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Outside the restrooms at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is a little collection of coin-operated amusements, some familiar from San Francisco's Musee Mecanique. This one was new to us. The condemned man's head lights up orange when he's electrocuted.
The Plaats (Place) was the original starting point of The Hague next to the brook that fils the dune lake that is now the Hofvijver. Later the castle and court were build on the other side. Only the porch (here on the left) remains today, the last original houses were torn down in the nineteenth century. The Plaats was also used for public executions. It was then known as The green mess (Het groene zooitje). The porch was used as a prison (and torture) center.
The leaders of the 1916 uprising were executed here, including one who was too sick to stand and was tied to a chair and shot. This brutality had the effect of turning the previously-indifferent populace against the British.
I went a little overboard on carving away the teeth but, considering that I've never used this technique, I'm fairly pleased with the result.
This site, just behind Minami Senju station marks the location of the Kotsukappara execution grounds, which was in use for over 200 years until the mid-Meiji period. A 3-meter stone jizo had stood here as a memorial. Following the March 11, 2011 earthquake, however, the statue was judged to be in danger of collapsing, and was dismantled. The pedestal, head and arm are still here.
The grounds were in use from 1651 until the final execution here in the 1870s, during which time an estimated 200,000 were killed. The jizo was erected in 1741. The March 11 Tohoku earthquake in 2011 caused the left arm to separate from the body and the upper body to slide dangerously to the side (it had survived a much stronger shake from the Tokai earthquake in 1923), so the rest of the statue was taken apart on March 17th.
I arrived here at the end of the "Old" Shinagawa Tokaido that lead me back to Rte 15. The Suzugamori Execution Grounds.
This place was originally right on Tokyo Bay when it became a place of death in Keian 4 (1651). Due to land reclamation (also known as paving the Earth) it's now safely quite a distance from the Bay.
This location was used in combination with Kozukappara and Itabashi Execution Grounds by the Tokugawa Shogunate during the Edo Period. It continued until Meiji 4 (1871).
So, back to being on Tokyo Bay. It was very important that this place be located near the water, because the preferred method of death was by drowning. Yes. Drowning. Those brought here were suspended head down so they might wait patiently for High Tide and not die too quickly. Estimates for the number of people killed here rise into the tens of thousands. Somber little place. I know that many were probably guilty, but I'm also sure that there were some innocent ones that suffered the same fate as the guilty over 220 years of slow death. Some historians here in Japan have estimated that no less than 40% of those that lost their lives here were found guilty of FALSE charges.
Suzugamori was quite famous in its time. Ando Hiroshige created a woodblock print of it. Many Kabuki plays were written about it and one of them, called Gozonji Suzugamori is STILL being performed!
Although also just a remnant, a Temple once stood nearby called Daikyo-ji, which was built to calm the souls of the executed (read: keep the angry souls of the innocent from coming back to wreak havoc on the bastards that sent them here).
It is listed as Number 55 of the "One Hundred Scenic Spots in Shinagawa."
My friend Cristen put a caption on this photo I took at my high school's Holiday Fair...thingy, from 2001. It's when elementary school kids come and we give them SUPER FUN TIMES!!! Or attempt to.
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Each year, on the last Sunday of January the Kings Army hold a parade to commemorate the execution of Charles I. The march is along the Mall in London and the parade is on Horseguards Parade. These photos show the participants in 2012.
Activists around the world including Amnesty International gathered on Wednesday May 6th 2009 for a worldwide day of action protesting against the illegal execution of Delara Darabi in Iran on Friday. May 1st.
A two-month stay of execution had been issued by the Head of the Judiciary only two weeks before Delara's sudden and secretive execution.
Take action against Delara's and all child executions here:
Since when did tweeting about an execution become socially acceptable. Yes, the now deceased was a horrid murder, but when is it okay to publicize the act in such a manner. But by the way, thanks for the update?
The Town of Bedlam: Scene 68
[Yanlin] Thank you for coming. The Queen is holding court. Wait in the back and she'll be with you shortly.
[Chunshan] Yesterday we spoke with your accuser. He told this court that you ran out of his store carrying a 50 pound bag of rice without paying for it. He brought two witnesses who both claimed they saw you do it. He showed us video footage of your crime. How do you plead?
[Hung] I beg the Queen for mercy.
[Queen Ming] Mercy you ask for? Have I not already done so twice before? The first time I gave you a warning by taking one of your hands. Last time I took your other hand for stealing also. I have shown you mercy but you continuously throw it right back at me. My goodness has it's limits, and we must set an example for everyone to follow.
[Fang] *slice* I love how this sword slices through flesh like butter.
[Heng] My Queen, Tex has arrived.
[Tex] That feller was as yellow as mustard but without the bite.
[Queen Ming] Just the person I wanted to see. Are you hungry? Let's go next door and enjoy our Chinese New Year's feast. I prefer to talk business while eating.
The Rieme-Oostakker Place of Execution is the place in the Ghent district of Oostakker where 66 resistance fighters were executed by the Naxi occupation force between February 8, 1943 and August 24, 1944.
This memory is also kept alive the 20 resistance fighters who were killed on the execution site at Rieme . That site was destroyed in 1998 during the construction of the Kluizendok of Ghent Port.
The executions were carried out in secret and the victims were buried anonymously. Some of the resistance fighters killed in Rieme was found in a mass grave in Hechtel.
Moreover, there were German soldiers and Belgian criminals also shot. Because of these circumstances, it is still unclear how many people were killed. After the Liberation the mass grave was uncovered in Oostakker. The victims were identified and buried in their hometowns.
The crosses on the ground thus have a symbolic meaning. Nevertheless, the execution place is a cemetery since in 1952 the remains of 15 decapitated West Flemish political prisoners were moved here from their graves in Munich.
On the grounds is a railway carriage which carried hundreds of Belgians to concentration camps in Germany and Poland. In 1966 the execution place gained the status of a protected landscape.
Anyone seen this alert before? My guess is that it's the result of some new monthly Windows update...