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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.
Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833, oil on canvas, 246 x 297 cm (The National Gallery, London)
AICL Projects (subsidiary of Asia Imperial Cargo Logistics and GPLN member
in Taiwan) recently completed the transportation service of a scanning car
from Smiths Detection. The car came via RRO vessel, from Le Havre, France
to Keelung, Taiwan. Along with the port handling, AICL also undertook the
customs clearance, inland transport and special handling execution to safely
deliver the scanning car via low bed trailer to end user's door, Taiwan
Customs Authority, with their highest satisfaction.
Since the client requested delivery of this 4 m-high scanning car by truck
from discharging port Keelung to the jobsite, Taipei Port, AICL was faced
one immediate problem: How to get it through a tunnel, 5.2 m at its highest
point, on the way to Taipei Port. Although the low bed trailer was 0.8 m
high only, it was not certain whether there was really no problem to move
the cargo through the tunnel. Before the cargo arrived AICL conducted a road
survey along with the trucking company and the consignee to insure the
scanning car could be moved through the tunnel with no difficulty. In
addition, discussions were held with Customs as with regard to the commodity
tax application for x-ray machine as this procedure is rather complicated in
Taiwan. A complete Customs / transport plan was prepared and carried out to
a successful completion and satisfaction to all concerned parties.
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Even as just a debuting Maiko, Teruyo has invested much work into her performance! It takes good attention and dexterity for perfect timing.
This room contains 131 nooses hanging from the ceiling, representing the 131 government opponents who were executed under apartheid South Africa's antiterrorism laws.
The government claimed that many other political prisoners had committed suicide. It is well known and accepted now that many were tortured to death.
A pillar in St Mary’s Church Oxford. In the middle sections of the pillar have been cut away; done so sometime in March 1556.The pillar had been cut to accommodate a low platform. The intent was to create a public place for Thomas Cranmer to publicly recant his faith thus resulting in a significant propaganda coup for the government, the church and the monarch, Queen Mary I.
Thomas Cranmer, who was archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, Edward VI and into the reign of Mary I, along with being one of the chief architects of the English Reformation, was arrested during the reign of the Catholic Queen Mary I due to the fact that he was a political and religious opponent. Pressure was exerted on Cranmer to recant his Protestant beliefs and the authorities understood the significant propaganda value that could be derived from Cranmer’s defeat. Cranmer had been deeply involved in the English Reformation and for him to renounce his beliefs would have been a significant blow to his cause. After extensive pressure Cranmer did recant several times and signed the necessary literature. However despite the fact that under church law a repented heretic was pardoned, his execution continued to be planned.
On 21st March 1556, Cranmer left his prison and was escorted in the rain to the church. He was placed in the specially built platform by this pillar and listened whilst Dr Henry Cole explained Cranmer’s sins and why he had been sentenced to die despite his recantation. In addition Cranmer was expected to recant publicly before being taken to the stake. However things did not go according to plan. Understanding that death was imminent, that recanting could not save him and feeling significant guilt over his recantation, Cranmer proceeded to speak out against Catholicism. He refuted his recantation and publicly branded the pope as ‘Christ’s enemy’ and ‘the Antichrist’. At that point he was taking down from the pulpit and taken to the place of execution on Broad Street. When the fagots had been lit he is believed to have stuck his right hand into the heart of the fire. It was with that hand that he had signed his recantation and so allegedly he allowed it to be destroyed first as penance.
Cranmer’s death was a notable disaster for Mary and her government. It cast doubts as to the legality of the heresy trials and instead of representing Cranmer as a traitor and a heretic, he was hailed instead as a martyr. Cranmer’s recantation had provided the government, the Catholic Church and Mary I with a huge victory. Had they continued to let him live or had him killed on political charges, they may have maintained that victory. Yet Mary and Cardinal Pole believed firmly in Cranmer’s guilt as a heretic and therefore pressed for a death that fuelled the image of a martyr instead of a traitor or political deviant. Despite the image of ‘Bloody Mary’, Mary I usually had little connection personally with the accused heretics; rather she supported the system of persecution itself. But with Cranmer a deep personal tone was introduced, owing to her grievances with that individual. It is perhaps a mistake to use Cranmer’s death as a representation of Mary overall – it was in many ways such an unusual and confounding situation and it does not highlight Mary’s qualities found in other aspects of her reign and affairs. However it does highlight how Mary, like her Tudor relatives, could peruse personal vendettas and remove those who displeased her, both politically and spiritually.
هذا رجل اطفاء ما كان يؤدي عمله بشكل جيد فقررت إعدامه ليكون عبره للآخرين :)
وأحب أشكر أبو ناصر على المعاونة العظيمة في الورشة شكرا جزيلا لك .
Site of the pawpaw tree incident where three McCoy brothers were tied to the trees and shot in 1882. This was just on the Kentucky side of the river outside of Matewan, WV.
The historical marker at the site reads: "Pawpaw Tree Incident: This episode is result of 1882 election-day fight. Tolbert, a son of Randolph McCoy, exchanged heated words with Ellison Hatfield, which started a fight. Tolbert, Pharmer and Randolph McCoy Jr. stabbed Ellison to death. Later the three brothers were captured by Hatfield clan, tied to the pawpaw trees, and shot in retaliation."
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Iguana societies are not the forgiving kind.
Actually, I have no idea what happened here. This is how I found it. Whatever it is, I am sure it is not a touristic promotion scheme.
Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
Editor: George Woodcock
Cover: Engraving of the Execution of Louis XVI on 21 January 1793
Penguin English Library, 1970, EL54
*PLEASE e-mail /fax/call Georgia's Board of Pardons to stop the execution on Sept 23, 2008, of Troy Anthony Davis. Last year he was scheduled to die on July 17th, 2007 - but with enough protests, emails, and phone calls, the Board held off on his execution date.
1 year later, Amnesty International is still working hard in this corrupt-against-blacks US system and most recently he was denied clemency on Sept 12 - so he is still scheduled to die on Sept 23, 2008. The worst part is that Georgia is 1 of 3 states where the governor can't grant clemency, so really all appeals must be made to the George Board of Pardons.
Just keep in mind that with enough protests from citizens and organizations, his execution was held off last year. It can happen again this year. Please find a way to do something about this - e-mail, blog, vlog, twitter, flickr, change your ghcat-im status - whatever you can do!
More than 20,000 people signs petitions. " Four thousand letters were received by the board written on his behalf, including letters written by Desmond Tutu, Harry Belafonte, and former FBI director William Sessions.[6] Sister Helen Prejean, Amnesty International US director Larry Cox, and the Council of Europe all spoke out against the planned execution.[7] The Vatican's nuncio to the U.S., Monsignor Martin Krebs, sent a letter on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI to Governor of Georgia Sonny Perdue urging him to spare Davis's life." <h href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Anthony_Davis"from wikipedia
This is what ex-FBI director, William S. Sessions, has to say about the case.
for more info, read this recent NY Times article.
Amnesty Intl provides clear instructions on how to protest this.
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written on July 16th, 2007
The execution of Troy Anthony Davis is set for tomorrow, July 17th. Send an e-mail to protest it.
Amnesty International says that "Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of Police Officer Mark Allen McPhail in Georgia. The case against him consisted entirely of witness testimony which contained inconsistencies even at the time of the trial. Since then, all but two of the state's nine non-police witnesses from the trial have recanted their testimony. Many of these witnesses have stated in sworn affidavits that they were pressured or coerced by police into testifying or signing statements against Troy Davis."
I understand the reality of stopping this will probably not materialize (which brings me back to when I angrily wrote about Stanley "Tookie" William's execution a few years ago) - but silence is worse - and even if his execution isn't stopped tomorrow, at least the Georgia state will see the intense the opposition is and *may* prompt them or some individuals to re-think the death-row policy.
Davis's case is especially apalling in the high error of its evidence (purported witnesses), and even members of Congress have written to Georgia's Board of Pardons. "Nobel-prize winner Rev. Desmond Tutu, singer Harry Belafonte, actor Mike Farrell, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL), Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Sister Helen Prejean, Sam D. Millsap, Jr. (former D.A. of Bexar County, TX), record producer and activist Russell Simmons and Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation are among those who have voiced support for clemency." (From Amnesty Intl)
So send an e-mail or fax to Georgia's Board of Pardons. Amnesty makes this very easy - you can do it all online here
*this is an update that I wrote on Sept 16, 2008
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.
The February 10, 1951 national edition of the Afro American headlines the mass execution of the Martinsville 7 in Virginia.
The Martinsville 7 were seven African American men convicted of raping a white woman in 1949. All 45 men executed in Virginia’s electric chair in 1951 for the crime of rape were black men convicted of assaulting white women.
For more information and other images, see www.flickr.com/photos/washington_area_spark/sets/72157643...
Frontal shot of the Wall of Death at Auschwitz I concentration camp. The wall used as a backdrop for many prisoner executions by firing squad.
On May 12th,1916, Connolly was shot by firing squad. He had been taken by military ambulance to Kilmainham Prison, carried on a stretcher to a courtyard in the prison, tied to a chair and shot. With the other executed rebels, his body was put into a mass grave with no coffin. All the executions of the rebels angered many Irish people who had shown little support for the rebels during the rebellion. However, it was the circumstances of Connolly’s execution that created the most anger. In death, Connolly and the other rebels had succeeded in rousing many Irish people who had been, at best, indifferent to the rebels and their desires when they had been alive. (From www.historylearningsite.co.uk/james_connolly.htm)