Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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2:14 a.m. During Nürnberg's preliminary deliberations, the British had opposed hangings: their long experience in political executions (Essex, Sir Thomas More, Charles I, Robert Emmet, Nathan Hale) had taught them that posterity remembers the victim's dramatic last appearance better than the execution cause...
2:57 a.m. Woods and his assistants seemed to be getting impatient as they moved from one scaffold to the other, using a new rope for each man. At 2:26 it was Fritz Sauckel's turn. When summoned for his last walk, he had refused to dress, so...
After nine days and 42 witnesses, the case went last week to the twelve-man jury, which needed only an hour and 52 minutes to decide that the Crown's story was the correct one. The verdict : "Guilty." Ontario Supreme Court Justice F. H. Barlow pronounced sentence: ". . . solitary confinement...
The argument over the merits of Dr. Koussevitzky's programming and interpretation still rages, however. Since generalities are particularly dangerous when great musicians are involved, this reviewer can only say that he viewed the choice and execution of half the Sunday afternoon concert of the Orchestra in rather a dim...
But last week, as the condemned awaited the judgment's execution, their composure, and that of some of the nations which judged them, began to crack.