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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... victim was laid on his back on the ground beneath it, his wrists and ankles being tied by ropes to a windlass, or axle ... victim's joints while his companion transferred his pole to the next socket in the windlass. The stretching, the ...
... victim had to lie face-upwards on the ground; arms bound behind and wrists pulled up and secured to a stake. A long ... victim's limbs. This version not only dislocated hip and leg joints but also inflicted extra strain on the shoulder ...
... victim's nose. This procedure would continue, swelling the victim's stomach to grotesque proportions and causing unbearable agony, either until all the required information had been extracted, or until the water, by eventually entering ...
... victim's neck. Unlike hangings, executions by decapitation were comparatively rare events, the executioner thereby ... victim into a slightly different position, the executioner would need to readjust his point of aim for the next stroke ...
... victim's throat exactly where it was required, resting on the flat area between the two hollows. Blocks were usually about two feet high so that the victim could kneel, although the one provided for the execution of Charles I was a mere ...
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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 |