Public execution Black & White Stock Photos
RMBX51D3–Prague 5000 strong crowd of Czechs view the public execution of Karl Hermann Frank. Frank was executed on May 5th 1946 by
RM2B2B73X–The public execution of political opponents of the new Young Turks serves as a deterrent example.
RMTA2D3Y–Public execution at the Augsburg Town Hall Square in 1790. On the right the three offenders accompanied by the priest
RMDB88A1–justice, penitentiary system, beheading, public execution of the butcher's apprentice Georg Treiber for murder with robbery, Munich, 9.9.1852, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMF389F9–The public execution of Louis XVI by guillotine on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution ('Revolution Square', formerly Place Louis XV, and renamed Place de la Concorde in 1795) in Paris, France
RM2B015JE–China: Shanghai - Public execution of a convict in the Chinese Walled City (Nanshi). Photo by William Saunders (1832-1892), c. 1865-1870. The former Nanshi district, literally 'southern city', was the historic heart of Shanghai. It included the old, walled city as well as the nearby docklands on both sides of the Huangpu River. Shanghai County was established at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. A city wall was built to repel the Wokou, and this Ming Dynasty wall defined the extent of urban Shanghai for the next few centuries.
![Public execution of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro in the US state of Kentucky. [automated translation] Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2GY4RKK/public-execution-of-rainey-bethea-in-owensboro-in-the-us-state-of-kentucky-automated-translation-2GY4RKK.jpg "Public execution of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro in the US state of Kentucky. [automated translation] Stock Photo")
RM2GY4RKK–Public execution of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro in the US state of Kentucky. [automated translation]
RM2B01PCE–Singapore: Public execution of Indian participants in the 'Singapore Mutiny' of 1915. The 1915 Singapore Mutiny, also known as the 1915 Sepoy Mutiny or Mutiny of the 5th Native Light Infantry, was a mutiny involving up to half of 850 sepoys (Indian soldiers) against the British in Singapore during the First World War, linked with the 1915 Ghadar Conspiracy. The mutiny, on 15 February 1915, lasted nearly seven days and resulted in the deaths of 47 British soldiers and local civilians, before it was finally quelled by British forces and Allied naval detachments.
RMPKG360–The Elms, former public execution site in Smithfield, City of London, England, where along with Tyburn, it was the main site for the public execution of heretics and dissidents like Scottish nobleman Sir William Wallace and Wat Tyler, was slain by Sir William Walworth, Lord Mayor of London on 15 June 1381. About fifty Protestants and religious reformers, known as the Marian martyrs, were executed at Smithfield during the reign of Mary I. Meat has been traded at Smithfield Market for more than 800 years, making it one of the oldest markets in London.
RM2F8GKM6–The execution of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593-1641), an English statesman and a major figure in the period leading up to the English Civil War. He served in Parliament and was a supporter of King Charles I. From 1632 to 1640 he was Lord Deputy of Ireland, where he established a strong authoritarian rule. Recalled to England, he became a leading advisor to the King, attempting to strengthen the royal position against Parliament. When Parliament condemned Wentworth to death, Charles reluctantly signed the death warrant and Wentworth was executed.
RMDDBPJ5–An auto-da-fé, the ritual of public penance, Inquisition punishment, execution by the civil authorities, 16th Century
RMT9659W–The breaking wheel, also known as the Catherine wheel or simply the wheel, was a torture device used for capital punishment from antiquity into early modern times for public execution by breaking the criminal's bones/bludgeoning him to death. As a form of execution, it was used from classical times into the 18th century; as a form of post mortem punishment of the criminal, the wheel was still in use in 19th century Germany.
RMG0P0GC–The Scottish Maiden, an early form of guillotine, or gibbet, used between the 16th and 18th centuries in Edinburgh, Scotland
RMP0EMD0–. English: Fleuron from book: A true and genuine account of Lady Kirk, who was tried at the assizes at Winchester, in Hampshire, and found guilty of poisoning her husband, two Sons, and a Daughter, and received Sentence of Death; With A particular Relation of her public Execution; her Body being taken to the adjoining Common, and there burnt before ten Thousand Spectators; and also how her Daughter, at the Place of Execution, own'd herself guilty of the Crime, and that she had swore falsly against her Mother, and accordingly threw herself into the Fire, and was also burnt. 240 A true and genui
RMBX588Y–Prague October 23rd 1946, public execution of German General Kurt Daluege at Pankrac prison. CTK Vintage Photo
RM2RYHA3R–Engraving of a monk fighting the faggots before two women bound by chains for public execution by burning, probably during the Spanish inquisition
RMCWA77K–Rainey Bethea moments after he is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky. The black man was convicted of raping and murdering a white
RMFGR64D–justice, penitentiary system, beheading, public execution, after woodcut, out of: Jean Milles de Souvigny, 'Praxis criminis persequendi', Paris, 1541, wood engraving, 19th century, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2BW1YNJ–Stalin and Voroshiiov mount guard over remains of Lenin's sister, dictators first appearance since 'purge'. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator made his first appearance in public since the execution of the Red Army generals when, with Marshal Voroshilov, the War Commissioner, he stood in the guard of honour over the remains of Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, sister of Lenin and one of the founders of the Communist State. The lying in state took place in the Hall of Columns of the House of Trade Unions in Moscow. Photo shows, Stalin (right) and Marshal Voroshilov, mounting guard over the flower deck
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RMTABYXM–Last death execution by fire in Berlin in the year 1786, the burning of the thief and murderer incendiary Hoerner
![Public execution of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro in the US state of Kentucky. [automated translation] Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2GY4RJB/public-execution-of-rainey-bethea-in-owensboro-in-the-us-state-of-kentucky-automated-translation-2GY4RJB.jpg "Public execution of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro in the US state of Kentucky. [automated translation] Stock Photo")
RM2GY4RJB–Public execution of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro in the US state of Kentucky. [automated translation]
RMF1M08F–Conrad, aka Conradin (1252-1268) was the last direct heir of the House of Hohenstaufen. He was Duke of Swabia, one of the five stem duchies of the medieval German kingdom. He was the nominal King of Jerusalem (1254–1268) and Sicily (1254–1258). After his attempt to reconquer Sicily failed, he was caught, tried as a traitor and on 29 October 1268 was beheaded.
![Photographs killed communists by the TNI [made in Madioen, September 1948] Audience, including many children, in public execution. Around a building with a staircase. Blood drips the steps Date: September 1948 Location: Indonesia, Dutch East Indies Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2ARNNXP/photographs-killed-communists-by-the-tni-made-in-madioen-september-1948-audience-including-many-children-in-public-execution-around-a-building-with-a-staircase-blood-drips-the-steps-date-september-1948-location-indonesia-dutch-east-indies-2ARNNXP.jpg "Photographs killed communists by the TNI [made in Madioen, September 1948] Audience, including many children, in public execution. Around a building with a staircase. Blood drips the steps Date: September 1948 Location: Indonesia, Dutch East Indies Stock Photo")
RM2ARNNXP–Photographs killed communists by the TNI [made in Madioen, September 1948] Audience, including many children, in public execution. Around a building with a staircase. Blood drips the steps Date: September 1948 Location: Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
RMG4KYG7–A crowd gathered outside the gates of Wandsworth prison to read the notices posted on the doors of Wandsworth Prison, London, following the execution of John George Haigh, 39, for the murder of Mrs Olivia Durand-Deacon, a 69-year-old Kensington Widow whose body was destroyed in an acid bath.
RMT965CR–The breaking wheel, also known as the Catherine wheel or simply the wheel, was a torture device used for capital punishment from antiquity into early modern times for public execution by breaking the criminal's bones/bludgeoning him to death. Antoine François Desrues (1744 - 1777) was a French poisoner. He went to Paris to seek his fortune, and started in business as a grocer. He was known as a man of great piety and devotion, and his business was reputed to be a flourishing one.
RMP0EMCJ–. English: Fleuron from book: A true and genuine account of Lady Kirk, who was tried at the assizes at Winchester, in Hampshire, and found guilty of poisoning her husband, two Sons, and a Daughter, and received Sentence of Death; With A particular Relation of her public Execution; her Body being taken to the adjoining Common, and there burnt before ten Thousand Spectators; and also how her Daughter, at the Place of Execution, own'd herself guilty of the Crime, and that she had swore falsly against her Mother, and accordingly threw herself into the Fire, and was also burnt. 240 A true and genui
RMG3B7WG–HANGING Public hanging in Smithfield market in front of a large crowd. Date: Eighteenth century
RMTA2DF6–Illustration of the English caricaturist James Gillray on the French Revolution in 1793. In the foreground there is a Republican (sans-culotte), who plays the violin at the execution of the priests. In the background, a hanged judge between a sword and scales. At left, the scene of an execution by guillotine.
RMF1KY84–A 19th Century view of the River Seine, Place de la Concorde and Montmatre, From the Chamber of Deputies, Paris, France. The Place de la Concorde is the largest square in the French capital and located in the city's eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées. It was the site of many notable public executions, including the execution of King Louis XVI, during the French Revolution.
RM2BW3CAT–Double execution at Pentoville . 19 year old murderer hanged . The guilty were John Frederick Stockwell , the 19 year old boy who murdered Mr Dudly Hoard and Georgios Malli Georgiou , who murdered Thomas James . Photo shows members of the public reading a notice outside Pentonville prison after the execution . 14 November 1934
RM2F4AB41–All-portrait Marie Margarethe Beier, called Grete Beier, Mayor's daughter from Brand in Saxony, for murder in Freiberg on 23.07.1908 Guillotinated (last public execution of a woman)
RM2H8YN04–Warszawa, 1946-10-02. Msza polowa podczas uroczystego ods³oniêcia tablicy przy ul. Pu³awskiej 13 w miejscu publicznej egzekucji dokonanej przez Niemców. po/gr PAP/Jerzy Baranowski Warsaw, Oct. 2, 1946. A field mass during unveiling of a plaque at 13 Pulawska Street, the place of a public execution performed by Germans. po/gr PAP/Jerzy Baranowski
RMG0P0HD–The execution of Hugh M'Kail, c. 1640-1662, market-cross of Edinburgh, hanged on a gibbeton 20th of December
RM2H01T9M–Eugène Weidmann was the last person to be publicly executed by guillotine on the 17 June 1939
RMBA806B–Marie Antoinette, 2.11.1755 - 16.10.1793, Queen consort of France 10.5.1774 - 21.9.1792, her execution at Place de la Revolution, contemporary copper engraving by Helmann after C. Monnet, Artist's Copyright has not to be cleared
RMHT27XT–The execution of the Duke of Monmouth, Tower Hill, London, 15 July 1685 (1903). Artist: Unknown.
RMKAA4A8–HANGING WITCHES from George Macenzie's 1678 book 'Law and Customs in Scotland in Matters Criminal' published in Edinburgh. He had been involved in the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661-62. Note: prisoners in the tower, priest with bell, women awaiting execution, witchfinder at right receiving payment.
RMBJYYFT–justice, penitentiary system, execution, beheading, copper engraving by Daniel Chodowiecki to 'Elementarwerk' by Johannes Basedow, 1774,
RMT95489–An auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition held in a church. An auto-da-fé (act of faith) was the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics and apostates that took place when the Inquisitiors had decided their punishment, followed by the execution by the civil authorities of the sentences imposed. The most extreme punishment imposed on those convicted was execution by burning. The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1480 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I.
RMBHN79F–justice, penitentiary system, place of execution with gallows and wheel, woodcut by Hans Burgkmair, for 'Theuerdank' of emperor Maximilian I, 16th century,
RMP0EMCF–. English: Fleuron from book: A true and genuine account of Lady Kirk, who was tried at the assizes at Winchester, in Hampshire, and found guilty of poisoning her husband, two Sons, and a Daughter, and received Sentence of Death; With A particular Relation of her public Execution; her Body being taken to the adjoining Common, and there burnt before ten Thousand Spectators; and also how her Daughter, at the Place of Execution, own'd herself guilty of the Crime, and that she had swore falsly against her Mother, and accordingly threw herself into the Fire, and was also burnt. 240 A true and genui
RM2A4Y37W–Engraving of a Louis XVI on the scaffold before his execution during the French revolution. From Harper's magazine 1895
RMDB4XX0–National Socialism / Nazism, crimes, execution of 10 escaped and recaptured Russian prisoners of war and Croatian and Francophonic forced labourers, Cologne, Germany, 25.10.1944, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMH04BEN–The execution of Druze during the 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war (also called the 1860 Civil War in Syria). It was the culmination of a peasant uprising, which began in the Mount Lebanon mountain range as a rebellion of Maronite peasants against their Druze overlords.
RM2BW3CBB–Double execution at Pentoville . 19 year old murderer hanged . The guilty were John Frederick Stockwell , the 19 year old boy who murdered Mr Dudly Hoard and Georgios Malli Georgiou , who murdered Thomas James . Photo shows members of the public reading a notice outside Pentonville prison after the execution . 14 November 1934
RMC7H58E–executed Executions Capital punishment death penalty execution sentence death judicial process offence Crime
RMWHB91W–The Execution of the Cato Street Conspirators - 1 May 1820 from an engraving at Kensington Palace, London. The planned murder of the entire cabinet..
RM2F55161–All-portrait Marie Margarethe Beier, called Grete Beier, Mayor's daughter from Brand in Saxony, for murder in Freiberg on 23.07.1908 Guillotinated (last public execution of a woman)
RM2H8YN1Y–Warszawa, 1946-10-02. Uczestnicy mszy polowej odprawianej podczas uroczystego ods³oniêcia tablicy przy ul. Pu³awskiej 13 w miejscu publicznej egzekucji dokonanej przez Niemców. po/gr PAP/Jerzy Baranowski Warsaw, Oct. 2, 1946. Participants in a field mass during unveiling of a plaque at 13 Pulawska Street, the place of a public execution performed by Germans. po/gr PAP/Jerzy Baranowski
RF2CFPTPR–Letter from Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont, Charlotte Corday, July 27, 1768 - July 17, 1793, of 15 July 1793 the Committee of Public Safety, two days before his execution / Brief von Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d’Armont, 27. Juli 1768 - 17. Juli 1793, vom 15. Juli 1793 an den Sicherheitsausschuß, zwei Tage vor der Hinrichtung, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,
RMF1M0AY–Danton and his colleagues on their way to the scaffold, after trial in April 15th 1794. George Jacques Danton (1759 -1794) was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution, in particular as the first president of the Committee of Public Safety. Danton's role in the onset of the Revolution has been disputed; many historians describe him as 'the chief force in the overthrow of the French monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic'. He was guillotined by the advocates of revolutionary terror after accusations of leniency toward the enemies of the Revolution.
RMHT27XG–The execution of the Earl of Strafford on Tower Hill, London, 12 May 1641 (1903). Artist: Unknown.
RMT9544K–Bas-relief of execution by elephant at Preah Khan (Royal Sword) a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built in the 12th century. Execution by elephant was a common method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, where Asian elephants were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives in public executions. The animals were trained and versatile, able to kill victims immediately or to torture them slowly over a prolonged period.
RMR0X6TE–Execution of a malefactor in public in a city square of Trabzon, Turkey, around 1870. 19th century engraving.
RMP0EMCM–. English: Fleuron from book: A true and genuine account of Lady Kirk, who was tried at the assizes at Winchester, in Hampshire, and found guilty of poisoning her husband, two Sons, and a Daughter, and received Sentence of Death; With A particular Relation of her public Execution; her Body being taken to the adjoining Common, and there burnt before ten Thousand Spectators; and also how her Daughter, at the Place of Execution, own'd herself guilty of the Crime, and that she had swore falsly against her Mother, and accordingly threw herself into the Fire, and was also burnt. 240 A true and genui
RM2K8TPBF–Oslo 19590312 The Old Rikshospitalet, in its time designed by Christian Henrik Grosch, is demolished. In the background, the new government building. The artwork on the gable wall is sandblasted reliefs with symbolic figures, designed by architect Erling Viksjø, who collaborated with the artist Carl Nesjar on the technical execution. Photo: NTB / NTB
RF2B7JR5C–This Chinese murderer and pirate is being publicly executed in a busy thoroughfare. Cage planks fit snuggly tight around his neck. If he slips, he will strangle to death. His hands are tied to the side of his cage. He balances on a pile of flat stones and each day, one stone is removed from the pile. He will stand until he can't, or they take away the last stone. Dense crowds watched all the time. In those days, law-abiding Chinese shaved the front of their heads. Condemned criminals were held until their hair grew out. To see my other vintage images, Search: Prestor vintage China odd
RM2K8N862–Oslo 19580724. The new government building under construction, June 1958. The artwork on the facade are sandblasted reliefs with symbolic figures, designed by architect Erling Viksjø, who collaborated with the artist Carl Nesjar on the technical execution. Old buildings in the area have not yet been demolished. 17352 Photo: Jan Nordby/NTB
RMMPPPBP–'Execution of slave trader Nathaniel Gordon in the Tombs prison in New York', 1862', (1938). Artist: Unknown.
RMCWBNNK–Final public protests against execution of Sacco and Vanzetti at New York City's Union Square on August 23, 1927. Many
RMC7FRPT–Brownists Brownist execution hang hanging gallows murder death sentence English Dissenters Robert Browne Tolethorpe Hall Rutland
RMW7EYMX–Execution of three Carthusian martyrs, Tyburn, London, 1535 (1904). Artist: Nicolas Beatrizet.
RM2H8YN24–Warszawa, 1946-10-02. Uczestnicy mszy polowej odprawianej podczas uroczystego ods³oniêcia tablicy przy ul. Pu³awskiej 13 w miejscu publicznej egzekucji dokonanej przez Niemców. po/gr PAP/Jerzy Baranowski Warsaw, Oct. 2, 1946. Participants in a field mass during unveiling of a plaque at 13 Pulawska Street, the place of a public execution performed by Germans. po/gr PAP/Jerzy Baranowski
RMW7DJCB–The execution of Girolamo Savonarola in the Piazza Della Signoria, Florence, 1882. Artist: Unknown
RMHT279M–Execution of three Carthusian martyrs, Tyburn, London, 1535 (1904). Artist: Nicolas Beatrizet.
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