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This image shows a public execution on Tower hill

Locke's essay on the government and its role with the justice system in the 17th century. He talks about the law and how it relates to each and every individual. In the text, Locke's makes many comparison to biblical examples in the law and how God…

Painting of surgery on an executed body after the Great Britain murder act was passed.

This is a painting of a man being tortured/executed in what appears to be a public area.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A contemporary print of the execution of William Burke.