Six stories of the survivors of his own penalty

Usually, the surviving after the execution of the offender is not subjected to repeated procedures. Not for nothing that the key word in the sentence is "death", which means the inevitability of the onset of the inevitability of retribution and execution awarded penalties.

In the past, the fact that the perpetrators managed to stay alive after the execution of the death penalty was considered not only as the providence of God, that is considered a proof of innocence, sent from above. Here are six real stories about people who managed to survive in spite of the law, even if very briefly.

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1. A man Franks
One Australian newspaper posted in 1872. Note how the killer nicknamed "Man Franks" has experienced its own penalty because of the monstrous incompetence performers.

At first she stayed the execution for several hours as the scheduled time sheriff found it uncomfortable. During the waiting time has passed and the rain got wet rope prepared for execution, carried out to dry over the fire.

Because of this, the rope is no longer slip. Before you throw a noose around his neck convicted, the executioner had to stick your foot into the loop, and pull with all his strength to move firmly jammed knot. Then the would-be executioner tried to fix the noose around his neck Franks, but despite all efforts, it did not work to make it as tight as required by the rules.

In the end, out of Frank knocked support, but after three minutes of unsuccessful attempts to suffocate he began to twitch, asking for an end to the suffering and finally finish him. And since his hands were as "tightly" tied as the neck, then it was not difficult to catch up and slide the rope from the throat, cursing the organizers of punishment for their "hack". Finally, one of the employees cut the rope, and the long-suffering victim of justice with a thud met with a firm ground, since no one guessed it podstelit something soft.

Needless to say that after all seen no one wanted to get things done, and Franks softened the sentence, replacing it with imprisonment, and the executive power of the new monarchical apex Fiji became the subject of ridicule in the world.



2. Anna Green
In 1650, twenty-two Anne Green was a servant in the house of Sir Thomas Reed. She became pregnant by his grandson, but did not know what bears in her womb the child. After 18 weeks, when Anna was engaged in milling malt, she suddenly became ill. In the toilet she had a miscarriage. Terrified, she hid the corpse.

At that time there was a law that every single woman, hidden the pregnancy or the newborn is considered infanticide. Despite the fact that midwives fruit mothers was recognized stillborn, Green was sentenced to death by hanging in the courtyard of the Oxford Castle.

During the last words she asked to condemn "debauchery in a family in which she lived." She asked her friends to hang on her body to accelerate the demise, and they have not given up.

After the execution supposedly lifeless body was removed and taken to the dissecting room for training students. But when the coffin was opened, doctors discovered that the chest "corpse" makes subtle respiratory movements. They have forgotten their original purpose and began to perform CPR with the help of blood-letting, the stimulation of the respiratory reflexes and imposing warm warmers.

The public saw this as a sign from above, and Greene was pardoned. Taking with them a coffin as a souvenir, she moved to another town, got married and had a baby.



3. Polupoveshennaya Maggie
Maggie Dixon became pregnant while waiting for the return of her husband, a sailor that was not rosy situation for women in 1724. It is, of course, I tried to hide the pregnancy (concealment punishable by law), but it failed and she was sentenced to death by hanging.

After the execution of her family managed to take the body, without giving his butchers from medicine for preparation. While they accompanied Maggie's last journey to the cemetery, they heard a knock on the inside of the closed coffin. Resurrection Maggie was seen not only as the will of God. So she became a celebrity, and acquired the nickname "Polupoveshennaya Maggie." She lived for another 40 years and to this day not far from the place of its execution is a tavern, named in her honor.



4. Inetta de Balsham

For harboring thieves, she was sentenced to death in August 1264. Sources say that it hung at 9 am on Monday, August 16 and left to hang until the next morning. When the rope was cut, it turned out that she was still alive. Her windpipe deformed so that the unit could not fully restrict access of air. Miraculous rescue Inetty attracted the attention of King Henry III, who gave her a royal favor.



5. Romel Flores
Lethal injection was created as a humane, fast, painless, and guaranteed the means to deprive a person of life. However, Romel Flores proved that this is not true.

In 2009, Romel was convicted of kidnapping, rape, murder, and became the first criminal, survivors of executions by lethal injection.

Artists for two hours trying to find a suitable vein for the drip. Iskolov whole body Bruma, they did not find a vein, because of what the effect of the drug is not guaranteed. Eventually, he was sent back to the cell death sentence suspended for a week.

During this time, Romelu lawyers tried to prove that their ward had cruel and unusual for prisoners to appeal a failed execution. They were able to initiate a large-scale movement to change US law on the use of lethal injection, and Romel in this case, is the main witness, who can not be executed. Broome is still alive and is waiting for an amnesty.



6. Evan MacDonald

In 1752 Ewan Macdonald quarreled with Robert Parker and rassёk his throat, which is why the latter died. MacDonald was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by hanging on the wall in the English city Newcastle.

His "corpse" was sent to the same place, and the rest of the body otmuchilsya criminals - in dissecting the local health facility. At the time, doctors almost did not specifically hunted for these corpses, since they were the only practical "benefits", which could legitimately study human anatomy.

Perhaps that's why MacDonald was not destined to survive when the surgeon entered the convict was taken aback to see sitting on the operating table, he said, without thinking, I grabbed a hammer and completed a surgical operation executioner cutting criminal skull. They say that God's punishment has overtaken this doctor when he is mortally wounded his horse's hoof to the head.



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