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from 20th Century Genocide fanzine, issue #1 (1983)
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Chapter 1, "The Execution" from, "A Night of Violence: The Houston Riot of 1917" by Robert V. Haynes, Copyright 1976. Book about the Camp Logan Riot/Mutiny of 1917 in Houston, Texas.
Each of the four furnaces could cremate two or three corpses at once. The ovens were connected to the chimney by an underground canal.
Execution site: Most hangings were carried out here. The victims were hanged directly in front of the burning ovens.
The bolshevik party introduced the cheka, a secret police force, that could now execute someone without trial. Lenin used this to execute anyone that opposed him or presented a threat to the bolshevik party. In the Russian civil war it is believed that the cheka executed more than 200,000 people that presented a "threat" to Lenin or the party.
Christopher Newton's execution was previously scheduled for February 27th, but newly elected Governor Strickland postponed the execution, along with those of two other inmates, so he could review their cases to consider clemency. The first of the three, James Filiaggi, was executed in April.
Outside the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Death Penalty abolitionists erect signs mourning the impending death of Newton and the death of his victim, Jason Brewer and calling for prayers for the souls of both, as well as their families.
One story relates how, while Nicholas was visiting a remote part of his diocese, several citizens from Myra arrived with the news that, in his absence, the ruler of the city, Eustathius, had condemned three innocent men to death. Nicholas set out immediately for home. Reaching the outskirts of the city, he asked those he met on the road if they knew what had happened to the prisoners. Informed that their execution was to be carried out that morning, he hurried to the executioner's field, where he found a large crowd of people and the three men kneeling with their arms bound behind them, awaiting the blow of the sword. Nicholas passed through the crowd, took the sword from the executioner's hands and threw it to the ground, ordering that the condemned men be freed from their bonds. Later the ruler sought the saint’s forgiveness. Only after a period of public repentance did Nicholas absolve him.
Ilya Repin's painting of the same scene: www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/995851770/
The execution wall between blocks 10 & 11 at Auschwitz - block 11 held cells (the lower windows) where up to a 100 people were crammed in to rooms & not given anything to eat or drink. It also contained tiny 4 people standing cells where people were held. I found the lower block rooms in block 11 to be really sad, dark, depressive & the people held there would have heard the executions on the other side of the wall ....
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special thanks to miss A.R and K for taking me along!
Triste destin que celui des héros de notre jeunesse... Les balancements grotesques de leurs corps sans vie n'ayant pour origine que les assauts du vent de notre cruauté. Regardez leurs yeux exorbités mesdames et messieurs, n'avez vous donc pas une once de pitié ?
If you look carefully, you can see an ominous turn in the road. You can see the photographer's shadow, like a gunman placing the gun on the temple of his victim. You can see Sandra and another Sandra and Sandra's shadow. You can even see the photographer's sleeve. And you can see Manuel's shadow where his eye actually is. All this on a remote road in the Catalan countryside.
Some of the more famous Tower prisoners were executed within the Inner Ward of the Tower. There were fewer spectators here, on Tower Green, than for those executions held just north of the Tower on Tower Hill, but there could still be a couple hundred people viewing the "private" execution. Lower-class prisoners who were executed at Tower Hill were usually hanged; beheading was reserved for higher-class or high-profile prisoners. The seven on this sign were all beheaded for treason.
The last person executed at the Tower was Josef Jakobs, a German spy, in 1941 by firing squad.