Capital punishment posters & prints

The execution of Aymerigot Marcel at Paris Anonymous

The execution of the Nihilists, ca 1881 Anonymous

French Penalty, between 1824 and 1828. Francisco Goya

The Gas Chamber at San Quentin Anonymous

Spain. Aragon. Reign of Philip II. Death of Don Juan de Lanuza (1564-1591) by beheading. Anonymous

A capital execution Place de la Revolution Pierre Demachy

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

The Morning of the Execution of the Streltsy in 1698, 1881 Vasilij Ivanovic Surikov

A Native Chief Ordering Europeans to be Put to Death Anonymous

The Nihilists carried to Execution in St. Petersburg, ca 1881 Anonymous

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

16th Century Print of People Burning Three Witches Alive Anonymous

The Punishment of Russian Robbers on the River Volga, 1778 Anonymous

A Boyars Execution During the Reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, 1906. Vasili Vladimirov

The Farewell of Calas to his Family Anonymous

The Morning of the Execution of the Streltsy in 1698, 1881 Vasilij Ivanovic Surikov

Scaffold with a man about to be hanged English School

Grand Inquisitor Passing Sentence Anonymous

Spain. Aragon. Reign of Philip II. New tortures in Zaragoza during the occupation by Castilian troop Anonymous

The execution of the terrorists in Russia, 1884-1885 Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin

Cleopatra Testing Poison on Condemned Slaves, 1887 Alexandre Cabanel

The Crucifixion. Peter Paul Rubens

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

Captain William Kidd with pirate flag and noose Anonymous

Leading Light of Christianity, Nero's Torches, 1882 Henryk Siemieradzki

The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen, 1660. Pietro da Cortona

Judge Isaac C Parker, the 'Hanging Judge', c1870s-1880s Anonymous

Headsman's Axe, from the Arms of All Nations series for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Bra…, 1887 Allen & Ginter

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

Court session. Illustration from the book Phisicke Against Fortune by Petrarch, 1532 Hans Weiditz the Younger

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

Elysium, or the State of Final Retribution James Barry

The Magpie on the Gallows, 1568 Pieter the Elder Bruegel

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

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

Soviet power does not punish, it corrects (The slogan on the wall of the former Red Corner punishmen Anonymous