When she finished her prayers, executioner William Brunskill piled faggots of straw around the stake and lit them.

It is said that she voluntarily took on the massive karmic guilt the executioner generated for killing her, thus leaving him guiltless.

When an executioner was sent to strangle him at Yedikule, Constantinople, Osman II refused to give in and started fighting the man and was only subdued when he was hit on his back with the rear end of an axe by one of his imprisoners.

A combination of these stories is given by the French traveler Pouqueville, who writes that when the cord was thrown over his neck, Osman ' had the presence of mind to slip it with his hand, and knock down the principal executioner ; on which his grand vizier seized him by the most sensible part of his body, when Osman fainted with pain, and was strangled.

In the extreme case, a prisoner who is paranoid might feel certain in his knowledge that the executioner will arrive at noon on Monday, then certain that he will come on Tuesday and so forth, thus ensuring that every day he is not hanged really is a " surprise " to him, but that the day of his hanging he was indeed expecting to be hanged.

He then gave his forgiveness to the executioner and gave him what money he still had on his person, which was approximately ten pounds.

He told me it was that God had not suffered him to be no more the executioner of His enemies.

And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.

In late 1931, Lionel Mann, an assistant of five years ' experience, resigned when his employers informed him that his sideline was affecting his promotion prospects, and Pierrepoint received an official envelope inviting him to an interview at Manchester's Strangeways Prison ; his mother Mary, having seen many such envelopes in Henry's time as an executioner, was not happy at her son's career choice.

One of Te Kooti's main followers, who later became Te Kooti's main executioner, bound the man and threw him overboard.

The king had him beheaded, but when the executioner cut off his head, it is said that milk poured out instead of blood.

In " The Walk ", an executioner offers his victim a mod that will cause him to accept the killer's personal philosophy, and thus help him cope with his death.

So they gave me to the executioner, told him to strip me, shave me all over, and put me to the torture.

For his acting debut, Johnson was cast in the role of mute executioner Ilyn Payne, in both the first and second series of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, after the producers had seen him in Oil City Confidential.

Strickland, André's executioner, who was confined at the camp in Tappan as a dangerous Tory during André's trial, was granted liberty for accepting the duty of hangman and returned to his home in the Ramapo Valley or Smith's Clove, and nothing further of him is known.

Officers led by an official executioner burst into the Judson home, threw Judson to the ground in front of his wife, bound him with torture thongs, and dragged him off to the infamous, vermin-ridden death prison of Ava.

The executioner was usually presented with a warrant authorizing or ordering him to execute the sentence.

His execution was ordered six weeks later after the Queen mother and his executioner, Ali Khan Farash-bashi, had convinced the King that Amir Kabir would soon be granted immunity by the Russians – possibly allowing him to make an attempt to regain control of the government with force.

When the real Robot Santa appears and attacks the crew and the people attempting to execute Bender, the executioner exclaims " Get him, Jesus!

Couthon was guillotined on 10 Thermidor alongside Robespierre, although it took the executioner fifteen minutes ( amidst Couthon's screams of pain ) to arrange him on the board correctly due to his paralysis.

They had two children, one of whom, Eric, was present at Carrein's and Djandoubi's executions in order to prepare him for succession to chief executioner upon his father's eventual retirement.

In reparation of which, we condemn him to make honorable amend, in smock, head bare and a rope around his neck, holding in his hands a burning candle of two pounds before the principal door of the royal church ... of Saint-Wulfram, where he will be taken in a tumbrel by the executioner who will attach before and behind him a sign on which will be written, in large letters impious one ; and there, being on his knees, will confess his crimes ...; this done, will have the tongue cut out and will then be taken in the said tumbrel to the public marketplace of this city to have his head cut off on a scaffold ; his body and his head will then be thrown on a pyre to be destroyed, burnt, reduced to ashes and these thrown to the wind.

The executioner was usually a criminal who had to pass through a probation and regular training, being let off his own penalties in return for his services.

As the executioner brought the axe above his head, Clarke stopped the camera, had all of the actors freeze, and had the person playing Mary step off the set.

Owen reportedly was not convinced of his approaching death until the collar was ripped off his doublet by the executioner.

Deary argues that a story about a Tudor executioner who needs ten hacks to chop off someone's head, for example, can, however, afford to be comical as contemporary society is so far removed from the event.

The Queen's soldiers act as the arches ( or hoops ) on the croquet grounds, but have to leave off being arches every time the Queen has an executioner drag away the victim, so that, by the end of the game in the story, the only players that remain are the Queen herself, the King, and Alice.

Tradition holds that his final words were said to the executioner, " Torment me not long, strike off my head in one blow ".

When he was eventually caught, according to colonial governor David Collins he was " so indifferent about meeting death, that he declared in confinement that if he should be hanged he would create a laugh before he was turned off, by playing some trick upon the executioner.

In " Head ", he is head executioner for the Queen, a job that almost gets him killed when he executes a man two days early to get half the week off and then finds that the man's family had succeeded in having him pardoned.

Similarly, the Haarlem Beul, or city executioner, " freed " prisoners all over the country from Amsterdam to Ghent by chopping their heads off.

An executioner might as well manicure his nails before chopping off a head.

When Watson was prepared to be hanged, a lynch mob appeared and scared off the executioner.

An executioner might as well manicure his nails before chopping off a head ".

While Banda sat still, the executioner took his sword and slashed off his left foot, then both his arms.

Immediately after this, Algardi produced an interactive sculptural group representing the beheading of Saint Paul with two figures: a kneeling, resigned saint and the executioner poised to strike the sword-blow, for the church of San Paolo, Bologna.

He kills Piggy with a boulder that was no longer aimed to miss, and becomes the executioner and torturer of Jack's tribe.

Through the openings between the spokes, the executioner hit the victim with an iron hammer that could easily break the victim's bones.

And that the inhumanity of these men may the better appear, I ( Edmond Ludlow ) must not omit, that the executioner in an ugly dress, with a halter in his hand, was placed near the Major-General, and continued there during the whole time of his trial, which action I doubt whether it was ever equaled by the most barbarous nations.

It was considered to be a more honourable death if the executioner started with cutting the throat.

Bond's killer is to be SMERSH executioner Red Grant, a psychopath whose homicidal urges coincide with the full moon.

Having been taken to the place of execution in a cart with her hands firmly tied in front of her and wearing just a thin shift she was lifted over the executioner ’ s shoulder and carried up a ladder against the stake to be sat astride the saddle.

* The executioner stands on a stepped platform approximately high beside the condemned, and guides the head downward with his hand simultaneous to the efforts of his assistants.

The period began with the Santos became vice-champion São Paulo of 1980, and, interestingly, the executioner of this final Santos – São Paulo fan striker Serginho – is who would become the idol of the decade Santos.

In Reparation for which we have Condemned her to make honourable amends Disrobed, a Noose around her Neck, and carrying In her hands a flaming torch weighing two pounds before the main door and Entrance of the parish Church of This city where She will be taken And Led, by the executioner of the high Court, in a Tumbrel used for garbage, with an Inscription Front And Back, with the word, Incendiary, And there, bare-headed, And On her Knees, will declare that She maliciously set the fire And Caused the Said Burning, for which She repents And Asks Forgiveness from the Crown And Court, and this done, will have her fist Severed On a stake Erected in front of the Said Church.

") after the executioner had crushed his limbs with a sledgehammer or iron rod, followed by his ribs.

Prynne was pilloried on 30 June in company with Henry Burton and John Bastwick, and Prynne was handled barbarously by the executioner.

They come with an official executioner, put her to trial and sentence her to death.

Upon formation, The Mentors began to tour the Northwest, playing shows with their trademark executioner hoods and bawdy lyrics.

His garden was filled with works of art, particularly Greek sculpture, both originals and copies of “ old masters ”, and has thus been a rich archaeological source of ancient sculpture-the statue of the ' Scythian knife sharpener ' ( now thought to depict the executioner getting ready to flay Marsyas ) which the Medici removed to Florence, for example, was found in this garden.

Peace ate a hearty breakfast of bacon and awaited the coming of the executioner with calm.