capital punishment relates more to the era of witches being hanged than to the current day. |
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He also came to know a half-witted spinster who, having stolen a yard or two of cloth from a weaver, was to be hanged for it. |
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Although it does seem like a dim and distant memory now, I still remember people being hanged in Britain during my lifetime. |
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Smith, who is to be hanged, will probably leave death row after his sentence is commuted to life imprisonment. |
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The bushranger was hanged in Melbourne in 1880 after being captured in a shoot-out with police in the small town of Glenrowan, Victoria. |
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Thomas Weir was sentenced to death and burned at the stake, while his sister was hanged. |
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She was hanged three weeks later despite public uproar and thousands of people demonstrating in the street. |
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Between October 1952 and November 1954, 756 rebels were hanged, most for offences less than murder. |
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In August, he was hanged on Gallows Hill, one of 19 people executed for witchcraft. |
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Her 25-year-old lorry driver husband was hanged for the murder of the child. |
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The last execution here took place in 1997 when eight prisoners were hanged. |
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At the country house, David tells the O'Briens that he's hanged if he knows what's got into Beryl. |
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No one knows whether Defoe fought at this battle, but he certainly was forced into hiding afterwards and was lucky not to be caught and hanged. |
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The grief-stricken parents of a schoolboy found hanged in his bedroom insisted yesterday he had not been the victim of bullying. |
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Hare turned King's evidence, but Burke was hanged and afterwards publicly dissected. |
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In 1667 three men were hanged at York for the murder of a Wakefield woman suspected of bewitching a man. |
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Many peasants were hanged, either to encourage the others or because the requisitioners were convinced that they had hidden their grain. |
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What if the man, who had liquidated her and been subsequently nabbed, were to be hanged for the justice he had meted out? |
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He was subsequently extradited to Poland, where he was tried, found guilty and hanged. |
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Rudge is hanged, Barnaby is reprieved from the gallows at the last moment, and Chester is killed by Haredale in a duel. |
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Times were tough in the past and criminals were publicly whipped, branded, banished or hanged. |
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The revelations silenced most supporters and he was hanged in Pentonville prison on 3 August 1916 with scarcely a murmur of protest. |
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The Scottish business community is ecstatic because, after being hanged and drawn, its quartering has been postponed for a twelvemonth. |
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How about Deacon Brodie's, a pub that honours a man who was hanged on a gallows of his own design? |
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It was thought that mandrakes sprang up beneath gallows, with the root taking on the shape of the person who'd been hanged. |
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The author claimed the soldier was an ordinary sepoy who, under the influence of bhang, committed a reckless act for which he was hanged. |
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Ultimately he was tried, convicted and swung from a gallows, the last person hanged in Alberta. |
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In April 1739 a pock-marked butcher was hanged at York for crimes against His Majesty's Highways. |
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The cast members are illiterate, dispirited convicts with a leading lady who is about to be hanged. |
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A gigantic sign hanged from a wooden pole, welcoming visitors to Jeroosalim, the twin city of Nautras. |
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He was tried in a kangaroo court and hanged, his corpse left to rot on the gibbet for four years. |
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Those who resisted were hanged, broken on the wheel, sent to the fortress of Toulon where the water was waist-high. |
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And last year a 20-year-old remand prisoner was found hanged, while rioting prisoners barricaded themselves into a cell in August. |
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His crimes discovered, he was sentenced to be hanged from a gibbet which he himself had designed. |
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He famously failed to defend the infanticidal Minnie Dean, the first and last woman to be hanged in New Zealand. |
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Early in the action the eponymous hero, a Scottish mercenary soldier, is sentenced to be hanged together with a group of gypsies. |
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He was grabbed from the arresting officer by a gang of masked men who tied a rope around his neck and hanged him. |
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After showing him the pendant hanged around my neck, his face showed confusion. |
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Students were publicly hanged every year following 1978, while exiled opponents were assassinated. |
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It is self-evident that if they had been hanged these murderers could not have struck again and 70 innocent people would be alive today. |
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In 1903, he was hanged for the murder of a rancher's 15-year-old son, a crime he most likely did not commit. |
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If the rebel American militias were beaten on the battlefield, their ringleaders could expect to be hanged as traitors. |
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One of my aunts went to Leeds prison to stand outside while some multi-murderer was hanged. |
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Before the trial, even the defence lawyer of the accused said that the two should be publicly hanged as a warning to all Inuit. |
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They were subjected to severe beatings and hanged from the ceiling of the cell with their hands and legs tied behind their backs. |
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To the government of that day, he was a traitor, and after the 1885 rebellion he was tried in Regina and hanged. |
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Along with Smith O'Brien, Terence Bellew MacManus and Thomas Francis Meagher, he was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. |
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On 14 August 2005, at 7 a.m., Mr. Agaev made a noose out of a length of electrical wire found on the railings and hanged himself. |
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On 19 December 2008, Charles Laplace was hanged despite remaining doubts as to whether all avenues of appeal had been exhausted. |
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Captured in Dumbarton castle in 1571 after Mary's cause had collapsed, he was accused of complicity in the murders of Darnley and of Moray, and hanged at Stirling. |
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Then, after having hanged these papers on a specific section of the room, you can invite participants to walk the gallery. |
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He had hanged himself with 550 cord, an all-purpose green string that looks like a shoelace and can hold 550 pounds. |
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He fled the United States in 1998 after a 17-year-old accused him of a drunken sexual assault, and he hanged himself not long afterwards in a London lock-up. |
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Mary Richardson Kennedy had three antidepressants in her system when she hanged herself. |
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He was taken into a room, blindfolded and led to believe he was going to be hanged. |
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The kidnappers drove to an abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of the city where they tied a rope around the neck of their captive and hanged him from a locust tree. |
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Thus, during Jim Crow, black men were routinely hanged, castrated, and lynched for alleged sexual assaults against white women. |
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Though Crippen was hanged for his wife's murder, Ethel's prosecution as an accessory after the fact in a subsequent trial was half-hearted and resulted in her acquittal. |
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Two hours later, Rebecca Zahau hanged herself from a balcony in an interior courtyard of the Coronado home. |
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A year later, four were hanged, even as evidence emerged revealing that the bomb may have been thrown by an agent provocateur in the employ of the police. |
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I have some friends who think the whole lot of them, including the cabinet of the CSA, should have been hanged. |
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I spent four years in the army to free a bunch of Dutchmen and Frenchmen, and I'm hanged if I'm going to let the Alabama version of the Germans kick me around when I get home. |
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Kelly hanged herself in her bedroom Nov. 8, scrawling the date of the alleged sexual contact, Sept. 26, on her wall. |
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It was said that an ordinary seaman on the Admiral's flagship publicly disagreed with this conclusion and was promptly hanged from the yardarm for his insubordination. |
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A living, doddering Lee was far less useful to the pitchfork crowd than a hanged, virile Lee would have been. |
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On Thursday, the focus was a 20-year-old in Detroit who hanged himself after ingesting Spice that he bought at a gas station. |
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Incidences of gay men being hanged in public have been graphically reported upon. |
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Around him, protesters burned effigies of the once revered king, chanting for him to be hanged as they began to move towards the heavily guarded royal palace. |
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Then there's Brother Mesquite from the monastery that ranches bison, and a nice joke about a cowboy who wears clothes all made of brown paper, who gets hanged for rustling. |
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Among the suicide cases, 61 hanged themselves, 12 took insecticides, one slit the wrists, another one jumped to death, while one committed suicide by self-immolation. |
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The Cleveland kidnapper exhibited several risk factors before he hanged himself. |
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Surratt was hanged, despite her apparent innocence, and the scene is both vivid and lurid as onlookers celebrate. |
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Are we about to see a revisionist pushback on how Hot Rod has already been hanged, drawn, and quartered? |
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They argue that even if all those on death row were to be hanged, the killings and murders would still continue, and may very well increase despite the hangings. |
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I oppose the death penalty, but not for Stephen's squeamish reasons that one innocent person in 100 might get hanged, My opposition is more visceral than that. |
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Three innocent people were hanged for their alleged part in his murder. |
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He was drawn for treason, hanged for homicide, disemboweled for sacrilege, and beheaded and quartered for plotting the king's death. |
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The teen hanged herself with a rope tied to the overhead door of a garage used by prostitutes. |
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There were unconfirmed reports last night that Joshua had hanged himself with his school tie. |
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It is difficult to imagine we are the same people who used to flock to see the guilty or the innocent burned alive, hanged, drawn and quartered, drowned or garroted. |
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Following a trial widely denounced as a sham, they were publicly hanged, their bodies burned with acid and dumped in a common grave. |
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It's 25 years since Ian Curtis hanged himself, casting a long shadow on Joy Division's already sombre music. |
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He was posthumously attainted of treason, and along with those of other deceased regicides, his corpse was exhumed and hanged, and his skull impaled in Westminster Hall. |
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This point is illustrated in the case of the inmate who hanged himself in a standing position. |
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In 1813, for example, a 13-year-old boy was hanged in Montreal for stealing a cow. |
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His traveling companion, he learned later, was a cutpurse who had fled justice, only to be caught soon after his arrival in Lund and summarily hanged. |
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A 70 cm-large hanged garden with melliferous plants will be integrated along the walls. |
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When a criminal is captured, is he immediately dragged off to a scaffold to be hanged? |
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On 19 January 1649 a young girl of 15 or 16 was hanged for theft in the town of Quebec. |
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How could Government ministers and a head of State be sentenced to death and hanged? |
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Countless Yeomem Indians were hanged throughout Sonora, and countless more were rounded up and shipped to Oaxaca and the henequen plantations in Yucatan. |
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The shipwrecked sailors were brought before Alfred at Winchester and hanged. |
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That char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. |
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Richard Bryant was of this gang, as were Ben. Kayford and Geo. Ward and some others, all hanged at Gloucester, Bristol, Salisbury, and Ilchester. |
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William Kidd, for instance, began as a legitimate British privateer but was later hanged for piracy. |
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Gordian II was killed in the fighting and, on hearing this, Gordian I hanged himself with his belt. |
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On 29 April 1945, the corpses of Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and other Fascist leaders were hanged in Piazzale Loreto. |
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If the defendant was defeated and still alive, he was to be hanged on the spot. |
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Approvers sometimes were given their freedom after winning five trials but sometimes were hanged anyway. |
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What the United States is asking from Saddam Hussein, however, is not to prove his innocence but to provide evidence of his own guilt, that is, to put his own neck in the noose to be hanged or be bombed to smithereens. |
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Guernsey has never had sanctuary roads in the English sense, but if someone committed an offence for which they knew they could be hanged they could seek sanctuary in a church. |
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Those that were hanged or beheaded were almost never drug barons and kingpins – in most cases they were low-level carriers, almost always selected for their expendability, and often suffering from intellectual disability. |
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A Birmingham mother may have taken amphetamines at a Midland jail before she was found hanged in her cell, an inquest heard yesterday. |
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Early this year, a number of those arrested in the south-western city of Ahwaz were hanged in public following widespread antigovernment protests. |
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In the repression that followed, 328 Estonians were shot or hanged, and Päts and the Radical leader Jaan Teemant fled abroad, both having been sentenced in contumacy to death. |
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In a countermove, Cemal PaÅŸa, the Ottoman commander in chief, hanged 21 Arab nationalists on May 6, 1916, a day that is still commemorated as Martyrs' Day. |
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Charles Peace, a cat burglar hanged in 1879, is represented not just by his ingenious folding stepladder but by the violin with which he was apparently an excellent performer. |
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Most seriously of all, Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister Musharraf ousted in a coup in 1999, won a landslide victory and initiated a treason trial for which the former dictator could be hanged if found guilty. |
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In one run-down camp, living in a cramped room housing eight people, where clothes were hanged to the walls and valued possessions were stuffed under tiny bunk beds, was Hassan, a new arrival from Ghana. |
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They were sentenced to death and were hanged. |
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Dismounted for the occasion in Amsterdam and hanged as a painting on a wall of the gallery, it overcomes the rules of painting, architecture, and even physics. |
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He was hanged, and his head was cut off and displayed on a stake. |
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Until early 2010, the activist was held incommunicado at an unknown location, where he was reportedly hanged by his wrists and shackled to a wall for the first eight days of detention. |
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Yet women caught teaching were hanged, imprisoned or beaten for fulfilling children's fundamental human right to education, a violent use of state power for illegitimate aims. |
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On two of its columns there are depictions of four hanged figures, undoubtedly related to the public executions that were performed here centuries ago. |
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Some of those most worried about paedophiles think they should be hanged, castrated or face other punitive measures as the ultimate deterrent. |
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In another version of the story it was a young boy, one of the cannon primers or powder monkeys from the ship, who was hanged. |
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He was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered but because he was Edward's cousin he was given a quicker death by beheading. |
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His natural son Robert led an unsuccessful rebellion against James, and the Earl and his son were hanged. |
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On 20 May the Scottish Parliament sentenced him to death and had him hanged the next day. |
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In January 1661, the corpses of Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw were exhumed and hanged in chains at Tyburn. |
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Caracciolo was hanged aboard the Neapolitan frigate Minerva at 5 o'clock the same afternoon. |
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Counterfeiting was high treason, punishable by the felon being hanged, drawn and quartered. |
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Priests found celebrating Mass were often hanged, drawn and quartered, rather than being burned at the stake. |
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In 1660, English Quaker Mary Dyer was hanged on Boston Common for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. |
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Prior to the witch trials, nearly 300 men and women had been suspected of partaking in witchcraft and over 30 of these people were hanged. |
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Thomas Wintour begged to be hanged for himself and his brother, so that his brother might be spared. |
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Harrington was tortured on the rack, hanged until not quite dead, and then subjected to disembowelment. |
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Green, Madden and Simpson were subjected to derision and insults by the mob before they were hanged. |
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The king promised Llywelyn that if the charges were found true, he would be hanged. |
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Without the king's direction, he took Llywelyn Bren to Cardiff Castle where he had him hanged, drawn and quartered without a proper trial. |
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During the 17th century alone around 800 people were hanged each year in the British Empire. |
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Those who had participated in the uprising or assisted the rebels in any way were sentenced to be hanged and to have their property confiscated. |
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They hanged the Roman soldiers collecting the tax and forced the governor to flee to a Roman fort, which they then besieged. |
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Many bog bodies show signs of being stabbed, bludgeoned, hanged or strangled, or a combination of these methods. |
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During the turmoil, the last Ming emperor hanged himself on a tree in the imperial garden outside the Forbidden City. |
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Dudley and Stephens were convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged, however their sentence was later reduced to just six months in prison. |
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They proceeded slowly towards Delhi and fought, killed, and hanged numerous Indians along the way. |
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Nine of the rioters were hanged and a further 450 were transported to Australia. |
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Victor is helpless to stop her from being hanged, as he knows no one would believe his story. |
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On 24 February 1537 ten men from Mallerstang were hanged in the dale for taking part in the Pilgrimage of Grace. |
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One day, when her was quite young, her tooked a rope and went to the barn there on the Manaton Road, and hanged herself from a beam. |
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Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you. Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour. |
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Bissell said one of the most haunting spots he visited was Aceldama near Jerusalem, where Judas is said to have hanged himself. |
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Later, Shuler invokes the death of a schoolmate who hanged himself. |
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Tormented by a gang of three girls, the bright 12-year-old hanged herself from her bunkbed to escape their cruel taunts. |
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But yesterday Jabbari's mum Shole Pakravan confirmed her daughter had been hanged in a Tehran jail. |
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Nagy would subsequently be hanged after a secret, Soviet-dictated trial. |
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A PRISONER told an inquest how he woke to find his cellmate had hanged himself in the night. |
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Fars also reported that six men convicted of murder and drug trafficking were hanged on Jan 20 in the central city of Yazd. |
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He hanged himself despite attempts by other chatroom users to talk him out of committing suicide. |
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But take good care that you do not cut even a drachme, either more or less, for, if you do, you shall be condemned to be hanged. |
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And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out. |
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Those rioters who were caught were tried and hanged, or transported for life. |
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Felton was then hanged, and his body was chained to a gibbet on Southsea Common as a warning to others. |
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Ahithophel, Absalom's chief counsel, hanged himself when he lost face after his advice was rejected. |
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John Fisher was found guilty and condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. |
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If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. It could not be else. I have drunk medicines. |
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It was from this tunnel the body of William Burke was taken after he had been hanged. |
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Turner and his followers were hanged, and Turner's body was flayed. |
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The crew of Bartholomew Roberts preferred not to be taken alive and swore to blow themselves up rather than give the authorities the satisfaction of seeing them hanged. |
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William Wood who was convicted and hanged for taking his captains money after he and another sailor got in an argument with him and threw him overboard. |
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Ham hanged himself in his garage studio in Woking later that morning. |
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He gave a detailed demonstration of how he actually hanged a man, unfortunately the stool was accidentally kicked away and Burrows almost hanged himself. |
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Dafydd was taken to Edward on the night of his capture, then moved under heavy guard by way of Chester to Shrewsbury where in October he was hanged, drawn and quartered. |
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In 1461, Paolo Fregoso, archbishop of Genoa, enticed the current doge to his own palace, held him hostage and offered him the choice of retiring from the post or being hanged. |
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An enduring military presence was established in the city in 1795 with the construction of a depot on land where the Hawkhurst Gang had been hanged. |
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He was dragged through the streets, hanged, drawn and quartered. |
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Bottom is told by Quince that he would do the Lion so terribly as to frighten the duchess and ladies enough for the Duke and Lords to have the players hanged. |
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To restore order, several soldiers were flogged and four hanged. |
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She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace? |
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Ten men were hanged in November 1946 but Hermann Gring committed suicide by swallowing a smuggled cyanid pill hours before his scheduled execution. |
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A law passed a year later allowed vagabonds to be whipped and hanged. |
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Although in theory this left Bonnet and Teach at risk of being hanged for their actions at Charles Town Bar, most authorities could waive such conditions. |
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At America's first witch trial, Hugh was found innocent, while Mary was acquitted of witchcraft but sentenced to be hanged for the death of her child. |
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Oliver Cromwell was given an elaborate funeral there in 1658, only to be disinterred in January 1661 and posthumously hanged from a gibbet at Tyburn. |
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He was hanged by Albert Pierrepoint, who had dispatched characters such as William Joyce, aka Lord Haw-Haw, and German war criminals Irma Grese and Elisabeth Volkenrath. |
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Delano and five of his crew were hanged from the ship's yardarms. |
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A remote ancestor was a Father Nicholas Sheehy, framed and hanged for whiteboyism in the late eighteenth century in what amounted to an exercise in judicial murder. |
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The Jemadar Ishwari Prasad was sentenced to death and hanged on 22 April. |
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The excellentissimus princeps Jaquintus, who had led the rebellion of the city, was hanged, along with many of his followers, but the city avoided being sacked. |
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She isn't hanged, while in jail, because she pleads the belly. |
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Another legend alleges that a common sailor on the flagship, tried to warn Shovell that the fleet was off course but Shovell had him hanged at the yardarm for inciting mutiny. |
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