On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:50:56 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com>
wrote:
>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.
They say the third time is the charm.
darkshadows
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