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A morbidly fascinating mixture of bungled executions ,strange last requests, and classic final one-liners from medieval times to the present day.
Sometimes it's hard to be an executioner, trying to keep someone from popping up to make a quip when they should have spectacularly sunk without a trace. Or to be told that the condemned to the guillotine won't have a last drink for fear of "completely losing his head." The business of death can be absurd, and nothing illustrates this better than these tales of the gruesome and frankly ridiculous ways in which a number of ill-fated unfortunates met (or failed to meet) their maker.
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History, humor, Executions and executionersShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold
2004, St. Martin's Press
in English
1466838140 9781466838147
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The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold
March 1, 2004, St. Martin's Press
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in English
0312325630 9780312325633
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"Among the tortures mentioned in this book, many chroniclers believe that the 'boots' ranked high among those available to the courts; indeed, some called it 'the most severe and cruell paine in the whole worlde.'"
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