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A public execution is a form of capital punishment which "members of the general public may voluntarily attend." [1] This definition excludes the presence of only a small number of witnesses called upon to assure executive accountability. [2]
Nguyễn Ngọc Loan summarily executes Viet Cong Captain Nguyễn Văn Lém in Saigon during the Tet Offensive in 1968.. In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial.
The executioner was usually presented with a warrant authorising or ordering him to execute the sentence. The warrant protects the executioner from the charge of murder . Common terms for executioners derived from forms of capital punishment—though they often also performed other physical punishments—include hangman ( hanging ) and headsman ...
One of the youngest children ever to be executed was the infant son of Perotine Massey on or around 18 July 1556. His mother was one of the Guernsey Martyrs who was executed for heresy, and his father had previously fled the island. At less than one day old, he was ordered to be burned by Bailiff Hellier Gosselin, with the advice of priests ...
A term for contract killings; Extrajudicial killing, the killing of a person by governmental authorities without the sanction of any judicial proceeding or legal process ...
Nazis executed under British jurisdiction, including Josef Kramer, Fritz Klein, Irma Grese and Elisabeth Volkenrath, were hanged by Albert Pierrepoint using the variable-drop method devised by Marwood. The record speed for a British long-drop hanging was seven seconds from the executioner entering the cell to the drop.
The sentence shall be executed at any hour on the day set for the execution, not less than 30 nor more than 100 days from the date of sentencing. [3] Arizona: Arizona Supreme Court: Arkansas: Governor: California: Trial Court Judge The execution date shall not be less than 60 days nor more than 90 days from the time of making the order [4] Colorado
Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was executed on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 [b] outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists and the parliamentarians in England during the English Civil War, leading to the capture and trial of