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Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:50:56 GMT
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The total number of victims of the cannibalistic cave-dwelling Bean family
in Galloway, Scotland in the 15th century is not known, but may have run
into as high as 50 per year. Sawney Bean, head of the family, his wife, 8
sons, 6 daughters and 32 grand-children were taken by an army detachment to
Edinburgh and executed without process.
The last naval execution at the yard-arm was the hanging of Marine John
Daliger aboard H.M.S. Leven in the River Yangtze, China, on july 13th 1860.
Daliger had been found guilty of 2 attempted murders.
The last person to be publically guillotined in France was the murder Eugen
Weidmann, before a large crowd at Versailles, near Paris at 4.50 a.m. on 17
June 1939.
The last person guillotined in a French prison was was the Tunisian child
murderer Ali Benyanes, aged 34, at Marseilles in 1973. It was the 74 year-
executioners 364th successful execution. Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin
(1738-1812) died a natural death. He had advocated the use of the machine
designed by Dr. Antoine Louis in 1789 in the French constituent assembly.
The youngest person ever hanged was a boy aged 8 who had with malice and
cunning and revenge set fire to two barns and was hanged in Abingdon,
Oxfordshire in the 17th century.
In 1803 Joseph Samuels was reprieved in Australia after 3 unsuccessful
attempts to hang him after on each occasion the rope broke.
Mercury.
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