#executed

[1medichan1]

badly drawn fucfjfin meme

[s-o-u-t-h-o-f-h-e-a-v-e-n-69]

Woodcut of Anne Askew's burning for heresy at Smithfield in 1546.

[getinvolvedyoulivehere]

This could have been any of us. Checking and securing you own property while holding your own weapon, having done nothing wrong, is enough to get gunned down by these trigger happy goons.  

[acmeoop]

Such Heroic Nonsense “Transformers: The Movie” (1986)

[scotianostra]

On January 13th 1958 serial killer, Peter Manuel, was arrested for spree of attacks that left 9 people dead.

Manuel had previous convictions for sexual violence and rape was a factor in some murders, such as 17-year-old Anne Kneilands in 1956 (for which he was never convicted due to insufficient evidence) and 17-year-old Isabelle Cooke in 1957 (whose body he located for police with the chilling words, “I’m standing on her now”). Others were more cold and almost gratuitous, like Peter and Doris Smart and their ten-year-old son Michael whom he all shot dead on New Year’s Day 1958, after which he simply relaxed in their Uddingston house for a week and took care of the cat.

Manuel defended himself at trial, with the usual results; however, latter-day investigations have argued that police in building this extremely high-profile case buried evidence of Manuels’ severe mental illness that might have saved him from the gallows.

In the STV drama In Plain Sight we saw the story of Chief Inspector William Muncie who spent over a decade obsessed with Manuel, Dougie Henshall played Muncie, Martin Compston Manuel.

Manuel was one of the last people to be executed in Scotland, only two more were sent to the gallows after him.

Read more details about this story here http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/manuel.html

[kateana01]

i hate myself

[thats-on-point]

Clip: Durham Report Suggests Clinton May Have Comitted Treason (Explicit)

[rabbitcruiser]

Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany on February 22, 1943.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1922 – Four Anti-Treaty IRA men from Dublin, who were captured with weapons in Co Wicklow, are shot by firing squad.

#OTD in 1922 – Four Anti-Treaty IRA men from Dublin, who were captured with weapons in Co Wicklow, are shot by firing squad.

In the first use of the powers enacted under the Public Safety Act, five Anti-Treaty IRA fighters who had been captured with arms in Co Wicklow were shot by firing squad in Dublin. On 19 November, three more Anti-Treaty IRA men were executed, also in Dublin. On 24 November, Robert Erskine Childers, an acclaimed author and secretary to the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations that had created the Irish…

[nandomando]

[thisdayinwwi]

Shot at Dawn: The 1st, the last and the oldest.

At 17-years-old Thomas James Highgate, L/10061, joined the Royal West Kent Regiment in February 1913. On 5 Sep 1914, the first day of the Battle of the Marne Private Highgate’s nerves got the better of him and he fled the battlefield. He was found in civilian clothes, arrested and sentenced to death. 19-year-old Private Thomas James Highgate was executed at 7:07 Sep 8 1914 by firing squad. He was the first soldier to be executed in WWI.

23-year-old Private Louis Harris, Service Number: 43055, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), 10th Bn was executed on Nov 7 1918 just four days before the end of fighting in WWI. He had actually tried in enlist in 1915 but was rejected for medical reasons but as standards were lowered he was conscripted.

32-year-old Private Ernest Jackson, Service Number: G/46730, Royal Fusiliers, 24th Bn was executed on Nov 7 1918 after his failed defense of mental illness was ignored. He was killed at 6:10 AM nineteen minutes before Harris.

46-years-old Private Harry Hendricks, Service Number: 4519, Leinster Regiment, 2nd Bn was executed on Aug 23 1918. He was the oldest soldier to be executed. There were 5 soldiers aged over 40 executed during WWI

Shot at DawnExecutions in World War One by Authority of the British Army ActBy Julian Putkowski, Julian Sykes

[scuttle-buttle]

@anteroom-of-death really fucking said

"AVENGERS 69: TOO AVENGE TOO FURIOUS"

Liz you're killing me oh my god

[s-o-u-t-h-o-f-h-e-a-v-e-n-69]

Robe and Axe of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, who was the official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 to 1864. During his tenure, he executed 

[that-one-dude]

RSD be like:

Ah yes I mildly upset someone, I should be executed.

[scotianostra]

May 23rd 1701 saw the execution of Captain William Kidd.

I’ve covered this a few weeks ago with the trial on  May 8th, here’s a wee bit more detail.

Kidd had done well enough as a relatively legitimate privateer raiding enemy French ships to settle down in colonial Manhattan in the 1690s. He made a prosperous marriage to a wealthy widow, and for several years he dwelt as a respectable burgher who helped underwrite construction of the still-extant landmark Trinity Church.

Induced by whatever reason of restlessness or cupidity, Kidd in 1696 came to captain the venture that would be his undoing: the voyage of the aptly if unimaginatively christened Adventure Galley. Backed by a who’s who of Whig worthies up to and including the king himself, Kidd set out for the Indian Ocean bearing letters of marque that authorized him not only to prey on the French, but to attack “Pirates, Freebooters, and Sea Rovers,” which is like when  Willie Sutton explained that he robbed banks because that’s where the money is.

The adventure flopped owing to the galley’s singular infelicity with locating suitable prizes. As 1697 stretched into 1698, there grew the prospect of ruin and the discontent of the crew — who, like Kidd’s investors, would only be paid out of such loot as their ship could capture. Desperation drove Kidd to increasingly reckless attacks against unauthorized targets, most notoriously an Armenian-owned merchantman called the Quedagh Merchant, heavy with trade goods owned by an Indian nobleman well-connected to London through the Mughal court. Kidd would argue that French passes purchased by that ship’s English captain made this a legal prize, but you can’t muddle high statecraft and big business on legal chicaneries. In English eyes he had by this and several other incidents gone the full pirate himself; on top of that, he also fatally bashed a truculent gunner about the head, which added charges of murder to his eventual indictment.

And so following his  arrest in New York City in 1698 he was taken to London to stand trial.

I think the complexities of the indictment that the English served on Captain Kidd are evident, it took nearly two years from his arrest to his execution, hence it has been argued ever since that the charges were trumped up. Kidd for his own part pleaded innocence and wrote plaintive letters to the king from his stinking cell in Newgate, to no avail. “It is a very hard Sentence,” he reproached the judge upon hearing his fate. “For my part, I am the innocentest Person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured Persons.”

But to no avail, his pleas fell on deaf ears and he was taken to  Execution Dock in Wapping where the gallows awaited.  The drama of his execution remained in circulation for many years to come, the rope snapped as he was hung, now this sometimes earned a reprieve for the condemned, but not for Kidd, the second drop was fateful and he was dead.

The tale of Kidd's notorious crimes continued to make its way into popular papers and magazines into the 20th century. Fifty years after his death the Penny London Post published an entire spread detailing his life and condemnation. In addition to this his life story had been made widely available via his public execution, the account of his trial (which sold so many copies it had to be reprinted).

Indeed the story of  Captain William Kidd lives on into the 21st century and is declared The most outrageous miscarriage of justice ever​ on the web page Pardon Captain Kidd, which you can find below.

https://pardoncaptainkidd.com/

[kateana01]

Hes so scared