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“To Be Broken on the Wheel”


1714: Various rebel slaves in the Cape Colony | Executed Today

“Cupido” to be put on a cross, his right hand to be cut off, and with “Neptunus” to be broken on the wheel, and then to be left on a hurdle ...

Saint Catherine of Alexandria - Catholic Saint | Saint for a Minute

... to be broken on the wheel as a form of torture. However, when she touched the wheel, it shattered into pieces. Despite this miraculous event ...

The Terror of the Laws: Crime and Punishment - Resolve a DOI Name

... to be broken on the wheel. Just prior to the scheduled execution the emperor “commuted the sentence into the following punishment, namely: that the criminal ...

Adding Chariots? - Feedback - Funcom Forums

Instead of knocking out a potential thrall to be broken on the wheel of pain, rescue a thrall from a cage. a. An unbroken thrall would be ...

Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance - Constitution.org

Six of the judges persisted obstinate, resolved to sentence Jean Calas, his son, and Lavaisse, to be broken on the wheel, and his wife to be burned at the ...

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless - Tumblr

... to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? The Unabridged Journals of ...

The Z Blog on X: "They need to be broken on the wheel." / X

They need to be broken on the wheel. ... Someone get me the names of the specific department of energy employees who implemented the ban on ...

"Inventing Human Rights by Lynn Hunt" [2008] PrecedentAULA 109

... to be `broken on the wheel' after being to occur. Even great powers, despite the prohibition on convicted of the murder of his son. The young Calas had ...

Adams Papers Digital Edition - Massachusetts Historical Society

The Paris parlement took up the case in late October and ordered them instead to be broken on the wheel. Dupaty, the parlementary president at Bordeaux ...

The fourth Book of the Maccabees 5 (RSV) - Bible Society

3If any were not willing to eat defiling food, they were to be broken on the wheel and killed. 4And when many persons had been rounded up, one man, Elea'zar ...

4 Maccabees 5:3–18:24 (NRSV) - If any were not… - Biblia

If any were not willing to eat defiling food, they were to be broken on the wheel and killed. When many persons had been rounded up, one man,...

Saint Catherine of Alexandria - Ex Urbe

Maximian then ordered her to be broken on the wheel (not a very Roman choice, but whatever). The wheel broke when she touched it, so instead ...

4 Maccabees 5 - oremus Bible Browser

If any were not willing to eat defiling food, they were to be broken on the wheel and killed. 4When many people had been rounded up, one man, Eleazar by ...

Patron Saints of Lacemaking

... to be broken on the wheel (which shattered at her touch) and eventually beheaded. Because of her association with the wheel, she is the ...

Religion | History Today

A Test Case for Tolerance. Jean Calas was sentenced to be broken on the wheel in front of the cathedral in Toulouse, on 10 March 1762.

Top 10 Most Ruthless Real Life Punishments - WatchMojo

Peter Niers was a prolific serial killer in 16th century Germany. He was finally caught in 1581 and sentenced to be broken on the wheel after being convicted of ...

Martyrdom of St. Catherine - Te Papa's collections

She was condemned to be broken on the wheel, but it collapsed at God's command and a rain of fire killed many heathens. Here, this event is shown together ...

in the court rec ords of the dutch cabo de goede hoop, 1652–1795

The sen- tence in this case states that, in response to someone who tried to stop him,. Jephta said, “Even if I am to be broken on the wheel, I ...

Anecdote Gallery. - ProQuest

... to be broken on the wheel. The greater number were men of abandoned characters, who were proud of their depravity, and sold to the enemies of the state ...

Historical Events in May 1755 - On This Day

Louis Mandrin Sentenced. May 24 Smuggler Louis Mandrin considered the French Robin Hood is sentenced to be broken on the wheel, a medieval form of torture ...