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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... sheriff, the word derived from 'shire-reeve', he being the chief officer of the Crown of each county or shire. That official however, in order to avoid having to do the distasteful job personally, subcontracted it out to anyone who ...
... — to conceal their contorted features from the vast crowd of spectators — the victims were allowed to fall a mere three or four feet, thereby dying a slow, lingering death by strangulation, watched by the sheriff and other.
... sheriff and other officials who sat in the comfortable seats arranged at one side of the scaffold. In England this inhumane 'short drop' method remained unaltered until late in the nineteenth century, when executioner William Manivood ...
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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 |