Monsieur de Paris’s Orchid Buttonhole A profile of the next-to-last public execution of France, Louis Deibler.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 14, 2016
in Crime , Death , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , News , Social History , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged Anatole Deibler , Bastille Day , capital punishment , decapitation , execution , executioners , French executions , Guillotine , Louis Deibler , Monsieur de Paris , Monsieur de Paris's Orchid Buttonhole
Encore: Bring me the Head of Charles Julius Guiteau When Charles Julius Guiteau was hung for the assassination of President James A. Garfield, it was just the beginning of a macabre, post-mortem career for his head–or rather his deboned face embalmed and preserved in a vat of alcohol….
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Chris Woodyard
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August 8, 2015
in Body Snatching , Crime , Death , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Social History , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged assassination , Charles Guiteau , dime museums , E M Worth , embalmed head , Encore: Bring me the Head of Charles Julius Guiteau , execution , exposure of criminal heads , James A. Garfield , sideshow curiosities
When the state of Colorado decided to reinstitute capital punishment in 1901, a new and improved self-hanging gallows was their execution method of choice.
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Chris Woodyard
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May 12, 2015
in Crime , Death , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged capital punishment , Colorado , death penalty , execution , execution by hanging , gallows , hanging , John Porter , Louise Frost , lynching , murder
A monster scoop of a story on a phantom attacker.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 25, 2014
in Animal Tales , Cryptozoology , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Panics , Social History , Strange Lives
and tagged bigfoot , Charles Bertrand Lewis , cryptozoology , execution , hanging , journalist ethics , M Quad , monsters , phantom attackers , Robert Barr
Capital Improvements: Four New Methods of Execution Four unusual historical methods of execution.
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Chris Woodyard
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September 5, 2013
in Crime , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Capital Improvements: Four New Methods of Execution , crime and punishment , electric chair , execution , Hawai'i , Hawaiian death prayer , Siam , vacuum chamber
Bring Me the Head of Charles Julius Guiteau When Charles Julius Guiteau was hung for the assassination of President James A. Garfield, it was just the beginning of a macabre, post-mortem career for his head–or rather his deboned face embalmed and preserved in a vat of alcohol….
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Chris Woodyard
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March 23, 2013
in Body Snatching , Crime , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Strange Bodies , Victorian
and tagged assassination , Bring Me the Head of Charles Julius Guiteau , Charles Guiteau , dime museums , E M Worth , embalmed head , execution , exposure of criminals , James A. Garfield , stuffed head
