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primeidealThis feels like the kind of page that should be split into several different subpages, but still impressive as long as you don't try to take it in in one sitting.
"Before the arrival of Europeans, death sentences were carried out in Australia under Aboriginal customary law, either directly or through sorcery." Off to a strong start.
"Hanged for bestiality with a sow. Reece tried to cut his own throat on the morning of his execution."
"Riddell was an atheist, republican, radical, autodidact. He ran up the steps to the gallows, took snuff and said "I prefer death to living in chains and fetters in such a country as this"." Tag yourself.
"Aged seventeen, Tiernan objected to being interrupted in his prayers on the scaffold and wrestled the executioner over the edge of the platform."
"One of the children of this unfortunate man was carried on the shoulders of a spectator, to witness the dying struggles of his parent."
"The victim was well known in the district at the time; he was seventy years old, a convict who had been in the colony thirty years, "very deformed" and less than a metre tall."
"When the drop fell the convict's head was completely severed from the body. The executioner attributed this horrible result to the hard condition of the rope, caused by the frost"
"While waiting his doom, he formed an attachment to a young sparrow, which he tamed perfectly. He was greatly affected by the sight of the bird flitting about the scaffold while the preparations for his execution were in progress"
"Before the arrival of Europeans, death sentences were carried out in Australia under Aboriginal customary law, either directly or through sorcery." Off to a strong start.
"Hanged for bestiality with a sow. Reece tried to cut his own throat on the morning of his execution."
"Riddell was an atheist, republican, radical, autodidact. He ran up the steps to the gallows, took snuff and said "I prefer death to living in chains and fetters in such a country as this"." Tag yourself.
"Aged seventeen, Tiernan objected to being interrupted in his prayers on the scaffold and wrestled the executioner over the edge of the platform."
"One of the children of this unfortunate man was carried on the shoulders of a spectator, to witness the dying struggles of his parent."
"The victim was well known in the district at the time; he was seventy years old, a convict who had been in the colony thirty years, "very deformed" and less than a metre tall."
"When the drop fell the convict's head was completely severed from the body. The executioner attributed this horrible result to the hard condition of the rope, caused by the frost"
"While waiting his doom, he formed an attachment to a young sparrow, which he tamed perfectly. He was greatly affected by the sight of the bird flitting about the scaffold while the preparations for his execution were in progress"
