1876: Louis Thomas, gallows builder — ExecutedToday.com
This musing on the torments for condemned prisoners of seeing their own rickety gallows put up in their own prison yard comes via Ken Leyton-Brown’s The Practice of Execution in Canada … and culminates with a Winnipeg execution that took place on April 28, 1876. In principle, hanging may be said to have begun when…
1876: Louis Thomas, gallows builder — ExecutedToday.com
Sharing because here’s some history I didn’t know, and for the Red Dwarf clip.