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Mi Ultimo Adios – Dr Jose Rizal FotografĂa de la ejecuciĂłn de JosĂ© Rizal [My Final Farewell – photo of execution of Dr. Jose Rizal] (1896 A.D.)
Image by Rudy E. Escoto
(really final poem of Dr Rizal in Spanish language, year 18...
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Crazy-ass mechanical entertainment device... The French Execution! "The Bell will toll, the curtain rises...you will see the culprit pay the penalty!"
Sadly I didn't have a quarter.
"So did we," said the Law Enforcer. "But we found this as we were leaving."
The Law Enforcer held up the hologram device.
Gallows and gibbest cast long shadows in the collective memory of Londoners. Executions regularly featured in popular culture including plays, books, games and Punch and Judy shows. Part of London's street entertainment enjoyed by generations of children and adults, the Punch and Judy story traditionally involved the executioner arriving to punish Punch for domestic violence only to himself be tricked into sticking his head in the noose. In the era of public hangings such dark humour had particular relevance to the audience.
In 1849 Charles Dickens wrote about the impact of this form of street entertainment on Londoners:
'In my opinion the street Punch is one of those extravagant reliefs from the realities of life which would lose its hold upon the people if it were made moral and instructive. I regard it as quite harmless in its influence, and as an outrageous joke which no one in existence would think of regarding as an incentive to any kind of action or as a model for any kind of conduct. It is possible, I think, that one secret source of pleasure very generally derived from this performance...is the satisfaction the spectator feels in the circumstance that likenesses of men and women can be so knocked about, without any pain or suffering.*
From the exhibition
Executions
(October 2022 – April 2023)
Exploring how public executions shaped Londoners’ lives and the city’s landscape in a major exhibition.
Public executions were a major part of Londoners’ lives for centuries.
From Smithfield to Southwark, from Banqueting House to Newgate Prison, executions became embedded in London’s landscape from the 12th century right through to the 19th. Even today, hints of this uncomfortable past can still be seen across the capital.
The Museum of London Docklands brought the rarely told and often tragic human stories behind these events to a new exhibition. Executions showcased a range of fascinating objects, paintings and projections, including the vest said to have been worn by King Charles I when he was executed, a recreation of the Tyburn gallows with an immersive projection, last letters of the condemned, and much more. Many of the items on display had rarely been seen in public.
[*Museum of London Docklands]
Taken in the Museum of London Docklands
They need to start using it more.... I am tired of killers getting put in jail and sucking tax dollars for food and what not. Why should they get to live when their victim can't anymore?
Abe Bonowitz talks with Bigler "Bud" Jobe Stouffer II on a phone and into a loud speaker so the group can hear what he has to say and ask questions. Protesters from Death Penalty Action, the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and other allies gathered at 5pm for a visibility action and protest in the park across the street from the Governor's Mansion at 820 NE 23rd Street in Oklahoma City, December 8, 2021.