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Isolated inside its own fenced courtyard, the small building is known simply enough as the execution chamber. Between the years of 1937 and 1989, 39 or 40 (depending on the source) inmates were put to death inside the structure. All of the executions, save one, were conducted in the state's gas chamber where the sealed unit was filled with cyanide gas. The sole exception was the prison's last execution on January 26, 1989.
Missouri State Penitentiary
Jefferson City Missouri
Cole County
Mary Stuart was obviously someone who was better off having on your side... And even that didn't protect you from possible betrayal.
Intrigues and betrayal seem to have been the driving force of her life, until her execution, she continued these politico-religious intrigues!
A woman of character, as they say!
Blues for Elliott, just 50% of the stereo is painted? We don't even have the usual and beautiful woodwork.
Influenced by its subject?
But we've all had days without...
Marie Stuart était visiblement quelqu'un qu'il fallait mieux avoir de son côté… Et encore, cela ne vous mettait point à l'abri d'une éventuelle trahison.
Intrigues et trahison justement semble avoir été le moteur de sa vie. Jusqu'à son exécution, elle a continué ces intrigues politico-religieuses !
Une femme de caractère, comme on dit !
Coup de blues pour Elliott, juste 50 % de la stéréo est peinte ? Nous n'avons même pas droit à ces boiseries habituelles et si belles.
Influencé par son sujet ?
Mais on a tous connu des jours sans…
Execution Rocks Lighthouse is located in Long Island Sound. Legend has it that the British used to chain prisoners to the rocks at low tide and wait for them to drown as the tide came in. The lighthouse was built in the 1840's and recently handed over to a non-profit for restoration. It is a 30 minute boat ride away from the shore, and has no electricity or running water, plus it is rumored to be haunted.
Execution Rocks Lighthouse is located in Long Island Sound. Legend has it that the British used to chain prisoners to the rocks at low tide and wait for them to drown as the tide came in. The lighthouse was built in the 1840's and recently handed over to a non-profit for restoration. It is a 30 minute boat ride away from the shore, and has no electricity or running water, plus it is rumored to be haunted.
Just one girl from the thousands of photos displayed in Tuol Sleng
Holocaust Museum near Phenom Penh, Cambodia. Around 18,000-20,000
people pased though the Tuol Sleng detention centre where they were
photographed before being tortured and executed. 7 people survived.
We will never know what this particular girl's "crimes" were. She
looks kind of smart as well as dignified and composed in the face of
death. Maybe her father could read and write: enough for the whole
family to be executed as "intellectuals".
The chair where Josef Jakobs, the German Spy was executed during 1941. This was the last execution in the Tower of London.
Where danish members of the resistance where executed by the german soldiers and gestapo during WW2 and the occupation of Denmark april 9 th 1940 - may 5th 1945.
The stone (plaque) where the shooters stood says:
"Boys you boys
you lit for Denmark
In the darkest night
a bright dawn".
80. výročí popravy československých vlastenců vězněných po heydrichiádě v koncentračním táboře Mauthausen (A).
80th anniversary of the execution of Czechoslovak patriots imprisoned after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in the Mauthausen concentration camp (Austria).
From the exhibition catalog: "Hrair Sarkissian's series Execution Squares depicts public execution squares in three Syrian cities -- Aleppo, Lattakia, and Damascus. Taking in the early morning hours, the time the executions usually take plae, the quiet images reveal a fragile paradox that exists between the beauty and constancy of the physical environment and the political and social realities that they obscure."
(The installation consisted of 12 Lambada prints mounted on aluminum; work is dated 2008.)
In 1942, 100 tanks of the execution were delivered M without weapons company MIAG on Waggonfabrik Wegmann in Kassel, where III was converted to the flame tank. The name of the vehicles is officially "Panzerkampfwagen III (FL) (Sd.Kfz. 1413)". Instead the cannon was used a 1.5 m long flame nozzle with a 14 mm nozzle, up to above 10° and down 20° swing left. The two machine guns were retained. A pump with a DKW two-stroke engine powered flame oil was pumped to the blast tube and brought by high voltage to the ignition. The oil reservoir of 1023 litres was carried in tanks, which were located on both sides of the Interior. As protection, strong front of vehicle with 30 mm and 20 mm strong armor plate Tower front was reinforced the 50 mm; the page armor remained the same. For two or three seconds duration could be given up to 80 bursts with a range of up to 60 m. The crew of 23 tons and equipped with two radios vehicle consisted of three men. The use of the flame tank was for the first time in 1943 in special departments, the a Soll-Bestand of two armored command car III, 12 Panzer II, two tanks III version N and 10 flame tanks III had.
Idiris, a Somali Christian, was publicly executed in a stadium in front of many people, including school children, for saying that Muhammad is not a prophet of God.
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Summers & Koontz Executions
On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended. Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz, and two other armed veterans of Co. D, 7th Virginia Cavalry, robbed six Federal
cavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock. The horses were returned the next day to the 192d Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Rude’s Hill. Despite assurances that all was forgiven, Lt. Col. Cyrus Hussy, temporarily commanding the 192nd, later ordered the men arrested. The others escaped, but Summers and Koontz were shot without trial here on 27 June. Thirty years later, Capt. Thomas J. Adams and friends erected the nearby monument to commemorate their deaths.
Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, c.1623-5
Artemisia Gentileschi
This magnificent painting is the pinnacle of Artemisia's response to the powerful naturalism, bold use of colour and dramatic lighting effects made popular by Caravaggio and his followers. Here, by the light of a single candle, Judith and her maidservant prepare to make their escape from the enemy camp under cover of darkness. The monumental scale of this canvas and the figures' theatrical gestures contrast with the claustrophobic intimacy of Artemisia's earlier rendition of the subject.
[National Gallery]
From Artemisia
(October 2020 to January 2021)
"I will show Your Illustrious Lordship what a woman can do"
In 17th-century Europe, at a time when women artists were not easily accepted, Artemisia was exceptional. She challenged conventions and defied expectations to become a successful artist and one of the greatest storytellers of her time.
Artemisia painted subjects that were traditionally the preserve of male artists and for the male gaze; transforming meek maidservants into courageous conspirators and victims into survivors.
In this first major exhibition of Artemisia’s work in the UK, see her best-known paintings including two versions of her iconic and viscerally violent ‘Judith beheading Holofernes’; as well as her self portraits, heroines from history and the Bible, and recently discovered personal letters, seen in the UK for the first time.
[National Gallery]
The Gate of Victory (Triumphpforte) is one of the most famous sights of Innsbruck. It is located at the southern end of today's Maria-Theresien street, at that time the southern city exit.
This triumphal arch was built in 1765 on the occasion of the wedding of Archduke Leopold, the second son of Empress Maria Theresia and Francis Stephen of Lorraine, with the Spanish princess Maria Ludovica on 5 August of the same year. Since Leopold's father Franz Stephan unexpectedly shortly after the wedding on 18 August 1765 died, funeral motives were also processed on the occasion of his death in the triumphal arch. The south side shows motives in the sense of the wedding of the young couple, the north side those which refer to the death of the emperor.
In Innsbruck, contrary to other practices, it was decided not to build the portal of triumph of wood but of stone. Thereby, cubes from Höttinger breccia, which come from the broken gate in front of the town at the exit of the old town in today's Maria-Theresien street, were reused. The execution was carried out by Constantin Walter and Johann Baptist Hagenauer. In 1774, the reliefs created by Hagenauer in stucco were worked by Balthasar Ferdinand Moll in Sterzinger marble.
The relief decoration shows both symbols of the Habsburg monarchy and personal and event-related representations:
the Austrian Archduke hat with the Order of the Golden Fleece
the Bohemian Wenceslas crown with the Hungarian St. Stephen's Order donated by Maria Theresia
a representation of Empress Maria Theresia and Franz Stephan with laurel wreath and portrait medallions of the two
a profile presentation of the wedding couple Archduke Leopold and Princess Maria Ludovica
Portraits of the Duchess Caroline of Lorraine and Duke Charles of Lorraine, relatives of the Emperor
Die Triumphpforte gehört zu den bekanntesten Sehenswürdigkeiten von Innsbruck. Sie befindet sich am südlichen Ende der heutigen Maria-Theresien-Straße, seinerzeit dem südlichen Stadtausgang.
Erbaut wurde dieser Triumphbogen 1765 aus Anlass der Hochzeit von Erzherzog Leopold, dem zweiten Sohn von Kaiserin Maria Theresia und Franz Stephan von Lothringen, mit der spanischen Prinzessin Maria Ludovica am 5. August 1765. Da Leopolds Vater Franz Stephan unerwartet kurz nach der Hochzeit am 18. August 1765 starb, wurden auch Trauermotive anlässlich seines Todes in der Triumphpforte verarbeitet. Die Südseite zeigt Motive im Sinne der Hochzeit des jungen Paares, die Nordseite solche, die auf den Tod des Kaisers hinweisen.
In Innsbruck entschied man sich entgegen sonstigen Usancen dafür, die Triumphpforte nicht aus Holz, sondern aus Stein zu erbauen. Dabei wurden Quader aus Höttinger Brekzie, welche aus dem abgebrochenen Vorstadttor am Ausgang der Altstadt in die heutige Maria-Theresien-Straße stammen, wiederverwendet. Die Ausführung oblag Constantin Walter und Johann Baptist Hagenauer. 1774 wurden die von Hagenauer in Stuck angelegten Reliefs durch Balthasar Ferdinand Moll in Sterzinger Marmor gearbeitet.
Der reliefierte Bildschmuck zeigt sowohl Staatssymbole der Habsburgermonarchie wie auch personen- und ereignisbezogene Darstellungen:
der österreichische Erzherzogshut mit dem Orden vom Goldenen Vlies
die böhmische Wenzelskrone mit dem von Maria gestifteten ungarischen Stephansorden
eine Darstellung von Kaiserin Maria Theresia und Franz Stephan mit Lorbeerkranz und Portraitmedaillons der beiden
eine Profildarstellung des Hochzeitspaares Erzherzog Leopold und Prinzessin Maria Ludovica
Porträts der Herzogin Karoline von Lothringen und des Herzogs Karl von Lothringen, Verwandte des Kaisers
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do not use this photo without my approval. copyright by sylvie lorenz.
During the National Socialist dictatorship from 1938 to 1945 was in this building the place of execution, in which women and men from Austria as well as from many other European countries were beheaded for their political beliefs, national origin or because of their faith. Honor to all of the Victims! The city of Graz in 1988. Austrian League for Human Rights
Während der Nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft von 1938 bis 1945 befand sich in diesem Gebäude jene Hinrichtungsstätte, in der Frauen und Männer aus Österreich wie aus vielen anderen Europäischen Ländern wegen ihrer politischen Überzeugung, nationalen Herkunft oder wegen ihres Glaubens enthauptet wurden. Ehre Allen Opfern! Die Stadt Graz 1988. Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
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History and judicial organization
The Revolution of 1848 marked also the Austria jurisdiction of that time in a substantial manner with manifestations that act to the present day. The with this associated judicial organization brought then - here particularly interesting - most of all four court levels or court types: District Courts, Higher Civil Courts (Landesgerichte), Higher Regional Courts (Oberlandesgerichte) and a Supreme Court. To those four kinds of courts, the procedures of first instance - differentiated by sum in dispute or seriousness of the offense - and the review of judicial decisions on appeal were distributed in a manageable manner. That in the course of this the (only) Supreme Court already at the time of the monarchy could be found in Vienna is understandable, that it remained there from 1918 until today (apart from the period of National Socialism) is known.
The next level below the Supreme Court was and is formed by the High Regional Courts. In 1855 there were in the whole Empire nineteen, today there are four in Austria, namely in Vienna, Linz, Innsbruck and Graz. They act primarily as appellate courts. Next come the so-called courts of first instance. This generic term was necessary because there were, besides the regional courts also district courts - partly later - special courts for commercial, youth, labor and social welfare cases or should be. Of all these existed at the time of the monarchy, of course, already a significant number, in the area of present-day Austria were originally seventeen, today there are twenty after the Juvenile Court in Vienna had been dissolved in 2003 (Federal Law Gazette 30/2003). The district of the Higher Regional Court of Graz accounts for the Regional Court for Civil Matters and the National Criminal Court in Graz, the Klagenfurt Regional Court and the Regional Court of Leoben. The lowest level eventually was formed by the district courts. "Lowest" in this context is of course no rating but merely an expression of the position in the structure of jurisdiction. In Styria there were initially 45 district courts, including the district of the Provincial Court of Leoben 22 (Reich Law Gazette 339/1849). Those were merged over time. District courts are now still in Schladming, Liezen, Murau, Judenburg, Mürzzuschlag, Bruck/Mur and Leoben. Aside from court consolidations, modifications of the district sizes, responsibility shifts caused by changes in the value limits and also renamings there were naturally in the past 160 years repeatedly also suggestions or ideas for actual substantive changes of this Court System. For example, there was talk of dissolving the Courts of First Instance and to distribute their agendas to the district courts. Or these courts should be strengthened and therefore waived of the Higher Regional Court. Nothing of it gained majority, the from the mid-19th Century stemming basic system remained established and is valid until today .
THE REGIONAL COURT LEOBEN
After creating the legal basis for the new judicial organization, it was now about to implement them. It arose the familiar question of "where" and "with whom". The decision for Leoben was already on 25th July in 1849 published (Reich Law Gazette 339/1849) and also the top management for Upper Styria was very soon decided. As of 28/12/1849 the previous "Council of the Styrian state law" Dr. Heinrich Perissutti was appointed President of the Provincial Court of Leoben. He took on 18 February 1850 in Graz his oath of office and actually was taking up activities on 4 April 1850. He moved - then granted - to Leoben, there is evidence that he had lived at Unteren Platz, house number 121 (today Timmerdorfer lane 2). The accommodation question for the court in Leoben also could be settled successfully in a short time. This should move into the former Dominican monastery (now Land Registry 60327, Leoben register number 103), a building that was owned by the city of Leoben and the judiciary has been left to everlasting time for its own purposes (Treaty of 11 August 1853). This had to be adapted but only for the new task and it did take some time but, that is to say early summer 1856.
The aforementioned modifications of the judicial organization were in the first years in Leoben area relatively noticeable. Firstly, the High Regional Courts of Graz and Klagenfurt were merged with headquarters in Graz (1852 enacted and 1854 implemented) and on the other hand it came to a "downgrating" as to the label of the Provincial Court Leoben to a "district court" (19 January 1853).
The First World War, the downfall of the monarchy, the First Republic and the Corporate State brought in Upper Styria as to judicial organization only one significant, lasting change. The district courts Aflenz, Mautern and Obdach were merged with neighboring courts (Federal Law Gazette 187/1923, 276/1923). With the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1938 but went down the country's independent judiciary. Justice solely "In the name of the German people" should be distributed and probably to some extend it had a different status than before. Pure terminologically, the county court became a Higher District Court, the district courts have mutated into local courts (Journal of Laws for the country Austria 350/1938). What changed further was the area of the district. The Ausseerland was separated from Styria and the Gau (administrative district) of "Upper Danube" and thus to the district of the Higher District Court in Wels assigned.
After the end of the Second World War it came to the restoration of the on 13 March 1938 existing judicial organization, Bad Aussee, therefore, returned to the district of the Court of Leoben (State Gazette 47/1945). There were other changes. The most significant over time was probably that the1946 set up labor courts, which had replaced the earlier commercial courts, together with the arbitration courts of the Social Insurance and the mediation courts on 1 January 1987 merged in the ordinary jurisdiction (Federal Law Gazette 104/1985).
As already indicated, the terminology of the Leoben Court of Justice was subject to alterations. Beginning of 1849 had been created among other things the "Higher District Court" Leoben. With Order of 19 January 1853 (Reich Law Gazette 10/1853) to "District Court" downgraded, the Nazis transformed the term from 13 August 1938 (Journal of Laws for the country of Austria 350/1938 ) into "Higher District Court". The Court Organization Act of 3 July 1945 (State Gazette 47/1945) re-established the "District Court", until on the first of March 1993 the time came that the most original denomination "Higher District Court" was again brought back to life (Federal Law Gazette 91/1993). Without that during the whole period of the responsibilities and tasks anything really notheworthy would have changed, the Court in Leoben got three different names in five time periods.
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Execution Rocks Lighthouse is located in Long Island Sound. Legend has it that the British used to chain prisoners to the rocks at low tide and wait for them to drown as the tide came in. The lighthouse was built in the 1840's and recently handed over to a non-profit for restoration. It is a 30 minute boat ride away from the shore, and has no electricity or running water, plus it is rumored to be haunted.
Execution Rocks Lighthouse is located in Long Island Sound. Legend has it that the British used to chain prisoners to the rocks at low tide and wait for them to drown as the tide came in. The lighthouse was built in the 1840's and recently handed over to a non-profit for restoration. It is a 30 minute boat ride away from the shore, and has no electricity or running water, plus it is rumored to be haunted.