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The purpose of this project is to honour the brave Kaszubian men and women during World War 2. They are modern heroes and heroines. The project will focus on Kaszubians who were executed, interned and otherwise detained by the Nazis and Russians during the years 1939 to 1945. Celem tego projektu jest uhonorowanie dzielnych mężczyzn i kobiet Kaszubskich z czasów II wojny światowej. To współcześn...
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
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...
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...
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...
Executed - Western Australia project focused on persons executed under the law of Western Australia, Australia. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.==Executed===Long Island, Houtman Abrolhos* Jeronimus Corneliszoon - 2 October 1629 - Hanged as party to the murder of 125 men, women and children* Lenert Michielsz - 2 October 1629 - Hanged as party to ...
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"...
Persons executed under the Australian Law in the State of Tasmania. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.==Tasmania - incomplete * Thomas England - about Mar 1806 - Hanged at Port Dalrymple for theft of pork from government stores at Port Dalrymple* James Keating - 14 April 1806 - Hanged at Hobart for theft of pork from government stores at Port Dalr...
==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...
This project is for people who were stabbed, speared, or impaled to death.
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...
Within weeks of the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 and the establishment of Sydney, New South Wales as the first permanent European settlement, Thomas Barrett became the first person to be executed in Australia under British law. Most of the earlier hangings were for stealing, one person hanged for stealing bread due to hunger. These people escaped the gallows in England, to, some of them, ...
Shot at Dawn - World War One306 British Army and Commonwealth soldiers executed after courts-martial for desertion and other capital offences during World War I. They received no medal, are never mentioned in memorial services and their grieving families received no pensionOf the ±200,000 men who had a court-martial during the First World War, 20,000 were found guilty of offences carrying the d...
Most executions in South Australia were at the Adelaide Gaol. Several at Mount Gambier and, prior to the gaol opening, in random locations.South Australia was a settlement that was not founded on convicts, and as such, being a free colony were free to set their standards as they saw fitting. The attitude in 1840 toward capital punishment is well expressed by this excerpt "However abhorrent such...
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...
Gillette Banne and Jacques Bertrault husband and wife whom were hanged, strangled on the cross of St. Andrew and broken on the wheel with a metal bar.* Jean Haudecoeur de Boucherville fist cut off before the door of the victim, and after six beatings to the legs, put on a wheel facing the sky waiting his death.* Romeo Sabourin was a spy during WWII and executed by the Nazis.
Persons executed under the laws of Australia in Territories and on Islands. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.==Norfolk Island* Peter McLean – 14 December 1800 – Irish convict and political prisoner, hanged without trial for conspiracy to mutiny* John Houlahan – 14 December 1800 – Irish convict and political prisoner, hanged without trial for cons...
Persons executed under Australian Law in the State of Queensland Australia. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.==Queensland* John Bulbridge – 18 December 1830 – Hanged at Moreton Bay for absconding from the penal colony there and committing a robbery at Port Macquarie.* Charles Fagan - 18 December 1830 - Hanged at Moreton Bay for absconding and com...
Persons executed under Australian Law in the State of Victoria Australia. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.Victoria* Tunnerminnerwait – Hanged at Melbourne on 20 January 1842 for the murder of two whalers at Cape Paterson* Maulboyheenner – Hanged at Melbourne on 20 January 1842 for the murder of two whalers at Cape Paterson* Charles Ellis – Hange...