Places of Execution

a. Locations of state-organised judicial/quasi-judicial executions b. Operated over a period or on a number of occasions such as to achieve historical "notoriety" c. "Visitable"

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Places of Execution':

  • Auschwitz Birkenau Gas Chambers and "Execution yard"
  • Fortifications of Vauban Arras Citadel: 1941-44 to execute French resistance personnel and others; link
  • Himeji-jo Himeji-jo's Harakiri Mura, a place often used for ritual suicide/execution
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine Place de la Concorde was the location of the Parisian guillotine during the "Terror". Then called the Place de la Revoultion" - "the guillotine stood in the corner near the Hôtel Crillon where the statue of Brest can be found today" (Wiki).
  • Sukur "The traditional prison and the former execution site, neither of which is still in use, are partly ruined and in need of conservation and possible reconstruction." (Nomination file and AB)
  • Thingvellir "Drekkingarhylur – Drowning pool - Guilty women were put in sacks and drowned in Drekkingarhylur while men were beheaded or hanged..... This obnoxious practice remained in effect until 1838." ; link
  • Tower of London Common criminals were executed on Tower Hill outside the inscribed area but "famous" people were executed inside on Tower Green ; link