German executioner's sword with engraving, 17th century AD (lemmy.world)

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[-] Imhotep@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

congrats on graduating beheading school, son ! we bought you a cool sword as a present

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Beheading school like:

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

One of my favorite stories about executioners is the French executioner Capeluche training the man who was assigned to kill HIM so he'd get it right. One clean chop - it would be terrible to have a botched execution where you linger in agony while some amateur hacks at your half-severed neck!

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