Amazing Stories of Female Executions

The Law, in its wisdom, did not differentiate between men and

women when it came to passing sentence of death on those found

guilty of capital offences, and so in these pages you will read

how, in some countries, many women were first tortured on

the rack, in the boots, by the bridle, the water torture or the

thumbscrews. They were whipped and exposed to public

humiliation in the pillory; they died by the rope, axe, and sword;

by the electric chair, the gas chamber, the firing squad; by being

pressed beneath heavy weights or boiled to death, by lethal

injection or burned at the stake; by being drowned, or beheaded

by the guillotine or Scottish Maiden. Nor, afterwards, were they

all given a decent burial; some were dissected, others skinned to

provide bizarre souvenirs
 
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