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Death by Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck. Please add profiles of people who have died by hanging to this project. 1) Hanging has been used as a method of capital punishment since medieval times, and is the official execution method in numerous countries and regions. 2) Hanging is also a common method of suicide in which a person applies a ligature to...
This project will include all manner of executions, although primarily they were executed by firing squad.==Parent projects==* Cause of death portal ** Unnatural death causes *** Homicide **** Capital punishment ==Child projects==* Sandarmokh ==См также==* Memorial: USSR political terror victims
Please add Geni profiles for our drowned ones to this project. Additional demographic data is especially appreciated as added resources.==Drowning==From Wikipedia Drowning is defined as respiratory impairment from being in or under a liquid. It is further classified by outcome into: death , ongoing health problems and no ongoing health problems . Using the term "near drowning" to refer to those...
Deliberate Beheadings===Please add Geni profiles of those who died by being beheaded . It might help to make sub sections to index profiles, as we've done for England.* ( Accidental decapitations are in the project Decapitations, Accidental found under the "Accidental, Unusual death" headings) Translations more than welcome.Note: The "English Beheadings" project has been consolidated into this ...
Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war.Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice. Some reasons for its use are that firearms are usually readily available and a gunshot to a vital organ, such as brain or heart, most often, will kill relatively quickly.A firing squad is no...
==Please add the profiles of those who died from starvation.== * Please feel free to create a related project * If a project is needed for the Cause of Death portal not listed, please see: Cause of Death Projects needed??? Tags: cause of death, starvation, malnutrition, medical, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, eating disorder, celiac disease, coma, diabetes mellitus, famine, Child/ Elder/ De...
=Flagellation=This project is for people who were beaten or flogged to death. People Beaten to Death: * Bakari Henderson - ABC News - American tourist’s beating death in Greece: What to know. by Morgan Winsor & Dragana Jovanovic 13 Jul 2017 * Kelly Thomas (1974-2011) ( Wikipedia - Death of Kelly Thomas )* Matthew Shepard (1976-1998) - Wikipedia - Matthew Shepard * Delvin Mendoza-Chaparro - Dail...
Please add Geni profiles of those executed by the state by burning . For accidental deaths by burning, please use the project Death by burning . Deliberately causing death through the effects of combustion, or effects of exposure to extreme heat, has a long history as a form of capital punishment. Many societies have employed it as an execution method for such crimes as treason, rebellious ac...
Scope of Project ==This project aims to identify people executed on order of the Kings and Queens of England and Great Britain.== Overview ==Under the law of the United Kingdom, high treason is the crime of disloyalty to the Crown. Offences constituting high treason include plotting the murder of the sovereign; having sexual intercourse with the sovereign's consort, with his eldest unmarried da...
No profiles please. Create projects and index them on this page in the methods section. Add profiles to those projects. Please feel free to add "related projects" also. ===definition===From New World Encyclopedia : Capital punishment , or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for the most serious crimes—known as capital crimes. The word "capital"...
==Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered== This particular form of capital punishment was used in England, from the 13th century to 1817, though it was legally on the books from 1351 to 1870.It was used for men convicted of high treason.(Women were burnt at the stake, and nobles often, but not always, had their sentences commuted to beheading.)The punishment consisted of being drawn by a horse to the pla...
From: injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing immediate death. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide. It kills the person by first putting the person to sleep, and t...
Please add profiles of those who were executed in an Electric Chair.== Tags: electrocution, electric chair, capital punishment, electric shock, Gruesome Gertie, Old Smokey, Old Sparky, Yellow Mama, Electrocution , a method of execution in which the condemned person is subjected to a heavy charge of electric current. Execution by electrocution, performed using an electric chair, is a method of e...
The breaking wheel, also known as the Catherine wheel (named for St. Catherine whom was to be executed in this fashion) or simply the wheel, was a torture device used for capital punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern times for public execution by bludgeoning to death. It was used during the Middle Ages and was still in use into the 19th century. * Frederick of Isenberg * Gillette Banne...
Execution by elephant was a common method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, and particularly in India. Asian elephants were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives in public executions. The animals were trained and versatile, both able to kill victims immediately and to torture them slowly over a prolonged period. Employed by royalty, the elephants were used to signify bo...