These executions took place in over 30 towns and villages in the first month of German occupation alone.

It stated " In the Commission's view, while the government of Nicaragua clearly intended to respect the lives of all those defeated in the civil war, during the weeks immediately subsequent to the Revolutionary triumph, when the government was not in effective control, illegal executions took place which violated the right to life, and these acts have not been investigated and the persons responsible have not been punished.

To preserve the purity of the occasion, no executions were permitted between the time when the religious ceremony began to when the ship returned from Delos, which took several weeks.

His governorship was the first in which no state executions took place, due to his opposition to capital punishment and his practice of pardoning and commuting the sentences of people condemned to execution.

The last executions of people convicted as witches in Europe took place in the 18th century.

In 184 BC, about 2, 000 people were executed for witchcraft ( veneficium ), and in 182-180 BC another 3, 000 executions took place, again triggered by the outbreak of an epidemic.

The assassinations that took place during summer and autumn 1941, beginning with Colonel Pierre-Georges Fabien's shooting of a German officer in the Paris Métro, caused fierce reprisals and the executions of hundreds of French hostages.

Locals complained about the noise, as the executions took place in the open air at 1am.

The last public hanging in West Virginia took place in Ripley in 1897, when John Morgan was hanged for murder ; the spectacle prompted the West Virginia Legislature to ban public executions soon after.

The last known executions on the wheel took place in Prussia in 1841.

There were no gas chambers at Bergen-Belsen, since the mass executions took place in the camps further east.

On November 18 the last executions took place when six of the conspirators were executed at the " Hacienda Maria Massacre ".

Between April and October 1961, hundreds of executions took place in response to the invasion.

Note the shape of the island, representing the Île de la Cité ( Island of the City ) in the Seine where the executions took place.

The top half of this photo shows the part of the island where the executions took place.

The story of the witchcraft accusations, trials and executions has captured the imagination of writers and artists in the centuries since the event took place, many of which interpretations have taken liberties with the facts of the historical episode in the name of literary and / or artistic license.

Hernando del Pulgar, Queen Isabella ’ s secretary, wrote that 2, 000 executions took place throughout the entirety of her reign which extended well beyond the death of Torquemada.

The boost in income provided by the German executions allowed Pierrepoint to leave the grocery business, and he and Anne took over a pub on Manchester Road, Hollinwood, between Oldham and Failsworth, named Help the Poor Struggler.

George, his father, the King's illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy and all other courtiers of rank were present at the monks ' brutal executions which took place on 4 May 1535.

The last executions in an overseas territory, and indeed the last on British soil, took place in Bermuda in 1977, when two men, Larry Tacklyn and Erskine Burrows, were hanged for the 1973 murder of the territory's then Governor Sir Richard Sharples.

After the State of California took sole control of the death penalty in 1891, executions were held at Folsom and at San Quentin State Prison.

Summary executions have taken place with the implicit approval of the government.

Although many nations have abolished capital punishment, over 60 % of the world's population live in countries where executions take place, such as the People's Republic of China, India, the United States of America and Indonesia, the four most-populous countries in the world, which continue to apply the death penalty ( although in India, Indonesia and in many US states it is rarely employed ).

Two contemporaries -- Thomas Brattle and Robert Calef — place him at executions ( see below ).

Kashubians who were suspected to support the Polish cause, particularly those with higher education, were arrested and executed, the main place of executions being Piaśnica ( Groß Plaßnitz ), where about 12, 000 were executed.

* 1922 – The first executions during the Irish Civil War take place when five Irish Republican Army members are sent to the firing squad by the Irish Free State.

The sufi platform was considered by exoteric dogmatic Muslims as a trojan horse ideology executing doctrine of deception ( see Taqiyya ) to convert others while others considered it outright heresy, blasphemy, innovation ( biddah ), kuffar, apostasy, haram and as such many sufis have gone under persuctions and executions for apostasy and trison charges at which point many tend to have supernatural events take place alike to Jesus crucification.

** The last two executions in The Netherlands take place.

The Roman historian Tacitus records that the city of Rome had a specific place for carrying out executions, situated outside the Esquiline Gate, and had a specific area reserved for the execution of slaves by crucifixion.

Markers were put in place for the 60th anniversary of the mass executions that were carried out at the Lagedi, Vaivara and Klooga ( Kalevi-Liiva ) camps in September 1944.

As Margaret was in Scotland at the time the battle had taken place, it was impossible that she issued the orders for their executions despite popular belief to the contrary.

Some authors claim that millions of witches were killed in Europe, while modern scholarly estimates place the total number of executions for witchcraft in the 300 year period of European witch-hunts far lower.

The Park, historically, was a place for executions, a Speakers ' Corner for public gatherings for political and religious purposes, and a place for entertainment and sporting events.

* 1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40, 000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.

Various studies have estimated the death toll at between 740, 000 and 3, 000, 000, most commonly between 1. 4 million and 2. 2 million, with perhaps half of those deaths being due to executions, and the rest from starvation and disease.

Several scholars put the number of executions at about 250, 000.

The executions continued until at least 24 April 303, when six individuals, including the bishop Anthimus, were decapitated.

Under war conditions and with national survival seemingly at stake, the Montagnard Jacobins under Maximilien Robespierre centralized denunciations, trials, and executions.

* 1972 – Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison.

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

( The production executive at Film studio Mosfilm, where Meadow was being made, was also replaced, but without further executions.

By contrast, torturous executions were typically public, and woodcuts of English prisoners being hanged, drawn and quartered show large crowds of spectators, as do paintings of Spanish auto-da-fé executions, in which heretics were burned at the stake.

Summary executions of Soviet POWs were also carried out at Buchenwald.

According to Howard K. Smith, who covered the executions for the International News Service, Rosenberg was the only condemned man, who when asked at the gallows if he had any last statement to make, replied with only one word: " No ".

When asked by his entry in the war diary that seemed to criticise the shootings at Bordeaux, Raeder stated that he was not protesting against the executions per se, but was instead protesting that the shootings had been done by the Kriegsmarine, arguing that the local naval commanders should have handed over the British POWs to the SD to be shot.

Other more gruesome methods of executions were also used, such as the wheel or burning at the stake.

After hearing reports of and witnessing massacres in Poland, Canaris on 12 September 1939 travelled to Hitler's headquarters train, at the time in Upper Silesia, to register his objection to the atrocities ; prior to reaching Hitler he encountered General Wilhelm Keitel whom he informed: " I have information that mass executions are being planned in Poland, and that members of the Polish nobility and the Roman Catholic bishops and priests have been singled out for extermination.

The insurrections at Viterbo in 1836, in various parts of the Legations in 1840, at Ravenna in 1843 and Rimini in 1845, were followed by wholesale executions and draconian sentences of hard labour and exile, but they did not bring the unrest within the Papal States under the control of the authorities.