[http://youtu.be/Y1uwsqT2Kkc] (YouTube link)150 ye... ...U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. It was the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Of the 392 prisoners of war who... ...led to a scaffold specially constructed for their execution . One had been given a reprieve at the last minute... ...their faces. Drumbeats...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/26/The-Mankato-Executions/
Jody Enders wrote in 1998 about a 1878 French acco... ...performed in 1549, in which the dramatic onstage execution was no special effect, but used a condemned priso...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/04/Medieval-Snuff-Drama/
Joe Arridy was convicted of the vicius rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl from a prominent family in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1936. He was sentenced to be executed for the crime, to which he confessed.Joe Arridy didn't as...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/25/The-Happiest-Man-on-Death-Row/
Ancient Arab swords. Note that some designs were m... ...from the point of view of the changing methods of executions , a point of view that has never been studied befo... ...st tree-less environment explains the use of this execution method. Arabs in the nearby sandy deserts of Saud... ...mes free of charge,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/19/the-ancient-and-modern-ecology-of-execution/
The sad truth about witches is that you don't have to be one -or even believe in them- to be executed for witchcraft. Read about eight women in history who each paid the price for what others thought she was doing. Some,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/10/8-famous-witches-burned-at-the-stake/
Human beings seemingly really enjoy getting crea... ...elty, as these (mostly) out of fashion methods of execution illustrate, including the Spanish Tickler: Used...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/20/the-15-most-brutal-methods-of-execution-of-all-time/
