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To: EternalVigilance
"Botched executions."

In addition to dealing with 'mother stabbers' and 'father rapers,' we need to bring our execution techniques up to speed for the eventual trials, convictions, and sentencing for treason, crimes against humanity, etc, of Traitorobama, leading Demonicrats, and the fifth-column leftist media.

Their public executions, following their trials and convictions, should not be done willy-nilly, or based on some flaring emotions of the moment.

Recognized, respected, and honorable professionals should be consulted. One such person, who left a detail account of techniques in his long career, was presented by Vanderbilt history professor Joel F. Harrington in his book, The Faithful Executioner (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013) - the story of Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634), who executed almost 400 people in various ways and flogged or disfigured many more during his 45-year career. Schmidt kept a diary with 621 entries about his executions and corporal punishments. Despite his professional duties, Schmidt was a sober, reliable family man and pious Christian, one who reluctantly but honorably pursued his vocation.

A brief summary of Schmidt's vocation (with some gory details!) is in Richard J. Evans's book review article, "Broken by the wheel - the diary of an executioner." A less gory, but still informative, discussion of the responsibilities of Frantz Schmidt, and how he carried out his job, is in an Interview with Prof. Joel F. Harrington.

25 posted on 11/29/2015 6:33:21 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Carl Vehse

I have actually read”The Faithful Executioner.”. It is a remarkably matter-of-fact account of a rather unusual vocation.


43 posted on 11/29/2015 7:20:57 PM PST by IronJack
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