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Located at the corner of George IV Bridge and the Lawnmarket marks the spot of Edinburgh's last public execution. George Bryce, the Ratho murder was hung here on 21st June 1864. Three brass plaques on the pavement mark the site of the gallows.
I waited with my boys on the extreme western side of the rather large crowd waiting for CP's Holiday Train to arrive in Hartland, WI. I've always been an outsider anyway....
Having done this before, I knew where the locomotive would be stopping and was able to get a shot or two before the mass of people descended on the locomotive for poses with the power.
Kilmainham Gaol was built in 1796 as a replacement for an older prison. It has a sorrowful past with deplorable conditions. It is the place of imprisonment and subsequent execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. This yard is where these executions were carried out.
This, of course, is a reenactment of the most iconic Vietnam War photo:
www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietnam/ThreeImages/images/E...
Believe it or not, even Lego has one:
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And more here:
frgdr.com/blog/2008/06/29/renditions-saigon-execution-edd...
An "academical execution". I am no expert in studentic corporations but I think this shot was taken at the instance of a big studentical meeting around 1900.
Francisco José de Goya, Fuendetodos/Aragón 1746 - Bordeaux 1828
Die Erschießung der Aufständischen - The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid aka The Executions (1814)
Museo del Prado, Madrid
A depiction of the execution of patriots from Madrid by a firing squad from Napoleon´s army in reprisal for their uprising against the French occupation on the second of May, 1808. The French soldiers are at the right of the composition, with their backs to the viewer. They aim their rifles at the Madrilenes who are to die. The scene´s drama and tension are emphasized by the use of light, which strongly illuminates the heroes, making it possible to distinguish their characters and attitudes in a detailed psychological character study. Along with its companion, The 2nd of May 1808 in Madrid: the charge of the Mamelukes, this work was made at the initiative of the Reagent, Luis de Bourbon in 1814.
Both works may have been used to decorate a triumphal arch during the return of Fernando VII to Madrid, or to commemorate the celebrations of the second of May. The lower left side still shows the marks of damage suffered when this canvas was transferred to Valencia in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.
Source: Museo del Prado
One method the Nazis used to discourage rebellion was the shooting of hostages, especially women and children, in retaliation for acts of resistance. Five women, about to fall victims to a firing squad, were among 100 Slovenians shot in the village of Celje in 1942. The Nazis believed that the shooting of women and children would be especially effective in discouraging resistance activity. Yet, even such atrocities did not completely halt the actions of the Yugoslavian partisans.
Photo: Lydia Chagoll / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
English Civil War Society
By kind permission of the Royal Parks Department, the King’s Army Annual March and Parade will again follow the route taken by Charles I from St James Palace on the Mall to the place of his untimely death at the Banqueting House in Whitehall, London. This event is an established part of the London calendar and has followed a similar format now for forty years. The parade assembles from 11am outside St James Palace on The Mall and marches to form up on Horse Guards Parade, a considerable privilege for an organisation such as ourselves, from where a wreath is carried across Whitehall and placed at the execution site. A short service follows and awards and commissions are conferred on deserving members of the King’s Army.
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These proud eighteenth century Thames Wharf building mark the site of the place where pirates were executed in London
Capital punishment was reserved for acts of mutiny that resulted in death and for murders on the High Seas. Those sentenced to death were usually brought to Execution Dock from Marshalsea Prison (although some were also transported from the Newgate). The condemned were paraded across London Bridge past the Tower of London. The procession was led by the High Court Marshal on horseback (or his deputy). He carried a silver oar that represented the authority of the Admiralty. Prisoners were transported in a cart to Wapping; with them was a chaplain who encouraged them to confess their sins. Just like the execution procession to Tyburn, condemned prisoners were allowed to drink a quart of ale at a public house on the way to the gallows. An execution at the dock usually meant that crowds lined the river's banks or chartered boats moored in the Thames to get a better view of the hangings. Executions were conducted by the hangmen who worked at either Tyburn and Newgate Prison.
Customarily, those executed corpses were left hanging on the nooses until at least three tides had washed over their heads. This practice stopped at the end of the 18th century.
An account from The Gentleman's Magazine, dated February 4, 1796, gives a vivid portrayal of a typical execution at London's Execution Dock.
"This morning, a little after ten o'clock, Colley, Cole, and Blanche, the three sailors convicted of the murder of Captain Little, were brought out of Newgate, and conveyed in solemn procession to Execution Dock, there to receive the punishment awarded by law. On the cart on which they rode was an elevated stage; on this were seated Colley, the principal instigator in the murder, in the middle, and his two wretched instruments, the Spaniard Blanche, and the Mulatto Cole, on each side of him; and behind, on another seat, two executioners. Colley seemed in a state resembling that of a man stupidly intoxicated, and scarcely awake, and the two discovered little sensibility on this occasion, nor to the last moment of their existence, did they, as we hear, make any confession. They were turned off about a quarter before twelve in the midst of an immense crowd of spectators. On the way to the place of execution, they were preceded by the Marshall of the Admiralty in his carriage, the Deputy Marshall, bearing the silver oar, and the two City Marshals on horseback, Sheriff's officers, etc. The whole cavalcade was conducted with great solemnity."
The infamous Captain Kidd, who had been convicted of piracy and murder, was taken from Newgate Prison and executed at the dock in 1701. During his execution, the rope broke and Kidd was hanged on the second attempt.
Lancaster Castle east wing and courthouse, amazingly a tour here gets you to see the execution chamber, plus the chair that was used to execute a condemned prisoner who had no legs, gory but then it was 250 years ago.
Tudor Catholic martyrs depicted in Ushaw College (info) for all visitors to admire.
The pair in the centre, being upper-class, were beheaded (hence the axe). The rest were more ordinary and so hanged. Except for the woman.
And has she brought along doughnuts for everyone? Alas no, in fact she's showing some of the stones piled on her to crush her.
Painted in 1937 by Geoffrey Webb as a tribute to Mgr Brown, Ushaw's 13th president.
Possibly by Dutch artist / eye witness Weesop. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. This event has always fascinated me since a young boy, came across this;
“King Charles I was his own worst enemy. Self-righteous, arrogant, and unscrupulous; he had a penchant for making bad decisions. His troubles began the moment he ascended the throne in 1625 upon the death of his father James I. Charles simultaneously alienated both his subjects and his Parliament, prompting a series of events that ultimately lead to civil war, his own death and the abolition of the English monarchy.
Charles I and family Charles' problems revolved around religion and a lack of money. His marriage to the Roman-Catholic French princess Henrietta Maria in 1625 did not please his Protestant subjects and led to suspicions of his motives. In 1637 he totally misgauged the sentiments of his Scottish subjects when he attempted to impose an Anglican form of worship on the predominantly Presbyterian population. Riots escalated to general unrest; forcing Charles to recall Parliament in 1640 in order to acquire the funds necessary to quell the Scottish uprising. This so-called "Short Parliament" refused Charles' financial demands and disbanded after only one month.
The continuing civil unrest in the north forced Charles to again convene Parliament in December 1640. The following year the Irish revolted against English rule while the determination of King and Parliament to assert their authority over the other led to open conflict between the two in 1642.
The tide of the Civil War ebbed and flowed for the next six years, culminating in the defeat at the Battle of Preston of Charles' army in August 1648 by Parliamentary forces under the command of Oliver Cromwell. The King was charged with high treason against the realm of England. At his trial, Charles refuted the legitimacy of the court and refused to enter a plea. Not withstanding the absence of a plea, the court rendered a verdict of guilty and a sentence of death declaring:
"That the king, for the crimes contained in the charge, should be carried back to the place from whence he came, and thence to the place of execution, where his head should be severed from his body."
Three days later, the king was led to the scaffold erected at Whitehall, London.
" I go to where no disturbance can be"
January 30, 1649 was a bitterly cold day. Charles went to his execution wearing two heavy shirts so that he might not shiver in the cold and appear to be afraid. The following account of the event comes from an anonymous observer and begins as the doomed King addresses the crowd from the scaffold:
"[As for the people,] truly I desire their liberty and freedom as much as anybody whomsoever; but I must tell you that their liberty and freedom consist in having of government, those laws by which their life and their goods may be most their own. It is not for having share in government, sirs; that is nothing pertaining to them; a subject and a sovereign are clear different things. And therefore until they do that, I mean that you do put the people in that liberty, as I say, certainly they will never enjoy themselves. Sirs, it was for this that now I am come here. If I would have given way to an arbitrary way, for to have all laws changed according to the power of the sword, I needed not to have come here; and therefore I tell you (and I pray God it be not laid to your charge) that I am the martyr of the people. . .
And to the executioner he said, 'I shall say but very short prayers, and when I thrust out my hands - '
Then he called to the bishop for his cap, and having put it on, asked the executioner, 'Does my hair trouble you?' who desired him to put it all under his cap; which, as he was doing by the help of the bishop and the executioner, he turned to the bishop, and said, 'I have a good cause, and a gracious God on my side.'
The bishop said, 'There is but one stage more, which, though turbulent and troublesome, yet is a very short one. You may consider it will soon carry you a very great way; it will carry you from earth to heaven; and there you shall find to your great joy the prize you hasten to, a crown of glory.'
The king adjoins, 'I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world.'
The bishop: 'You are exchanged from a temporal to an eternal crown, - a good exchange.'
The execution of Charles I Then the king asked the executioner, 'Is my hair well?' And taking off his cloak and George [the jeweled pendant of the Order of the Garter, bearing the figure of St. George], he delivered his George to the bishop. . .
Then putting off his doublet and being in his waistcoat, he put on his cloak again, and looking upon the block, said to the executioner, 'You must set it fast.'
The executioner: 'It is fast, sir.'
King: 'It might have been a little higher.'
Executioner: 'It can be no higher, sir.'
King: 'When I put out my hands this way, then - '
Then having said a few words to himself, as he stood, with hands and eyes lift up, immediately stooping down he laid his neck upon the block; and the executioner, again putting his hair under his cap, his Majesty, thinking he had been going to strike, bade him, 'Stay for the sign.'
Executioner: 'Yes, I will, and it please your Majesty.'
After a very short pause, his Majesty stretching forth his hands, the, executioner at one blow severed his head from his body; which, being held up and showed to the people, was with his body put into a coffin covered with black velvet and carried into his lodging.
His blood was taken up by divers persons for different ends: by some as trophies of their villainy; by others as relics of a martyr; and in some hath had the same effect, by the blessing of God, which was often found in his sacred touch when living."
Protest against Trump, London, June 2019
According to the International Bar Association's Human Right Institute, as reported in the Law Society Gazette in July 2019, the Saudi authorities have carried out at least 134 executions so far in 2019. 55 were of non-violent drug offenders. Another 37 were political activists killed in a mass execution on 23 April 2019 following lengthy periods of detention, torture, and 'grossly unfair' trials. The report notes that, among numerous ways in which the Saudi penal code contravenes international law, at least six of the 37 executed in April were under 18 at the time of their alleged offences.
Turkish snapshot which shows German sailors and Austrian soldiers among the observers of the executions.
Washroom where women stripped before execution. Then they were lead in twos and shot at the "death wall".
Van Nelle Factory, Rotterdam The Netherlands – Architects: Brinkman and Van der Vlugt – masterplan 1914 – 1923; design 1923 – 1925; execution 1925 - 1931
The Van Nelle Factory is one of the highlights of the Modern Movement in the Netherlands. The impressive glass building is not only an example of functionalism and rational production, but also improved working conditions for workers in the twentieth century. The restored building is now one of the most important monuments of Rotterdam
The Firm Van Nelle was selling coffee, tea, tobacco and snuff in Rotterdam since 1782. The entirely new complex consists of the actual factory building, an office building, a warehouse, expedition and storage depots along the canal, a boiler house and several workshops. A cafeteria and sports fields were also to be found in the area. The factory building consists of three elongated in height sloping parts separated by stairwells. Tobacco has eight, coffee five and tea factory three floors. The staircases house the washing and changing facilities, toilets and lifts, separated for men and women. This allowed for continues factory floors and easily adjustable layouts. By using a concrete frame the non-load bearing facades could be made almost entirely of glass with only thin steel frames. Light and air could penetrate deep into the building. The expedition and storage strip along the water is connected to the main building by overhead conveyor bridges. Another sky bridge connects the plant to the office at the entrance of the complex. The office consists of a strip with two layers of offices and a large open space with glass walls and glass meeting rooms. The office follows the curve in the road. During construction, a tea room on the roof of the tobacco factory was added.
In 1942, low-rise warehouses designed by Brinkman and Van den Broek were realized. In 1974 at the back of the building, a new distribution centre was built. In 1951 other products such as pudding and chewing gum made their entrance. After a takeover by the American Standard Brands in 1989, Van Nelle competitor Sara Lee / Douwe Egberts, sold the complex in 1995, so it could finally get the status of national monument. Using the name Van Nelle Design Factory, the complex started a new life. The factory complex was restored by Wessel de Jonge and Claessens Erdmann. The transparency of the factory floor was maintained as much as possible by the new climate walls on the inside. The new inner facades are made of aluminium and therefore clearly identifiable as new elements. On the floors office spaces of various sizes have been realized for the creative sector. The ground floor is used for exhibitions and conferences. The adjacent buildings have been restored and are used by a number of architectural firms.
Program Sunday, 6 October 2019
10.30 welcome to Kazerne Dossin, Museum and Research Center on Holocaust and Human Rights
Veerle Vanden Daelen and tour with Geert Driesen and Ilse Van Berendoncks (awg architects)
11.30 along execution wall and Tinel garden with historical explanation
reflect on projects on the Tinel site by Dirk Somers (Bovenbouw)
“The targeting of civilians, mass executions, and countless reports of rape by Russian forces have gone largely unchecked"
We must take action to put a stop to these atrocities.
Words matter, but so do our actions,” Kinzinger is quoted as saying in the statement. “I’m introducing this AUMF as a clear redline so the administration can take appropriate action should Russia use chemical, biological, and/or nuclear weapons.
We must stand up for humanity and we must stand with our allies.”
Zelenskyy reiterated Ukraine’s resolve to fight.
“Honestly, I do not know — the lives of people destroyed, burned or stolen property will not do anything to Russia, but will increase the toxicity of the Russian state and the number of those in the world who will work to isolate Russia,” Zelenskyy said. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine are responding to the aggressors with all their blows and will continue to respond until the occupiers leave our land.” — Catherine Clifford
My comment:
I agree with Kinzinger: Putin is getting away with murder!
It feels like Putin, the Kremlim & the Oligarchs are being dealt with very, very leniently getting off lightly with it all
It looks like the West/USA are starting to show their teeth and preparing to tell Putin that he's overstepped the mark by miles and so reluctantly the free world is getting ready to correct the situation
In order to be able to move our water tank to its final resting place we had to lay down one stretch of concrete floor.
September 2016
Édouard Manet, Paris 1832 - 1883
L'éxecution de l'Empereur Maximilien - Die Erschießung Kaiser Maximilians von Mexiko - The execution of Emperor Maximilian (1868 - 69)
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Manets großformatiges Bild ist das zentrale Meisterwerk der Kunsthalle und bildet mit seinem frühen Ankauf 1910 den eigentlichen Beginn der Gemäldesammlung.
Mit der Erschießung des von Frankreich eingesetzten Kaisers Maximilian I. von Mexiko, an deren Darstellung Manet von 1868 bis 1869 arbeitet, reagiert er auf einen gewaltsamen Konflikt zwischen dem französischen Kaiserreich und mexikanischen Republikanern.
Als kompakte, auch farblich abgesetzte Gruppe stellt er das Erschießungskommando in jenem Augenblick dar, in dem die Soldaten feuern, die Kugeln den Kaiser aber noch nicht getroffen haben. In mehreren Vorarbeiten nähert sich Manet seinem Thema, informiert sich über das Geschehen aber auch anhand zeitgenössischer Fotografien, die von der politischen Zensur in Frankreich verboten wurden. Der eingefrorene Sekundenbruchteil der Fotografie steht dabei im Zentrum seines Gemäldes. In ihm ist die ganze menschliche und geschichtliche Dramatik der Szene für alle Zeiten gespeichert.
Quelle: Kunsthalle Mannheim
Siehe auch: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Erschießung_Kaiser_Maximilians...
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These photos of the aftermath of Mussolini's execution at the end of WWII were in the final pages of my Uncle Louis' WWII photo album. I know he was in North Africa and Italy, not sure where he was at the end of the war. These are actual photographs he had, not just something he ripped out of a magazine. I read somewhere that large numbers of these photos were sold to American GI's.
They held him down. Then, as pictured, one came up behind him and sheared his head off. They carried the head around the brick wall they had claimed as their own. They seemed quite pleased.
Print depicting the execution of Anne Boleyn, consort to Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I. Print made by Jan Luyken, c.1664-1712.
Inscription: ‘ANNA BULLEYN Gemalinne van HENDRIK DE VIII/Koning van Engeland, binnen London onthalst’.
The print is part of a series of plates depicting the deaths of various notable persons. They are held at the British Museum.
Height: 190mm (trimmed)
Width: 146mm
The changing room for prisoners where they had to undress before their execution at the yard of Block 11 in Auschwitz camp.
Kilmainham Gaol was built in 1796 as a replacement for an older prison. It has a sorrowful past with deplorable conditions. It is the place of imprisonment and subsequent execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. This yard is where these executions were carried out.
by Scott Bowering.
[Toronto], privately published, [late 198os?]. probably not more than about 2o copies orso.
12 x 18, silkscreen broadsheet in 3 colours printed from photostencils.
what can possibly only be called visual prose, the reproduction of holograph text phasing deliberately in & out of readability, the title printed under the text & wrapping around onto the rear. an unpleasant story but appropriately deployed.
some creasing & small tears along slightly sunned bottom edge, minor top corner creases & a scar resembling that made by removing a piece of tape from the construction paper. it's beautiful anyway...
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The Postcard
A postcard published by Rotary Photo of London E.C. The photography was by Bassano.
The card was posted in Greenock on Saturday the 12th. March 1904 to:
Miss Harvey,
Trees Farm,
Riccarton,
Kilmarnock.
The brief message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Will write soon. I am
spending the afternoon
in Greenock.
J.D."
Miss Edna May
Edna May Pettie (September 2nd. 1878 – January 1st. 1948), known on stage as Edna May, was an American actress and singer.
A popular postcard beauty, May was famous for her leading roles in Edwardian musical comedies.
-- Edna May - The Early Years
May was born in Syracuse, New York, to Edgar and Cora Petty. The family later changed the surname to 'Pettie'. Her siblings were Adelbert, Jennie and Marguerite.
At the age of 5, she played Little Willie Allen in a production of 'Dora'. By the age of 7, she had joined a children's opera company, and performed Gilbert and Sullivan productions in Syracuse. She studied music at the New York Conservatoire as a teenager.
May made her professional debut in 1895 in 'Si Stebbings' in Syracuse. She then moved to New York to take the small role of Clairette in Oscar Hammerstein's Broadway show, 'Santa Maria'.
That year, she married Fred Titus, who held a world record for cycling. They had no children, and divorced in 1904.
In 1897, May played Violet Grey in 'The Belle of New York' with only moderate success. The following year, the production played in London, becoming a hit and running for 697 performances, making May a star.
-- Edna May - The Later Years
After that, among others, she played:
- Gabrielle Dalmonte in 'An American Beauty in London' (1900)
- Olga in 'The Girl from Up There' (1901) in New York and then London
- Edna Branscombe in 'Three Little Maids' (1902)
- Lillian Leigh in 'The School Girl' (1903–1904) in London and New York
- Say-So-San in 'The Darling of the Guards' (1904) in London
- Alesia in 'La Poupée' (1904) in London
- Angela in 'The Catch of the Season' (1905) in New York.
- 'The Belle of Mayfair' (1906)
- Nelly Neil in 'Nelly Neil' (1907) in London.
-- Edna May's Personal Life
May was known for her beauty, and received tremendous attention from male admirers. She was involved in a passionate relationship with Prince Raj Narayan Bahadur, but could not marry him because of her parents' disapproval.
In 1907, she married millionaire Oscar Lewisohn and retired from the stage. The couple settled in England. They had no children, and Lewisohn died in 1917.
May lived at Winkfield in Berkshire during her retirement, but made brief returns to the stage in 1911 benefit performances of 'The Belle of New York' at the Savoy Theatre in London, and 1915's 'The Masque of Peace and War' in London.
-- Films of Edna May
Also in 1911, she appeared in the film 'Forgotten; or An Answered Prayer'. She starred in a 1916 film called 'Salvation Joan', donating the proceeds to charity.
-- The Death of Edna May
Edna died in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the age of 69.
George Gee and his Execution
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 12th. March 1904 a murder took place in Canada, committed by George William Gee.
George, who was born on the 16th. June 1881, was executed on the 22nd. July 1904, making him the first person to be hanged in the town of Woodstock, New Brunswick.
He was tried for the murder of Millie Gee, his cousin and ex-lover. The trial took place in the Old Carleton County Court House, and he was hanged in the Woodstock Gaol.
George and Millie had been seeing each other for three or four years, when Millie lost interest and asked him not to see her any more. Shortly thereafter, she was hired to look after the house and children of Bennie Gee because his wife had left him. She stayed in the house next door with Bennie's sister Catherine and her husband Daniel Crane.
On the 12th. March 1904, George arrived at Bennie's residence with a borrowed Lee–Enfield rifle. He had been drinking steadily for most of the afternoon, but was friendly enough when he arrived, and left the rifle at the door. He stayed late, playing cards with Bennie, and continuing to drink until three in the morning, when George announced that he should leave and was helped to the door by Millie.
As he was going out he uttered his later famous words:
"I suppose you don't know
that this is the night you're
going to die."
He then turned around, picked up the rifle and fired. The bullet ricocheted off the frame of the door and entered Millie's chest, knocking her to the floor.
Hearing the shot, Bennie ran to the door. George fired twice in his direction but missed. He then fled, and walked the long distance to a phone to call Deputy Sheriff Foster to turn himself in.
Three doctors were called to attend Millie, but they could not save her life. She died the following Wednesday, a short time after giving her deposition to Deputy Sheriff Foster.
After a preliminary hearing, the trial was set for the 26th. April 1904 with Judge Tucker presiding.
Gee pleaded not guilty, and the calling of witnesses began. In all, 23 were called, most of them close friends and relatives. In his closing arguments the defence lawyer pleaded with the jury that Gee was insane, drunk, and too poor to mount a proper defence. He claimed a charge of manslaughter would be more appropriate. His full argument lasted a full hour and left Gee in tears.
The Crown argued that the crime was premeditated, and that Gee couldn't have been insane, as he had obviously realized his crime when he turned himself in.
The jury deliberated for only 45 minutes before they returned a verdict of guilty. Judge Tucker sentenced Gee to hang in the grounds of the (then) new jail.
The hanging went forward as planned, although there was a delay for the rope to be shipped in from out of town, since no one from the town would sell it. The executioner, Radcliffe, was swift in the hanging, and the rope snapped Gee's neck. He was pronounced dead 13 minutes afterwards.