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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Captain Thomas Putnam reports from Copenhagen that Swedish regicide Anckarstrom was executed prior to May 8, suffering whipping, pillory, hand amputation, beheading, quartering, and remaining defiant, claiming he rid Sweden 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.
Anckarstrom, 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 in market places, exposure in pillory, right hand cut off, beheaded, quartered, and exposed at execution site.
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Anckarstrom, 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.