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A contemporary print of the execution of William Burke.

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

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

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…

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 depicts a man being excited via lynching in the American West

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.

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

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 image shows a public execution on Tower hill