(Billy Crystal, as Mad Max in The Princess Bride)
Posted on 12/14/2021 5:55:12 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1650, 22-year-old Anne Greene was hanged for infanticide.
A maidservant, she had been seduced by her master’s teenage grandson and became pregnant. Anne stated stated she had no idea she was pregnant until the baby suddenly fell out of her while she was “in the house of office” — that is, the outhouse. But when the body was found she was arrested for murder.
Medical evidence supported Anne’s claim that the baby was stillborn. It was premature, born at only 17 weeks gestation, and only nine inches long, and the midwife said she “did not believe that it ever had life.” Nevertheless, Anne was convicted of murder and condemned to death.
After Anne was hanged, she dangled for half an hour while her friends pulled down on her body and thumped on her chest with a musket butt, trying to hasten her death. After half an hour she was cut down, put in a coffin and carted off to the anatomist, Dr. William Petty.
The good Dr. Petty soon realized she wasn’t quite dead....
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Very interesting! And there is actually a website about executions? Who’d of thunk?
So she lived. Wow!
It's a wonder THAT didn't kill her!................
Agreed. I didn’t know I needed “Executions Today” in my life. But I do now!
Interesting. Smart doctors.
If they were in the 21st Century, they may have prescribed Ivermectin and HCQ if saving lives was important to them — which it obviously was.
Some days it is hard to decide which story to post from among a number of interesting and informative ones.
(Billy Crystal, as Mad Max in The Princess Bride)
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