He was hanged on 23 May 1701, at ' Execution Dock ', Wapping, in London.

His associates Richard Barleycorn, Robert Lamley, William Jenkins, Gabriel Loffe, Able Owens, and Hugh Parrot were convicted, but pardoned just prior to hanging at Execution Dock.

Wapping was also the site of ' Execution Dock ', where pirates and other water-borne criminals faced execution by hanging from a gibbet constructed close to the low water mark.

He had been convicted of piracy and hanged on 23 May 1701, at ' Execution Dock ', Wapping.

# Execution Dock ( 2009 )

In London, Execution Dock is located on the north bank of the River Thames in Wapping ; after tidal immersion, particularly notorious criminals ' bodies could be hung in cages a little further downstream at either Cuckold's Point or Blackwall Point, as a warning to other waterborne criminals of the possible consequences of their actions ( such a fate befell Captain William Kidd in May 1701 ).

Visitors come to the Execution Dock where they find a board saying humorous but true crimes.

Hanging of a buccaneer at Execution Dock.

Execution Dock was used for more than 400 years in London to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers that had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts.

Wax figure of a pirate hanged at Execution Dock.

Those sentenced to death were usually brought to Execution Dock from Marshalsea Prison ( although some were also transported from the Newgate ).

Unlike hangings on land such as at Tyburn, the bodies of pirates at Execution Dock were not immediately cut down following death.

An account from The Gentleman's Magazine, dated February 4, 1796, gives a vivid portrayal of a typical execution at London's Execution Dock.

and conveyed in solemn procession to Execution Dock, there to receive the punishment

Rocque's map of 1746 showing location of Execution Dock Stairs at Wapping, London

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An early Edison production was The Execution Of Mary, Queen Of Scots.

While others were leaving the country for new and greater opportunities, David stayed to help destroy the old order ; he was a regicide who voted in the National Convention for the Execution of Louis XVI.

Unique among all the one minute long films made by the Edison company, which recorded parts of the acts of variety performers for their Kinetoscope viewing machines, was The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Execution was neither performed by the Church, nor was it a sentence available to the officials involved in the inquisition, who, as clerics, were forbidden to kill.

Execution was to admit defeat, that the Church was unable to save a soul from imagined heresy, which was the goal of the inquisition.

To counteract this, the Small Order Execution System ( SOES ) was established, which provides an electronic method for dealers to enter their trades.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

The military service record of Eddie Slovik, which is now a public archival record available from the Military Personnel Records Center, provides a detailed account of the actual execution of Slovik which took place in 1945 and it was upon this that most of the film The Execution of Private Slovik was based.

In 1974, the book was adapted for a TV movie starring Martin Sheen and also called The Execution of Private Slovik.

The artist Zhang Xiaogang sold a 1993 painting for US $ 2. 3 million in 2006, which included blank faced Chinese families from the Cultural Revolution era, while Yue Minjun's work Execution in 2007 was sold for a then record of nearly $ 6 million at Sotheby's.

Execution by firing squad was later replaced by lethal injection.

Execution by firing squad in the United Kingdom was limited to times of war, armed insurrection and within the military, although it is now outlawed in all circumstances, along with all other forms of capital punishment.

The film is based on a book that was first published under the title The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice ( 1978 ) by Thomas Hauser ( later republished under the title Missing in 1982 ).

Zündel's Samisdat Publications published his findings as The Leuchter Report: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Majdanek Poland ( published in England as Auschwitz: The End of the Line: The Leuchter Report-The First Forensic Examination of Auschwitz ) which the court accepted only as evidentiary display and not as direct evidence ; Leuchter was therefore required to explicate it and testify to the veracity of his findings under oath in the trial.

Michael's daughter, Ivy Meeropol, directed a 2004 documentary about her grandparents, Heir to an Execution, which was featured at the Sundance Film Festival.

The most dramatic work of the fresco cycle was the work set in the worm's-eye view perspective, St. James Led to His Execution.

* Intel Corporation has developed and implemented an IA-32 Execution Layer-a dynamic binary translator designed to support IA-32 applications on Itanium-based systems, which was included in Microsoft Windows server OS for Itanium architecture, as well as in several flavors of Linux, including Red Hat and Suse.

Another reform made during this period was the " Small Order Execution System ", or " SOES ", which required market makers to buy or sell, immediately, small orders ( up to 1000 shares ) at the market-makers listed bid or ask.

Execution of criminals and political opponents has been used by nearly all societies — both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent.

Criminal Execution by elephant | executed by an elephant, Baroda State | Baroda.

* The Adaptive Execution Office ( AEO ) is one of two new DARPA offices created in 2009 by the previous DARPA Director, Regina Dugan.

Execution of a Prolog program is initiated by the user's posting of a single goal, called the query.

* when multiple VMs are concurrently running on the same physical host, each VM may exhibit a varying and unstable performance ( Speed of Execution, and not results ), which highly depends on the workload imposed on the system by other VMs, unless proper techniques are used for temporal isolation among virtual machines.

* June 22 – Execution of John Fisher, Cardinal and Bishop of Rochester, by order of King Henry VIII of England.

Execution by hanging is described as follows: " In execution by hanging, the prisoner will be hung on a hanging truss which should look like a cross, while his ( her ) back is toward the cross, and ( s ) he faces the direction of Mecca Saudi Arabia, and his ( her ) legs are vertical and distant from the ground.

Execution would require the King to be tried and convicted of treason: and while most Lords agreed that Edward had failed to show due attention to his country, several Prelates argued that, appointed by God, the King could not be legally deposed or executed ; if this happened, they said, God would punish the country.

In 1960, Frank Sinatra announced his plan to produce a movie titled The Execution of Private Slovik, to be written by blacklisted Hollywood 10 screenwriter Albert Maltz.

Execution by electrocution, usually performed using an electric chair, is an execution method originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body.

Execution by firing squad, sometimes called fusillading ( from the French fusil, rifle ), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war.

Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice.

Execution by firing squad is distinct from other forms of execution by firearms, such as an execution by a single firearm to the back of the head or neck.

Execution by firing squad is the common capital punishment method used in Indonesia.