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2 giorni fa · Hanging (in the past, for civil offences), firing squad (military offences). Brazil has always maintained the death penalty in wartime as part of its Military Code but, after Brazil became a Republic in 1889, capital punishment for civil offenses or for military offences committed in peacetime was abolished by the first republican Constitution, adopted in 1891.
3 giorni fa · Execution by firing squad: Political party: Nasjonal Samling (1933–45) Other political affiliations: Fatherland League (1930–31) Nordic People's ...
3 giorni fa · Pastor Karina de Vega, who was assigned to counsel Nigerian prisoner Okwudili Oyatanze – dubbed "The Death Row Gospel Singer" and one of those executed on Nusakambangan Island in the early hours of Wednesday morning – told the Sydney Morning Herald that the prisoners sang 'Bless the Lord O My Soul' and 'Amazing Grace' as they were lined up, bound to crosses, to face the firing squad.
1 giorno fa · Easter Rising. James Connolly ( Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile; [1] 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was an Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. He remains an important figure both for the Irish labour movement and for Irish republicanism. He became an ...
2 giorni fa · Death by burning. Death by burning is an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of public capital punishment, and many societies have employed it as a punishment for and warning against crimes such as treason, heresy, and witchcraft.
2 giorni fa · Subjected to pressures by the new Soviet-backed Petru Groza executive, he issued a decree in favour of execution. Together with his co-defendants Mihai Antonescu, Alexianu and Vasiliu, the former Conducător was executed by a military firing squad on 1 June 1946.
6 giorni fa · Draža Mihailović. Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović [a] ( Serbian Cyrillic: Драгољуб "Дража" Михаиловић; 27 April 1893 – 17 July 1946) was a Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. He was the leader of the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (Chetniks), a royalist and nationalist movement and guerrilla force ...
