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Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
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Captain Thomas Putnam reports from Copenhagen that the Swedish regicide Ankarström was executed by public whipping, pillory exposure, right hand amputation, beheading, quartering, and public display, while he boasted of ridding his country of a tyrant.
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Capt. Thomas Putnam, of the brig William and Henry, arrived yesterday from Copenhagen, which he left the 8th of May. Ankarström, the Swedish regicide, he informs, has been executed, pursuant to his sentence. He was publicly whipped three different times, in the market places—ignominiously exposed to view in the pillory—his right hand was cut off—and finally he was BEHEADED, quartered, and exposed at the common place of execution. To the last he gloried in the deed, by which, he said, he had rid his country of a tyrant.
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Sweden
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Prior To May 8
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executed by public whipping three times, exposure in pillory, right hand cut off, beheaded, quartered, and exposed at execution site.
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Ankarström, the Swedish regicide, was executed pursuant to his sentence. He was publicly whipped three different times in the market places, ignominiously exposed to view in the pillory, his right hand was cut off, and finally he was beheaded, quartered, and exposed at the common place of execution. To the last he gloried in the deed, by which he said he had rid his country of a tyrant.