said Father Dustin Feddon, a Catholic priest ...
I’ve repeated the true story of the last of the official executioners for the Vatican, which regularly executed criminals for hundreds of years. People used to see the executioner walking on the road and they quickly and enthusiastically rushed to gather dozens of townspeople because it meant it was an execution day. They watched the death of the criminals, sometimes by a bludgeoning mallet, other times various blades. There is a museum devoted to the execution devices and instruments he used and his life and times.