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It seemed that there was a past where every town and village would have an executioner or hangman. I did not know they were outcasts though, with a system for t
by Theodores 9y ago
It seemed that there was a past where every town and village would have an executioner or hangman. I did not know they were outcasts though, with a system for that.
The funniest is the American guy who did the Germans at Nuremberg, he blagged the job and probably botched it really, making those poor Germans have even more misery than afforded by a clean execution. He was not from any genuine background of family profession.
- georgecmu 9y agoI did not know they were outcasts though, with a system for that. Indeed, in La Reine Margot[0], one of the protagonists escapes the brodequin[1] by simply having shaken the executioner's hand in the past: Monsieur, dit Caboche, vous êtes le seul gentilhomme qui m'ait donné la main, et l'on a de la mémoire et un coeur, tout bourreau qu'on est, et peut- être même parce qu'on est bourreau. Vous verrez demain comme je ferai proprement ma besogne. His more socially selective friend was not so fortunate. [0] http://www.dumaspere.com/pages/bibliotheque/chapitre.php?lid=r38&cid=58 http://www.dumaspere.com/pages/bibliotheque/chapitre.php?lid... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodequin_(torture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodequin_(torture)
- snori74 9y agoPierrepoint travelled to a America at some point, (not sure whether this was pre, or post WWII) - and was very scathing of their systems in his autobiography. I don't know the numbers, but he certainly hanged a lot of "the Germans at Nuremberg".
- nasredin 9y agoEh? Poor choice of words? I know you meant well, but the wording just looks bad.