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The Execution platform at Alanya Fortress gave the victim a 700 meter bounce to the sea. It was not possible to avoid the rocky sides or to halt before the bottom. Alanya_02
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.
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
this is hokum, he's 15, he's about 10 seconds away from crudely beheading this chicken with a 99-cent store steak knife, its vocal chords were still intact after he took its head off so it screamed and writhed quite a bit. and then we ate it. sean has the video.
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".
Kurdish political prisoners Farzad Kamangar, Ali Haydarian, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alam Hooli and Mehdi Eslamian were executed by Iranian Islamic regime on May 9th 2010.
Kurdish people and Iranian opposition groups demonstrated to condemn execution of political prisoners.
The Kurds and Iranians living in Finland arranged several demonstrations as well.
These photos were taken on demonstration held on May 15th 2010.
3D red/cyan anaglyph created from photographic print on stereo card (albumen) at Library of Congress - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog at:
LOC Title: Execution of the conspirators -- the drop
Date: July 7, 1865
Photographer: Alexander Gardner (1821 - 1882)
Notes: Civil War photographers Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan were the only ones allowed to photograph the execution of the "Lincoln Conspirators". For this shot they used a multi-lens camera and shortly after, Stereo Card No. 982 "The Drop" was on sale to the public, allowing anyone to see the moment the "trap was sprung" in three-dimensional stereo, using the stereoscopic viewers of the day. Note the 3 cent Civil War tax stamp on the reverse. -PT
Red/Cyan (not Red/Blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting.
Picketers protesting the pending execution of Willie McGee pass the White House in Washington, D.C. sometime in the winter/spring of 1951.
McGee, charged with raping a white woman in Missisissippi in November 1945, was executed two days later despite a six-year campaign by the Civil Rights Congress that involved protests and legal maneuvering that resulted in two re-trials and numerous postponements.
McGee wrote to his wife the night before his execution, “Tell the people the real reason they are going to take my life is to keep the Negro down.... They can't do this if you and the children keep on fighting. Never forget to tell them why they killed their daddy. I know you won't fail me. Tell the people to keep on fighting. Your truly husband, Will McGee.
McGee was executed May 8, 1951.
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Photographer is unknown. The image is an auction find.
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.
"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels." ~Faith Whittlesey
Execution Dock was near the shoreline at Wapping and was used for over 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers. Captain William Kidd is probably the most famous pirate to meet his death there in 1701. His corpse was put into a gibbet, a metal framed cage, and was left hanging at Tilbury Docks for 3 years. With the last execution in 1830, the exact location of Execution Dock is not known today but it’s claimed to be in the area where two pubs stand, the Prospect of Whitby and the Town of Ramsgate with the latter being the most likely. Round the back of the Prospect of Whitby there is a gallows with a noose hanging from it commemorating the location of Execution Dock.
Commissioner Jill Sommers delivers her opening remarks during a meeting of the Technology Advisory Committee, which convened to discuss pre-trade functionality, direct market access controls and costs and technology challenges in implementing the trade execution, processing and records management requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act.
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 Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name, although it does state that the photography was by Greville of Maidenhead. The image is a glossy real photograph.
The card was posted in Cheltenham on Thursday the 14th. September 1961 to:
Misses Elliott,
Swan House,
Harpole,
Northants.
The message on the divided back was as follows:
"We hope you arrived
in good time, with no
mishaps on the way.
We all enjoyed seeing
you both very much, &
all send love.
E."
Yeldall Manor
Yeldall Manor was built as a private house in late-Victorian times. In 1938 it became the Convent of the Good Shepherd, where the nuns cared for elderly ladies. When the nuns themselves grew older and fewer in number, the house was rented in 1973 to a different Anglican community, the charismatic ‘Community of Celebration’ and their worship team known as ‘the Fisherfolk’.
Yeldall Manor residential rehabilitation centre was founded after a chance encounter on a tube train led to an American couple, Bill and Joanie Yoder, inviting young addicts into their home. One of them, a London drug addict named Danny pleaded with them:
“Please won’t you buy a house in the
country so you can help more people
like us?”
And in 1977, the Yoders purchased Yeldall Manor, set in 38 acres of Berkshire countryside near Reading. Since then the programme and teaching has evolved, and the work has grown from a handful of residents and staff to one of the most renowned rehabilitation centres in the country.
For over 40 years, the centre has been helping men to overcome serious drug or alcohol addictions and return to society to live new lives, drug, alcohol and crime free.
An Execution in Turkey
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 14th. September 1961, the new military government of Turkey sentenced 15 members of the previous government to death, including former Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and former President Celâl Bayar.
Menderes was hanged 3 days later, while Bayar's sentence was commuted.
2641 Vésale
Also on that day, the asteroid 2642 Vésale was discovered by Sylvain Julien Victor Arend.
'Johnny Remember Me'
Also on the 14th. September 1961, the Number One chart hit record in the UK was 'Johnny Remember Me' by John Leyton.
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.