...At which they were both found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, on the 15th of October. /... by Watt, Robert, -1794

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Execution the guillotine, the pendulum, the thousand cuts, the Spanish donkey, and 66 other ways of putting someone to death by Abbott, Geoffrey. 1922-2016-

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Rookwood family papers, 1606-1761

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Execution : the guillotine, the pendulum, the thousand cuts, the Spanish donkey, and 66 other ways of putting someone to death by Abbott, G. (Geoffrey), 1922-

Table of Contents: “…Axe -- 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 -- Rack -- 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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The history of torture and execution by Kellaway, Jean

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Early civilizations -- Death by the Nile -- Tyranny of the Greeks -- Martyrs of the arena -- Stoning -- Crucifixion -- Roman torture -- The first millennium -- The Vikings -- The Druids -- Slow death in China -- The Anglo-Saxons -- The bog bodies -- The end of the millennium -- Before the age of reason -- Ax and block -- Victims -- Swordsmen -- The bloody codes -- Traffic at Tyburn -- A festival of death -- Hanged, drawn and quartered -- The gibbet -- Burning -- Execution devices in Europe -- Water torture -- Amputation -- Banding -- The pillory -- Whipping -- Torture chamber -- Pressing to death -- Witch hunts in Europe -- Witch hunts in England -- The Salem sensation -- Papal inquisition -- Knights Templars -- The stifling of science -- Dungeons -- Jails -- A new world -- Poor houses -- Clapped in irons -- Asylums -- Prison reforms -- Silent and solitary confinement -- Transportation -- Hulks -- Hangmen -- Cheating the gallows -- Hanging : the drop -- Hangings behind closed doors -- Penalties for piracy -- Slavery -- Slave punishment -- Army discipline -- Navy discipline -- Forerunners of the guillotine -- The guillotine's innovators -- Guillotine in overdrive -- The 20th century -- Execution in the 21st century -- Last days of the guillotine -- Electric chair -- Gas chamber -- Lethal injection -- Firing squad -- Hanging and the judicial system -- Death row, USA -- A view from death row -- Death row, Asia -- Drug offenders and their fate -- State-sponsored torture -- Chain gangs -- Bloody money -- Prison conditions -- Crimes against the state -- Lynchings -- Concentration camps -- War crimes of the First World War -- Gulags -- War crimes of the Second World War -- War crimes in Asia -- Justice at Nuremberg -- Ethnic cleansing -- Conclusion -- Glossary.…”


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The king's revenge : Charles II and the greatest manhunt in British history by Jordan, Don, 1948-, Walsh, Mike, 1940-

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The King's Revenge : Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Jordan, Don, 1948-, Walsh, Mike, 1940-

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