These powers were used after the IRA assassinated Minister Kevin O ' Higgins ( in revenge for the executions during the Civil War ) in 1927 after which several hundred IRA suspects were interned.

In reprisal for O ' Higgins ' role in the executions of captured republicans, the Anti-Treaty IRA murdered his father and burned his family home in Stradbally, County Laois.

On Sunday, 10 July 1927, O ' Higgins was assassinated at the age of 35 on the Booterstown Avenue side of Cross Avenue while on his way to Mass at the Church of the Assumption by three anti-Treaty members of the IRA, Timothy Coughlin, Bill Gannon and Archie Doyle, in revenge for his part in the executions of IRA men during the civil war.

In response to the trial and executions, on June 20, 1675 ( O. S.

Originally a monthly bulletin of executions, produced by the Keeper of Newgate Prison in London, the Calendar's title was appropriated by other publishers, who put out biographical chapbooks about notorious criminals such as Sawney Bean, Dick Turpin, John Wilkes and Moll Cutpurse.

Policy became considerably more radical, as " The Law of the Maximum " set food prices and led to executions of offenders.

The guillotine became the symbol of a string of executions.

The massacre became a source of political controversy, with the Soviets eventually claiming that Germany committed the executions when the Soviet Union retook Poland in 1944.

The guillotine ( called the " National Razor ") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité ( Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ), and Madame Roland, as well as many others, such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade.

The guillotine became the symbol of a string of executions: Louis XVI had already been guillotined before the start of the terror ; Marie-Antoinette, the Girondists, Philippe Égalité, Madame Roland and many others lost their lives under its blade.

Belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires.

Cheka became notorious for torture and mass summary executions, performed especially during the Red Terror and the Russian Civil War.

A few days later, the claim of an incipient SA rebellion was publicised and became the official reason for the entire wave of arrests and executions.

Coptic years are counted from 284, the year Diocletian became Roman Emperor, whose reign was marked by tortures and mass executions of Christians, especially in Egypt.

In 1831, the town became famous as the site of the trials and subsequent executions of Nat Turner and those involved in the Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion of 1831.

Tallien suggested, “ It is better to marry than to be beheaded .” After Tallien became involved with Cabarrús, there was a notable decline in the number of executions in Bordeaux.

The present tower replaced an old Byzantine fortification which was mentioned around the 12th century and reconstructed by the Ottomans to fortify the city's harbour ; it became a notorious prison and scene of mass executions during the period of Ottoman rule.

Though initially deeply unsympathetic to the Rising ( the leading Irish nationalist newspaper, the Irish Independent called for their execution ), Irish public opinion switched and became more sympathetic due to manner of their treatment and executions.

During the Nazi German occupation of Poland Gostyń became the site of public executions and deportation actions.

SRB headquarters at Nakasero became the scene of torture and executions over the next years.

After presiding over mass arrests and executions during the Great Purge, Yezhov became its victim.

According to Asser, Eadburh became all powerful, and often demanded the executions or exile of her enemies.

The initial press reaction to the capture of the Virginius was conservative, however, as news of executions poured into the nation, certain newspapers became more aggressive in promoting Cuban intervention and war.

This led to a chronic shortage of legitimate subjects for dissection, and this shortage became more serious as the need to train medical students grew, and the number of executions fell.

By the 1990s, political executions became less common, but not unheard of, and by the 21st century are rare, carried out mainly in cases of " armed " or " riot-related " regime opposition.

Mackenzie was captain of the USS Somers when it became the only U. S. Navy ship to undergo a mutiny which led to executions, including Philip Spencer, the nineteen-year-old son of the Secretary of War John C. Spencer.

The retaliatory executions became known as the Bascom Affair ; they initiated another eleven years of open warfare between the varying groups of Apache and the United States settlers, the U. S. Army and the Confederate Army.

A small fortress built in 1872 on the legendary Lysa Hora (" Bald Mountain ") in 1906 became a place of executions for convicted political inmates.

From the onset on September 11, 1973 the MIR became a major focus of death squads and its members began to be subjected to extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances.

88, 89, and 98 Aquarii represent Fou-youe, the axes used as weapons and for hostage executions.

Later they repented the executions, but made up for it by executing those who had accused the generals before them.

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The UN General Assembly has adopted, in 2007, 2008 and 2010, non-binding resolutions calling for a global moratorium on executions, with a view to eventual abolition.

The Torah ( Jewish Law ), also known as the Pentateuch ( the first five books of the Christian Old Testament ), lays down the death penalty for murder, kidnapping, magic, violation of the Sabbath, blasphemy, and a wide range of sexual crimes, although evidence suggests that actual executions were rare.

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They also paint him as bloodthirsty and cruel, overly fond of both gladiatorial combat and executions, and very quick to anger ( though Claudius himself acknowledged the latter trait, and apologized publicly for his temper ).

The first paragraph of the article contains an exception for lawful executions, although this exception has largely been superseded by Protocols 6 and 13.

Also often advanced as a possible context for 1 Peter is the trials and executions of Christians in the Roman province of Bithynia-Pontus under Pliny the Younger.

Following the 2009 ouster of the president, the Honduran military together with other government security forces were allegedly responsible for thousands of allegedly arbitrary detentions and for several forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions of opponents to the de facto government, including members of the Democratic Unification Party.

Its features included isolation of victims from the outside world, elaborate roll calls and work details, the use of force and executions to extract obedience, and a strict disciplinary code for the guards.

Human Rights Watch has cited a number of summary executions as particular examples of violations of the rules of warfare, including the case of Muhammad Swairki, 28, a cook for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's presidential guard, who was thrown to his death, with his hands and legs tied, from a 15-story apartment building in Gaza City.

Firstly, the British declared martial law in parts of the country — allowing for internment and executions of IRA men.

While initial enthusiasm for the Iranian revolution in the Muslim world was intense, it has waned as " purges, executions, and atrocities tarnished its image ".

Russian writer Vadim Erlikman, for example, makes the following estimates: executions, 1. 5 million ; gulags, 5 million ; deportations, 1. 7 million out of 7. 5 million deported ; and POWs and German civilians, 1 milliona total of about 9 million victims of repression.

The law allowed for executions for convictions of armed robbery, rape, terrorism, and hijacking.

Although Mao's stated goals of combating bureaucracy, encouraging popular participation, and stressing China's self-reliance are generally seen as laudable — and the rapid industrialization that began during Mao's reign is credited for laying a foundation for China's development in the late 20th century — the harsh methods he used to pursue them, including torture and executions, have been widely rebuked as being ruthless and self-defeating.

He stated that within the drug trade firearms are used as status symbols, a means of protection and ... for executions ... to intimidate potential informants and to enforce debt repayment ".

He is known for many executions, including those of his mother and the probable murder by poison of his stepbrother, Britannicus.

Amputation was an accepted form of punishment for stealing, and public executions could often be seen at the Kabul football stadium.

Potassium chloride is used in the United States for executions via lethal injection.

According to an international commission report released by the Romanian government in 2004, Antonescu's dictatorial government of Romania is responsible for the murder in various forms ( including deportations to concentration camps and executions by the Romanian Army and Gendarmerie and the German Einsatzgruppen ), between 280, 000 to 380, 000 Jews in Romania and in the war zone of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria.