Death penalty posters & prints

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

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

French Penalty, between 1824 and 1828. Francisco Goya

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

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

French Penalty, between 1824 and 1828. Francisco Goya

The execution of the Nihilists, ca 1881 Anonymous

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

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

The Crucifixion, 1547. Giulio Campi

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

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

The distribution of milk at Saint-Lazare prison, ca 1794 Hubert Robert

The Crucifixion. Peter Paul Rubens

A Native Chief Ordering Europeans to be Put to Death, 1817 C. Bray

The execution of Robespierre on 28 July 1794, 1794 Anonymous

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

Death House &Exercise Yard Atop Singsing Anonymous

The Call for the Last Victims of the Terror, 7-9 Thermidor, Year 2 (25-27 July 1794) Charles Louis Lucien Muller

The official death sentence of Mata Hari, 1917 Anonymous

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

Robespierre and his accomplices being led to their execution, 1794 Pierre-Antoine Demachy

The Sentence of Death (La condamnation à mort), 1618 Jacques Callot

The execution of Robespierre and his supporters on 28 July 1794 Anonymous

Death Row San Quentin Prison Anonymous

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

The Condemnation to Death (La condamnation à mort), 1624 Jacques Callot

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

Convicted pounded by four executioners Jan Luyken

Le Matin: At the Foot of the Scaffold, 1893 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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

Cimon and Pero, mid-17th century Barthel Beham

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

Procession of criminals sentenced by Inquisition of Lisbon Anonymous

The Tombs, the Principal Temporary Police Prison in New York. 1870 Anonymous

Illinois - The shadow of death - Preparations for the execution of the condemned Anarchists, in the North Corridor of... Anonymous