What I know about public execution...

Public execution was funny in the tudor times. People would go to watch execution for entertainment and they even took their children. Children were only allowed to watch executions until 9:00pm.

The executioner is the name given to the person who executes criminals. There were male and female executioners. They wore a hood over there head to protect their identities. During the tudor times there were over 70,000 people executed.

A Guillotine

There were lots of different ways to execute people like beheading, stocks, hanging, ducking and stoning. There were various weapons used to behead people for example: an axe, sword, wire, knife, or a guillotine.

The Gallows

People were executed for a number of different crimes like poisoning people, not wearing a hat on a Sunday, stealing, and rubbish throwing. Before getting punished they would go to jail and if it was a really serious crimes they would go to the tower of London and get executed straight away; sometimes without a trial.


It was very hard for some executioners to execute someone and it was always the same person who does the executing.

An executioners axe

Sometimes the king even watched the public executions.

One Queen, Lady Jane Grey, was beheaded at the age of 16.

The Ganges River Dolphin

The South Asian river dolphin is a freshwater dolphin found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan which is split into two subspecies, the Ganges river dolphin and Indus river dolphin.

The Ganges river dolphin is found in the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers and their tributaries in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, while the Indus river dolphin is found in the Indus River in Pakistan.

 The Ganges river dolphin has been recognized by the government of India as its National Aquatic Animal.

The Ganges Dolphin Compared to a Man

10 Dolphin Facts

1. They grow to 2.5 meters long 

2. They can weigh up to 90kg
3. They live with their mum until they are a year old

4. They feed on small fish and crustaceans
5. They like to live on floodplains
6. There are about 4 to 6000 dolphins left
7. Their natural habitat on and around the floodplains is being destroyed by human pollution
8. A lot of dolphins die in fishermans nets when hunting for fish
9. The dolphins are still hunted for meat and oil to use in medicines
10. The dolphin is important as it is an accurate measure of the health the river

The river Ganges where the dolphin lives is 1557 miles long, it starts in the Himalaya  mountains and empties into the Bay of Bengal.

The Ganges river is the sacred river for Hindus.

The Ganges river is one of the most polluted rivers in the world.