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• the homosexual content of the works of António Botto led Catholic students to call for the author's hanging?
• public hangings used to take place near the site of the Municipal Corporation Building, Mumbai (pictured), India?
• on 14 August 1936 Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, thus becoming the last person to be publicly executed in the United States?
• the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show (1956–1957) featured Virginia Gregg as Mary Surratt, the woman hanged for conspiracy stemming from the Lincoln assassination?
• the SS-physician Alfred Trzebinski, who was involved in the homicide of 20 children at the former school Bullenhuser Damm, was executed by hanging in 1946?
• the first three residents of the John Kane House were a man nearly hanged for treason, a Patriot turned British Loyalist, and George Washington?
• the western outlaw L.H. Musgrove "calmly puffed a cigar to its bitter butt" as he awaited hanging by vigilantes in Denver, Colorado, in 1868?
• in the 15th century, cutting down a Nebbiolo grapevine in the Piedmont region of La Morra was punishable by a heavy fine, hanging, or having your right hand cut off?
• in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, when Dorothy Talbye fell into despair with fits of violence in 1638, she was excommunicated from the church, bound and chained to a post, publicly whipped and finally, after murdering her daughter, hanged?
• John Martin Scripps was the first Briton in Singapore to be sentenced to death by hanging?
• Józef Kossakowski (pictured), bishop and writer, was one of several prominent Polish politicians sentenced to hanging as traitors in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising?
• George W. Barrett was the first person sentenced to death by hanging under a congressional act that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent?
• Konstantin Danzas (pictured) was arrested for his role as Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's second in his fatal duel with d'Anthès and sentenced to hanging?
• Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts?
• in 1582 Ursula Kemp confessed to using familiar spirits to kill her neighbours and was later hanged for witchcraft?
• Voina is a Russian art collective whose provocative works have included public group sex and staged hangings?
• Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters were simultaneously hanged in 1923 for the murder of Thompson's husband, even though Bywaters committed the crime on his own?

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