In the Syrian city of Raqqa on this date in 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reportedly crucified two men in a posthumous public gibbeting, after executing them by shooting. (There were seven executions in Raqqa that day.)
Raqqa was the Islamic State’s breakthrough conquest, and the city it claims as its caliphate’s capital — the “Bride of the Revolution.”
Horrific pictures of these crucifixions circulated worldwide thanks to the dissident group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently. Needless to say, what follows is Mature Content.
On this day..
- 1972: King Ntare V of Burundi
- 1947: Karel Čurda and Viliam Gerik, Czechoslovakia resistance betrayers
- 1774: Daniel Wilson
- 1836: Isaac Young/Heller, axman
- 2015: Eight drug smugglers in Indonesia
- 1862: Mary Timney, the last woman publicly hanged in Scotland
- 998: Crescentius the Younger
- 1945: Dachau Massacre
- 1951: Ospan Batyr, Kazakh freedom fighter
- 1968: Lin Zhao, martyr poet
- 1676: Anna Zippel, Brita Zippel and the body of Anna Mansdotter
- 1818: Alexander Arbuthnot and Richard Ambrister