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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... pulled, axes and swords wavered off-aim and guillotine blades jammed. Even in more recent centuries, when executions took place behind prison walls and the executioners themselves were men of conscience and humanity, the scientific ...
... pulled the victim down the ladder, wrenching the arms up behind, causing severe pain and eventually dislocating the shoulder blades. To add to the torment, and further encourage a confession, lighted candles were sometimes applied to ...
... pulled up and secured to a stake. A long rope, tied about the ankles, was then wound around a vertically mounted windlass, the shaft of which, similar to other models, was pierced with holes so that the executioner's minions could ...
... around them and set alight. As the flames rose and the thick smoke billowed forth, the executioner would either speed their demise by removing the stool so that the ring strangled them, or choked them by pulling the chain.
... pulling the chain. Should the conflagration take too fierce a hold, he would be unable to get near, and it would be some hours before the fire abated, leaving a pile of charred and smouldering ashes. Some heretics were given the special ...
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The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold Geoffrey Abbott Korlátozott előnézet - 2004 |
The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold Geoffrey Abbott Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2002 |