Themed Set: Embarrassed Executioners
2 comments July 12th, 2008 Headsman
The human body can be a hardy creature, resistant to the best-calculated plans to kill it … and the ignominy of scaffold work has seen many an amateurish headsman trod the boards.
Between the two, we reap a cornucopia of botched executions that practically seem more normal than the “successful” ones.
A few data points to that effect in these next four executions over four different centuries: no mere miscalculated drop from the scaffold, but horrifically grim pratfalls to mock the solemnity of the proceedings and leave egg on the executioner’s face.
Still, if you think that’s bad, you should see the other guy.
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Tags: black comedy, death, horrible, incompetence, professionalism
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