Execution punishment posters & prints

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

The execution of Aymerigot Marcel at Paris Anonymous

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

French Penalty, between 1824 and 1828. Francisco Goya

The Garrotte Eugenio Lucas y Padilla

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

The Guilty William Henry Pyne

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

Old woman drowned at Ratcliff Highway School English

Jonathan Wild going to the place of execution, London Anonymous

The Execution of Georges Cadoudal and his Accomplices, Place de Greve, 25th June 1804 Armand de Polignac

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

The Gas Chamber at San Quentin Anonymous

A Native Chief Ordering Europeans to be Put to Death Anonymous

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

Convicted pounded by four executioners Jan Luyken

16th Century Print of People Burning Three Witches Alive Anonymous

Man saved by his guardian angel of the gallows Christoph Weigel

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

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

Life of a Burmese Dacoit, and Executed Anonymous

Hobart Town Chain Gang, c.1831 Charles Bruce

A capital execution Place de la Revolution Pierre Demachy

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

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

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

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

Robespierre Guillotining The Executioner Engraving Anonymous

Illustration Of Virginius Crew Execution Anonymous

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

The execution of the Nihilists, ca 1881 Anonymous

Joachim von Carpzov orders his wife's beheading Jan Luyken

People to be Guillotined Anonymous

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

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

The Stoning of St. Stephen Michael Pacher