Indeed, as a number of historians have convincingly revealed, abortion features prominently in the retelling of some of Britain's most infamous twentieth-century murder trials and executions, including those of Edith Thompson (executed, alongside her lover Frederick Bywaters, for the murder of her husband in 1923) and Ruth Ellis (hanged in 1955 for the murder of her lover David Blakely).
He narrowly manages to avoid execution and has the rebels who were to be executed alongside him freed, an uncharacteristically humane act for a character usually portrayed as a liar, a bully and a scoundrel.
Until then, children had been tried, sentenced, imprisoned and sometimes executed alongside adults.
Serge Atlaoui, 51, was due to be executed alongside eight other drug offenders two months ago, but won a temporary reprieve after Paris stepped up pressure.
This article was amended on 29 April to clarify the six inmates executed alongside Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan were not part of the Bali Nine group.
The shock reprieve for a woman due to be executed alongside Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan last night was too last-minute for newspapers in the Philippines to catch up.
His latest, The Conspirator, tells the story of the trial of Mary Surratt Robin Wrightt), a Washington DC boarding house owner ultimately executed alongside several men of her acquaintance who were involved in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
A few of the more vivid characters, specifically religious extremists who believe that America should be a Christian nation and that abortion providers should be executed alongside homosexuals, adulterers and blasphemers, are, well, something else.
Shooting Nicholas Hytner's film version of "The Crucible," she managed to get through her own hanging, being executed alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, but froze in a courtroom scene when her character, Martha Corey, was called on to laugh at foolish teenage girls.
The men are scheduled to be executed alongside citizens from countries including France, Brazil, Ghana and Nigeria.
Luke tells of two violent revolutionaries executed alongside Jesus.
