Execution punishment posters & prints

The Garrotte Eugenio Lucas y Padilla

Old woman drowned at Ratcliff Highway School English

The Guilty William Henry Pyne

Execution of a criminal, Lime Street, City of London Anonymous

Figures impaled on a pole in Egypt as a punishment Charles Angot

Hobart Town Chain Gang, c.1831 Charles Bruce

Jonathan Wild going to the place of execution, London Anonymous

The Knout, and Public Whipping in Russia Anonymous

Heads of Russian Spies to Chinese Emperor Russo-Japanese War Anonymous

Punishments of Convicts - Torture and Death by the Shower-Bath at Sing Sing Anonymous

Execution of Kemmler, the first man to die in the electric chair, USA, 6 August 1890 Unknown

The execution of Aymerigot Marcel at Paris Anonymous

Chinese Art: Scenes of torture and executions of prisoners Anonymous

A page from a Punishment series: Punishment for murder, c. 1760 Unknown

French Penalty, between 1824 and 1828. Francisco Goya

In London the Jesuit William Ireland is hung and John Grove is quartered for a proposed regicide Pieter van der Aa I

The Punishment, 1850 Francis William Edmonds

Life of a Burmese Dacoit, and Executed Anonymous

Execution of a Chinese criminal Anonymous

A Prison of Shame, Perhaps a Penal Settlement, Stared Him in the Face. Anonymous

Illustration Of Virginius Crew Execution Anonymous

The Arrest and Execution of Sir Thomas More in 1535 Antoine Caron

St. Nicholas Delivers Three Unjustly Condemned Men from Death, 1888 Ilya Efimovich Repin

A Flogging at a Mandarin's Court. China, mid-19th century Unknown

Convicted pounded by four executioners Jan Luyken

Guillotined head of a parricide executed at Puy in 1825 Francois Gabriel de Becdelievre

A capital execution Place de la Revolution Pierre Demachy

The grim executioner taking the labled head to exhibit a warning Underwood & Underwood

Execution of a Chinese Criminal Anonymous

Condemned to Death: Bashi-Bazouks Implicated in the Batak Massacre in the Prison at Philippopolis Anonymous

Fleet Prison, London Anonymous

One of China's terrible methods of death punishment Underwood & Underwood

Procession of criminals sentenced by Inquisition of Lisbon Anonymous

The Execution, after 1871 French School

Chinese Punishment Anonymous

Man saved by his guardian angel of the gallows Christoph Weigel