When three Jews, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah ( respectively renamed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego by their captors, to facilitate their assimilation into Babylonian culture ), refuse to take part, he has them cast into a fiery furnace.

Some historians believe that Hamilton exaggerated because, after being imprisoned by the Americans for war crimes, he had motivation to make his captors seem even worse.

The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

After the death of her father, she travels to America and is abducted by Indians during the French-Indian Wars and eventually marries one of her captors, a French officer named Philippe de Saint-Christophe ( or Christopher ).

Often strong men muscle the subject into a car and take him to a place where he is cut from everyone but his captors.

The subject's sleep is limited and he is told that he will not be released until his beliefs meet his captors ' approval.

* 2002 – Daniel Pearl, American Journalist, South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.

* 1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.

* 1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.

However, it is impossible to interact with such characters, because they have all been driven insane by their Strogg captors.

One of the complications facing police in a siege involving hostages is the Stockholm syndrome where sometimes hostages can develop a sympathetic rapport with their captors.

If this helps keep them safe from harm this is considered to be a good thing, but there have been cases where hostages have tried to shield the captors during an assault or refused to co-operate with the authorities in bringing prosecutions.

The deadline set by Jody's captors passes and Jody is to be executed.

The series follows a British former secret agent who is held prisoner in a mysterious coastal village resort where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job.

** Adolph Coors III, the chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped, and his captors demand a ransom of $ 500, 000.

** U. S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped ( he is later killed by his captors ).

* January 23 – Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Pakistan, accused of being a CIA agent by his captors.

* April 19 – Archbishop Alphege of Canterbury is murdered by his Danish captors.

* April 30 – King Louis IX of France is released by his Egyptian captors, after paying a ransom of one million dinars and turning over the city of Damietta.

Howie is shocked to see Rowan merrily embrace her captors and then notices that he is being surrounded.

The captors ' scheme is to use the children to blackmail the uncle into doing their bidding at the Luna conference.

Finally, Alison Weir, again drawing on the Fieschi Letter, has recently argued that Edward II escaped his captors, killing one in the process, and lived as a hermit for many years ; in this interpretation, the body in Gloucester Cathedral is of Edward's dead captor.

He also meets Dev Sibwarra, a Force-sensitive human who had been captured by the Ssi-Ruuk, who is killed in the battle after turning against his captors.

The source is from the " The Slaughter of the Spy-Journalist, the Jew Daniel Pearl ," made by Pearl's captors.

When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.

Almost all of them were sent to POW camps in Siberia or Central Asia where, due to being chronically underfed by their Soviet captors, many resorted to cannibalism.

In his book Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley details several instances of cannibalism of World War II Allied prisoners by their Japanese captors.

He escapes his captors and sacrifices his humanity in pursuit of the Golden Path.

He also sought to set an example by his actions there, turning the other cheek when being beaten and refusing to show his captors any dejected feelings.

King Richard, who had been captured by the Duke of Austria on his way back, was believed to still be in the arms of his captors.

When the besiegers deliver a note to yield up the captives, their Norman captors retort with a message for a priest to administer the Final Sacrament to the captives.

Lindh and about 80 survivors from the original 300 were forced out of hiding and recaptured, with the Northern Alliance captors then tightly binding Lindh's elbows behind his back.

* Chunquen: A slave species of the Kzinti, remarkable to their captors for the sentience of both sexes.

Brainiac ’ s robots attacked the Kryptonians, providing a distraction as Metallo and Reactron used their Kryptonite hearts to kill their captors and murder Zor-El.

They convoked a diet at Székesfehérvár and, reserving Mary's rights, offered a compromise with her captors.

He developed an interest in horse riding and hunting, diversions that later commended him to his Roman captors.

Noblemen could hope to be ransomed ; their families would have to send to their captors large sums of wealth commensurate with the social status of the captive.

If he swore to cease hostilities against the nation who held him captive, he could be repatriated or exchanged but could not serve against his former captors in a military capacity.

The Code of Conduct also requires service members to resist giving information to the enemy ( beyond identifying themselves ), receiving special favors or parole, or otherwise providing their enemy captors aid and comfort.

On 18 October 1977, Hanns-Martin Schleyer was shot to death by his captors en route to Mulhouse, France.