The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the ScaffoldSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2004. ápr. 3. - 240 oldal A morbidly fascinating mixture of bungled executions, strange last requests, and classic final one-liners from medieval times to the present day. |
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... court officials and the juries, would have been totally redundant. Admittedly some of them, Thrift, Sanson, Schmidt and the like, tried to dispatch their victims in a humane manner, but the very presence of the almost invariably hostile ...
... courts; indeed, some called it 'the most severe and cruell paine in the whole worlde.' Whichever variety of this device was used, the victim, even if not subsequently executed, was invariably crippled for life. In the sixteenth and ...
... Court, Henry VIII was 'inwardly abhorrying all such abhomynable offences, the sayde poysoning be adjudged high treason.' So he was condemned to be 'boyled to death without havynge any advautage of his clergie.' An alternative method was ...
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The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold Geoffrey Abbott Korlátozott előnézet - 2004 |
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