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The subject, Nero, has been hanged for his crimes. His body has been donated to anatomists for public dissections. A crowd gathers as surgeons take him apart. The dominating figure above oversees the spectacle, his role as chief surgeon or high judge…

The opening pages of a book about notorious crimes of the 18th-century. The image on the left page depicts the Rebel Lord's being hung publicly on Tower Hill.

William Burke is depicted in his prison cell shacked to the floor by heavy iron chains . He is wearing a frock coat, cravat and trousers. He is standing with his hands clasped. The printed title is Burke, the Murderer!!, below this in italics 'Drawn…

A plaster mold of the head of William Burke after his public execution in 1829 for the "anatomy murders." Burke was named by his accomplices as the head of the body-snatching, black-market trade that supplied the Edinburgh's medical school with…

A contemporary print of the execution of William Burke.

Image of the gibbet cage of John Breads. Breads's body was placed in the metal cage after he had committed murder, in order to warn the public. Breads' body was the last to be held in the town gibbet.

This depicts a man being excited via lynching in the American West

A drawing of a women witnessing a public execution after the Murder Act of Great Britain was passed

William Burke was hanged at Edinburgh on Wednesday the 28th of January, 1829. He was charged for murdering Margery M'Conegal and afterwards selling her body to the Doctors. Burke made the following confession displayed on the execution notice.

This is an excerpt from the very end of the text, Oroonoko when the protagonist is executed ruthlessly but does not fail in his protest against slavery till his last breath.