Top Items About Executions
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | Revolutionary Thought | Despite their outspoken protests against royal corruption and inefficiency, Jeanne Roland and her husband found... | Anonymous | 201 | |
| Anecdotes | Robespierre | As an idealistic young man, Maximilien Robespierre was so opposed to the death penalty that he gave up a promising... | Anonymous | 64 | |
| Anecdotes | Danton`s Death | Despite his leadership in the early days of the French Revolution and his dedicated Republicanism thereafter, Danton... | Anonymous | 55 | |
| Anecdotes | John Byng | When John Byng was court-martialed and brought before the firing squad (for failing to relieve the island of Minorca... | Anonymous | 54 | |
| Quotes | Quote about Famous Last Words, Executions | `Lock and load. Let`s do it.` - G. W. Green before his execution by lethal injection in Texas on November 12,... | Anonymous | 51 | |
| Quotes | Quote about Famous Last Words, Goodbyes and Executions | `Adios.` - last words of John Thanos before his execution by lethal injection in Maryland on May 16,... | Anonymous | 40 | |
| Anecdotes | Servetus | Though Servetus - declared a heretic for his denial of the doctrine of the Trinity - narrowly escaped the Inquisition... | Anonymous | 34 | |
| Anecdotes | St. Lawrence`s Last Words | In 258 AD, for his refusal to surrender the church`s treasures to the Emperor Valerian, Saint Lawrence was slowly roasted... | Anonymous | 34 | |
| Anecdotes | Queen Supayalat | Queen Supayalat of Burma was responsible for one of the most atrocious mass murders of the nineteenth century. In a bid... | Anonymous | 32 | |
| Anecdotes | Pardon? | In 1830 President Andrew Jackson issued a pardon to a man (George Wilson) who had been convicted of robbing the United... | Anonymous | 31 |
