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Execution: the guillotine, the pendulum, the thousand cuts, the Spanish donkey, and 66 other ways of putting someone to death
Execution: the guillotine, the pendulum, the thousand cuts, the Spanish donkey, and 66 other ways of putting someone to death
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Abbott, G. (Geoffrey)
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
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Bastinado
Beaten to death
Boiled alive
Brazen bull
Broken on the wheel
Buried alive
Buried alive upside-down
Burned at the stake
Burned internally
Cannibalism
Cauldron
Cave of roses
Crucifixion
Cyphon
Diele
Drowning
Dry pan
Eaten by animals
Eaten by crocodiles
Electric chair
Firing squad
Flayed alive
Fried to death
Gas chamber
Gibbet
Gridiron
Guillotine
Gunpowder
Halifax gibbet
Hanged alive in chains
Hanged at the yard-arm
Hanged, drawn and quartered
Hanging
Hara-kiri
Impaled by stakes
Iron chair
Iron maiden
Keel-hauling
Lethal injection
Mannaia
Mazzatello
Mill wheel
Nail through the ear
Necklacing
Over a cannon's muzzle
Pendulum
Poison
Pressed to death
ack
Sawn in half
Scaphismus
Scottish maiden
Sewn in an animal's belly
Shot by arrows
Spanish donkey
Starvation
Stoned to death
Strangulation
Suffocation
Sword
Thousand cuts
Throat slitting
Thrown from a great height
Tied in a sack with animals
Torn apart between tow trees
Torn apart by boats
Torn apart by horses
Twenty-four cuts
Miscellaneous
Jargon of the underworld.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment -- History
Executions and executioners
Executions and executioners -- Encyclopedias
Executions and executioners -- History
History
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9780312352226
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