Show when coill laws laurs were gruel in all savage countries which have organized a mon monarchy arche of conal drable rable extent the office of public executioner i is one of the moat most important even 1 r some european states within less than a century ago surviving traces of this thin dignity were very recognizable cognisable re when the state executioner 0 of the duchy of bad had completed a certain number of hangings hannings hang ings decampi lations tat ions tons on tho the w heel burnings at th stake rac brackings kings thumb floggings etc he almaa received an degree of at doctor of medicine med icinia from tho the national alty sity award the end of the first quarter ot of the nineteenth century karl ludwig band was beheaded in heidelberg by doctor edemann Wt of that city for the assassination of kotzebue about a year before the resources of the more purely fiendish ingenuity sometimes displayed by homo howo sapiens would appear to have becu exhausted in the details of the execution of the weak armed and weak minded dami daml ens for a penknife scratch indicted inflicted on the surface of the worth less louis mills XV of prance france the right hand and boreo in of the culprit were roasted in a slow fire his alep h was nipped oft in pieces with red hot pincers pince rj boiling pitch r wax etc were poured into the so made and finally when tho the last remnants of vitality were obviously evanescing evanes cing hie his arms and legs vere were lashed to four wild horses whim were then vigorously whipped in different directions it ie to a very noteworthy anatomic fact that the attempt so made to have the wretched ret cLed torn to pieces proved an absolute failure BO so that tho the body of at the doorn doomed iLd man wah actually carved c the ecat ag fold by the executioners execution erol I 1 A comparatively frequent mode off oc execution tor for political and other aggravated Krava grava ted forme forms 0 at crime crimo in france wai war by breaking on the wheel tale this instrument had four spokes placed la fit the furm form of an X or st andrew andrews drogs 8 to which the arma arms and legs of the dx doomed man nian was wait h bound mind v opposite the middle of each arm foe arm leg and thigh was a hollow eight in alf air over each ot of these places the executioner smashed the limb with a stroke of a heavy iron bar ah ninth blow was administered known it as the coup de do grace jt was over the J pit of the stomach if it the culprit had been recommended for mercy this stroke ended alil hi sufferings Buffe rings it not it A wan was a mere more touch and the victim sometimes lingered in agony tor for houra hours the maiden 11 ung frau at nuremberg t berc is another st t the horrors of tho the history of criminal law A gigantic gigan tiT wood and anti iron doll of feminine out lines vertically on one sido side being hinged d the he the tha t interior was a cavity of nize lu re coave the human body prom from ta abe 9 movably side of this maiden doll a halt half dozen spikes of some S dix 1 or eoven seven inches in length the two uppermost were intended for the eyes there was ono one meant tor for the heart and the others for the principal abdominal viscera when a waa was legally prepared for the een son tence of ehg marden maiden his bis feet placed on the and anti the door wax was forcibly closed and bolted the jung frau fru was placed over a pit covered by a through tigh which his body J a aas dropped arter after of twenty t four hours in her embrace s |