Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian justice has a flair for getting people to admit most anything. It got Sensualist Koch to admit shooting at least three victims at each mass execution as an example to his men, asphyxiating 30 people in a gas chamber, sending 2,500 to Maidanek (knowing it was a death...
Shaky Grounds. State's case was good on paper, but Nixon was objecting to a gap between plan and execution. Four years of efforts to destroy German interests in Latin America have not been notably successful (best results in Brazil and Mexico; worst in Argentina). No one has yet...
When he was ready, John Amery shook hands with a young woman believed to be Una Wing, his actress wife, and with his brother Julian, a captain in a parachute regiment. Later the prison chaplain came into the cell, but Amery had nothing to say to him. He walked alone...
The first Nazi general to be executed for war crimes fell before a U.S. firing squad in Aversa, Italy last week. General Anton Dostler was shot because he had ordered the execution of 15 American soldiers who were captured behind German lines in March 1944 while trying to blow up...
"There is no mercy for ... those who are considered traitors. . . . Today I passed a small-fry traitor being led down the street on the end of a rope. He was on his way to the execution grounds. . . ."