The analysis and explanation given in the first chapters make it a fascinating read, without them it would be a little gruesome and could not be appreciated.

If screwed up during an execution, you could be the next head on the chopping block; as exacting swift and precise justice was just as important and carrying out the deed at all. But I still can't deny I very much enjoyed reading this book, and all the gruesome crimes committed inside it that felt straight from a fantasy story. Görgla von Sunberg said they had committed a great sin and that he would take the infants to a priest to be baptized, but Phila said he would himself be priest and baptize them, so he took them by the legs and dashed them to the ground. The diary entries alternate between terse single lines, “A thief hanged” and long passages giving tantalizing details of the crimes for which people were punished. The diary itself is really a detailed list of the executions and punishments Master Franz dealt with during his service.Various accounts report, "that guards had to tie her to a small wooden chair before drawing the noose around her neck", and that "she was hanged in a bosun's chair".

We aim to get back to enquiries with an initial response within a fortnight, however this is dependant on our volunteer archive team.An unusual and fascinating classic of crime and punishment, A Hangman's Diary is more than a history lesson; it shows the true anarchy that inhabited our world only a few hundred years ago. But it still puts what was perceived as high crime worthy of 16th Century capital punishment into perspective. Starting the profession at age eighteen (under the supervision of his father), he performed more than 350 executions during his forty-five years of service.

Anna Strölin of Grefenberg, a murderess, who with premeditation murdered and slew her own child, a boy of six years of age, with a chopper. Whether this was due to his experiences at the Thompson hanging is open to dispute, especially since he performed 11 more executions (among which was one of another woman) before he withdrew. Ulrich Gerstenacker, of Class-berg, who drove out with his brother to the wood and slew and murdered him with premeditation, giving out afterwards that the sledge with the wood had fallen on him and killed him—brought in here from Betzenstein and beheaded with the sword, then exposed upon the wheel.This was the obituary in which learning and high-minded pursuits went on while this story of criminal justice could have been t into effect on anybody unlucky enough to have acquired a bad reputation, although some of the crimes were absolutely appalling too. The woman Dörfflerin, when she brought forth her child in the garden behind the Fort, left it lying alive in the snow so that it froze to death. The first half is a historical background on execution and torture in medieval Nuremberg and it dispels myths and legends about the era. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.