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Greece Panagopoulos, a successful Greek shipping magnate who owned multiple companies engaged in the trade, was kidnapped by a group of armed men in Athens in 2009. Orchestrated by crime boss Panagiotis Vlastos, the group demanded €30 million in ransom, and after a week, they released Panagopoulos after the sum was paid.
The Strappado, used as public punishment, detail of plate 10 of Les Grandes Misères de la guerre by Jacques Callot, 1633. The strappado, also known as corda, [1] is a form of torture in which the victim's hands are tied behind their back and the victim is suspended by a rope attached to the wrists, typically resulting in dislocated shoulders.
Executed people of Ancient Greece. Pages in category "Executed ancient Greek people" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. ...
The result of short-drop hanging (only used in Iran in modern times). By garrote. Used in Spain and former Spanish colonies (e.g., the Philippines). Back-breaking: A Mongolian method of execution that avoided the spilling of blood on the ground [3] (example: the Mongolian leader Jamukha was probably executed this way in 1206). [4] Blowing from ...
Caroline Crouch (12 July 2001 – 11 May 2021) was a Greek student of British and Filipino descent, who was murdered on the morning of 11 May 2021, in her home on Glyka Nera, a suburb of Athens, Greece. 37 days later, her husband, Babis Anagnostopoulos, confessed to the police under interrogation that he was the one who murdered her.
The image of the goddess Nike is engraved on the horse's right thigh, holding a wreath in raised hands—a brand for racehorses in Ancient Greece. The horse dwarfs its jockey, a boy only 84 centimetres (2.76 ft) tall and perhaps 10 years old, possibly from Africa based on his physiognomy and original black patinated surface colouring.
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People executed by hanging (4 C, 39 P) S. Suicides by hanging (63 C, 27 P) Pages in category "Deaths by hanging" ... This page was last edited on 22 May 2024, at 17: ...