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单词 Execution Dock
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Execution Dock

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Execution Dock

Hanging of a buccaneer at Execution Dock.
Wax figure of a pirate hanged at Execution Dock. Madame Tussauds, London
Rocque's map of 1746 showing location of Execution Dock Stairs at Wapping, London

Execution Dock was used for more than 400 years in London to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts. The "dock", which consisted of a scaffold for hanging, was located near the shoreline of the River Thames at Wapping. Its last executions were in 1830.

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