Death Sentence Collection

Sketches from Mexico: court-martial of Mexican brigands at Puebla, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Sketches from Mexico: court-martial of Mexican brigands at Puebla, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by M. Beauce, an illustration relating to '...the capture of sixteen brigands

Sketches from Mexico: Banuelos José de Jesús, the famous Mexican brigand chief, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Sketches from Mexico: Banuelos Jose de Jesus, the famous Mexican brigand chief, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by M. Beauce, '...a portrait of Banuelos Jose de Jesus

Searching Neapolitan prisoners at St. Angelo - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank... 1860. Creator: Unknown
Searching Neapolitan prisoners at St. Angelo - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860. War in Italy. A party of prisoners taken by Bixio's division in the engagement of

The Story of Susanna: The Elders as Judges, c1488-90. Creator: Lorenzo Costa
The Story of Susanna: The Elders as Judges, c1488-90. This panel is from a series illustrating critical events in the life of the biblical figure Susanna

Costumes de Différents Pays, Homme Condamné au Feu par l'Inquisition de Goa, c1797
Costumes de Differents Pays, Homme Condamne au Feu par l'Inquisition de Goa, c1797

Act IV: Envoys from the Shogun Approach Lady Kaoyo and Group at Enya's... between c1835 and c1839
Act IV: Envoys from the Shogun Approach Lady Kaoyo and Group at Enya's Castle, Bringing Sentence of Death to Enya, Lady Kaoyo Is Surrounded by Cherry Blossoms Gathered to Cheer Enya during His

Portrait of Takahashi Oden, 1879. Creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika
Portrait of Takahashi Oden, 1879. Takahashi Oden (1848-1879) was known for killing a man and being the last woman in Japan to be put to death by beheading

Execution at Bombay of a Mutinous Havildar and Sepoy, by Blowing from Guns, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Execution at Bombay of a Mutinous Havildar of the Native Marines and Sepoy of the 10th Native Infantry, by Blowing from Guns on the Esplanade, in the presence of a large concourse of people, 1857

Head of a Chinese Criminal exposed in a Cage to his Children...1857. Creator: Unknown
Head of a Chinese Criminal exposed in a Cage to his Children, from a drawing by a Chinese artist...1857. The penal code of China...is marked by great barbarity

Garotting a Chinese Criminal - from a drawing by a Chinese artist, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Garotting a Chinese Criminal - from a drawing by a Chinese artist, 1857. The penal code of China...is marked by great barbarity

Chinese Criminal led to Execution - from a drawing by a Chinese artist, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Chinese Criminal led to Execution - from a drawing by a Chinese artist, 1857. The penal code of China...is marked by great barbarity

"The Martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer", painted by Sir George Hayter, M.A.S.L. - from the Exhibition of the British Institution, 1856

La Mort de Sénèque, 1773. Creator: Jacques-Louis David
La Mort de Seneque, 1773. The Death of Seneca. The Roman philosopher Seneca, accused of having participated in a conspiracy against the Emperor Nero, was ordered to commit suicide

La Mort de Sénèque, 1773. Creator: Jacques-Louis David
La Mort de Seneque, 1773. The Death of Seneca. The Roman philosopher Seneca, accused of having participated in a conspiracy against the Emperor Nero, was ordered to commit suicide

Sir Richard Perryn, n.d. Creator: Gainsborough Dupont
Sir Richard Perryn, n.d. The Honourable Sir Richard Perryn Kn[igh]t. One of the Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, and Vice Chamberlain of the County Palatine of Chester'

Ward for Condemned Male Prisoners, Newgate Prison, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Ward for Condemned Male Prisoners, Newgate Prison, [London], 1850. Those sentenced capitally are taken to the condemned cells, not to leave them again until their last moment, except for chapel

Scene the Last from "La Juive", at the Royal Italian Opera, 1850. Creator: Walter George Mason
Scene the Last from "La Juive", at the Royal Italian Opera, [London], 1850....the grand square, filled with the vast populace, and the city in the distance

Cimon and Pero, ca. 1630-1700. Creator: Anon
Cimon and Pero, ca. 1630-1700

Christ Carrying the Cross, ca. 1475-80. Creator: Martin Schongauer
Christ Carrying the Cross, ca. 1475-80. Detail from a larger artwork

Jephthas Daughter, 1874. Creator: Chauncey Bradley Ives
Jephthas Daughter, 1874. Jephthas only child, a virgin daughter, contemplates her death after her father made a promise to God that if his army was victorious

Daniel Saving Susanna, the Judgment of Daniel, and the Execution of the Elders, c. 1500

The Condemnation to Death, c. 1618. Creator: Jacques Callot
The Condemnation to Death, c. 1618

Christ Condemned to Death by Pilate, c. 1624 / 1625. Creator: Jacques Callot
Christ Condemned to Death by Pilate, c. 1624/1625

A Martyr Of The 16th Century - Johanna Van Santhoven, 1883. Creator: Willem Geets
A Martyr Of The 16th Century - Johanna Van Santhoven, 1883. [Johanna Van Santhoven, a Protestant, Led Out to be Buried Alive]

Roman Charity (La Chariteromaine). Creator: Claude Mellan
Roman Charity (La Charite romaine)

Francesco I d Este Punishes a Soldier by Death who had Stolen a Chalice from the Holy Church, from L Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...]

Francesco I d Este Sentences a Noble French Official to Death as an Example to Prevent Future Scandalous Excesses within the Church

The death of Marcus Atilius Regulus, shown being nailed into a tub by the Carthagi... ca
The death of Marcus Atilius Regulus, shown being nailed into a tub by the Carthaginians, ca. 1661-62

Visit of a Clergyman to Bastide, Sausion, and Collard, ca. 1825

La Toilette des Morts, from "Illustrated London News", July 25, 1863
La Toilette des Morts, from " Illustrated London News", July 25, 1863

Death of Socrates, 19th century. Creator: Anon
Death of Socrates, 19th century

The Death of Socrates, ca. 1749. Creator: Michel-Francois Dandre-Bardon
The Death of Socrates, ca. 1749

The Last Moments of John Brown, 1882-84. Creator: Thomas Hovenden
The Last Moments of John Brown, 1882-84

The execution of Johan van Oldenbarneveldt, 1619, (1754). Creator: Isaak Tirion
The execution of Johan van Oldenbarneveldt, 1619, (1754).s Lands Advokaat Joan van Oldenbarneveld, op t Hofschavot in den Haage, gereed, om onthalst te worden, in t jaar 1619

Hanging of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, Washington DC, USA, 7th July, 1865. The assassinination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth was part of a wider conspiracy

Execution of slave trader Nathaniel Gordon in the Tombs prison in New York, 1862, (1938). Sentimental enthusiasm for notions of brotherhood of man found frequent

Charles I, on His Way to the Scaffold, (1649), c1910
Charles I (1600-1649) was monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. On the day of his execution he walked under guard from St Jamess Palace

Students executed, (1871), c1920s
Executed Students. Several medical students were accused on 23 November 1871 having desecrated the tomb of the Spanish journalist Castanon, 45 were arrested

Juan Clemente Zenea, (1832-1871), 1920s
Juan Clemente Zenea. Poet born in Bayamo in 1838. In Mexico and the United States, published songs of the afternoon (1860). He had separatist ideas

Eduardo Facciolo, (1829-1852), 1920s
Eduardo Facciolo was born on February 7th 1829. He printed the separatist newspaper The voice of the people (Lavoz del pueblo) led by Juan Bellido de Luna

Last moments of the Emperor Maximilian, 1867, (late 19th century). Engraving after the 1882 picture by Jean-Paul Laurens, showing the Emperor of Mexico about to be executed

The shooting of Admiral Byng on board the Monarque, 1757
The shooting of Admiral John Byng on board the Monarque, 1757. British admiral John John Byng (1704-1757) was shot to death on board the Monarque, at Spithead

Wallace Executed, 1305, (c1850). After his trial, Scottish patriot William Wallace (1270-1305) was stripped naked and dragged through the City of London at the heels of a horse

Court session. Illustration from the book Phisicke Against Fortune by Petrarch, 1532. From a private collection

Six anarchists executed in Barcelona, 1894. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 4th June 1894

A letter written by James Crofts, 1st Duke of Monmouth, begging for his life, July 1685. Letter from James, Duke of Monmouth (1649-1685), Pretender to throne of Scotland and England

The King of Kashmir dispenses justice, late 13th century, (early 15th century). Artist: Master of Boucicaut
The King of Kashmir dispenses justice, late 13th century, (early 15th century). Marco Polo (1254-1324) Venetian traveller and merchant, left Venice with his father and uncle in 1271

Execution of Kemmler, the first man to die in the electric chair, USA, 6 August 1890
Execution of Kemmler, the first man to die in the electric chair, Auburn Prison, USA, 6 August 1890. William Kemmler, a brute who chopped a woman to bits with an axe

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