Alexei's death isn't even the tip of the iceberg for how botched the Romanov assassination was. The gunmen were each assigned one person to shoot, but everyone was so eager to be the one to kill the czar that they wasted all their bullets on him. All five children were still alive after the first round of shooting and they were locked in the smoke filled basement while their killers reloaded and waited for the smoke to clear. Worst of all, one of the daughters (probably Anastasia) regained consciousness while the bodies were being carried off. She screamed at the sight of her family's bodies and was finally shot in the head and killed. The whole thing took so long that the sun was starting to come up as the bodies were finally carried away.
The tragic part was that czar Nicholas never seemed that enthusiastic about being czar and always seemed to put his family before his throne. Ultimately his throne would mean the death of his family.
As a veterinarian, we’ve been humanely euthanizing animals for decades, actually centuries. There is no secret that an intravenous barbiturate overdose will basically cause the patient to calmly close their eyes and permanently fall asleep. The process can be expedited in anxious patients by sedating them prior to the injection. The problems with executions in the modern US are political rather than medical. Many medical associations refuse to attend or even offer advice toward death penalty methodology. The profession most capable of humanely dispatching criminals refuses to participate in such activities because they are ironically sworn to preserve human life, go figure.
From the perspective of the medical profession, having anything to do with executions would contradict the 'do no harm' ideal. Many doctors are in favour of euthanasia, I assume vets view it in a similar way, because in their opinion that is reducing the suffering of the person/animal who is unwell and has no hope of recovery. Though it could also be argued that making executions more humane/less likely to be botched is also reducing suffering of the condemned. Perhaps the issue is more with the legal system and the fact that there are far too many innocent people who are executed? Then again, even aiding the executions of the innocent is still reducing the suffering... It's an interesting point that I hadn't really considered before.
So I studied Animal Technology and during the Euthanasia topic we have to use both cervical dislocation (mice) and Lethabarb. On our campus we also had horses one of which had to be euthanized due to a bad eye that had failed to be saved. This ment that it was a liability for students and euthanasia was the decision. This however gave us students a opportunity to learn from it's death and also rasp it's teeth, try out AI and a bunch of other stuff we wouldn't be able to do on a live or conscious horse. However we were in suburbia and the use of firearms prohibited so Lethabarb was the choice. Once the horse was in very heavily ketamine state and we were being told to step a few paces back as in a rare occasions the horse does not just collapse down, it can fall sideways etc Well the horse basically did some kind of buck or something as it sprung it's height into the air, flipped and landed on its back, cracked the concrete in the process and barely had any gasps or twitching. It definitely was not the ideal reaction Infront of students. But something I'll never forget, It definitely didn't die in vain as everyone in that class had learnt things we never would have. Even if it was less than ideal.
It is very sad so many people died - even the loyal entourage that aided the Romanov's. Even Anastasia's King Charles spaniel Jimmy was killed. Alexei's dog Joy was not killed though and he lived out his last days in England. When the Bolsheviks were disposing of the bodies, they mistakenly buried Maria (or possibly Anastasia) with Alexei believing the body to be that of Anna (the maid) separating the bodies into two different sites was done in the hopes of causing confusion if the main grave was found - the number of bodies not being enough they thought it would lead who ever found them to never knowing that it was the remains of the missing Romanov family and their entourage that they had uncovered. Also, the Bolsheviks were very inept through out the whole ordeal... possibly another reason for Alexei and Maria being buried away from the other was because the grave site was so shallow. They had a lot of issues with many of the men being intoxicated and the trucks getting stuck in the mud and exhausted men refusing to take orders... They possibly put Alexei and Maria where they did as they were running out of time and just so inept. Edit - I found the story of the Romanov's and their fate (including their entourage) fascinating and so shocking and sad - I found learning about it so captivating as a kid. I used to think about the grand duchesses and thinking about being in their positions as a young girl... Unimaginable how terrifying that must have been for them all. I found it so interesting.
@@valx7586 yeah but George and Nicholas were ostensibly on the same side and it was George, not his government, who refused to give Nicholas and his family refuge.
When you said "the bullets didn't hit her heart at all" I really expected to hear you say "because she didn't have one." Especially after hearing the details of her crime.
apparently, she never wanted the child to die, her co-conspirators killed the child and she kidnapped him, if I read correctly she bonded with the child.
Agreed I grew up in Columbia County and wash all of the drugs start coming in and ruining my hometown and unfortunately it's spreading all around the state
I don't think Fawkes's friends and love ones would agree that his execution was botched. He was lucky to avoid a death of slow torture to top off the several days of torture he'd already endured.
@@borismuller86 I still remember as a kid in assembly, them saying the second signature was because he was nervous and thinking "no, it was because he was tortured, wasn't it". Obviously the fact I was 8 at the time probably explains why they didn't explicitly tell an Primary School assembly that. Although they still taught us the Tudors and Stuarts at 8, which seems a bit early, looking back, even though I absolutely adored it at the time and went on to focus on that period in history (plus medieval) at University.
Anyone who has ever worked in confined spaces knows the dangers of asphyxiation, and that no symptoms will be noticed other than you suddenly just pass out and never wake up. So the botch free, completely painless solution is a similar oxygen deprivation like those encountered in confined spaces. Break out the original old Gas Chambers. Execution simply requires you replace the atmosphere in the chamber with pure nitrogen. Since nitrogen is not toxic and makes up 80% of the air we breath it would go completely unnoticed by the condemned that anything changed except perhaps sounds of venting gasses in and out of the chamber. Once all the air has been displaced by nitrogen its simply a matter of waiting around 60 minutes to assure the end of life functions. It would be 100% painless and about as failure and idiot proof as the process could be made. For anyone wondering, our bodies to not notice a lack of oxygen to breath, but rather the buildup of CO2 in our blood that gives us the feeling of needing to breath. In a pure nitrogen environment our bodies can still exchange out CO2 just fine. This is what makes oxygen deprived confined spaces so dangerous, because you wont notice anything wrong. This goes back to why miners used to take caged birds into mines.
Tell that to the guy in Alabama who’s execution with nitrogen was botched just a couple months ago… ETA: I hadn’t gotten to the part in the video where this was proposed. Wasn’t quite as seamless as hypothesized!!
I remember one story about Judge Roy Bean, of Langtry, TX. A young man came into town, generally causing trouble and was caught stealing. He was sentenced to hang and dragged out to the “gallows”- in this case, the swing arm that was used to load and unload train cars. One end of the rope was tied around his neck and the other to a horse. The horse was spooked and the young man was dragged up. Then the rope broke. He literally hit the ground running and was gone before anyone could stop him. It helped that everyone who would have been in the posse was busy laughing.
I find that among these botched executions one particularly horrible is missing: on March 2nd, 1974, an anarchist known as Heinz Chez (supposedly a Pole, it seems he was in fact some German called George Welzel) was executed in Tarragona via garrote vil and the executor, totally unfamiliar with the method (it was his first execution), fell into the common misconception that the device killed by screwing it into the cerebellum (it doesn't, you put a piece of wood on top of the screw to rest the neck on it and, once you tighten the screw, another piece called the corbatín basically smashes the throat, making the condemned faint and killing in seconds unless there's a very high difference in strength between executor and condemned in favour of the latter), so the guy suffered for 25 long minutes while the screw dug into his skull until someone realized the mistake, a piece of scrap wood was placed at the end of the screw and it was then when he could die.
I hate everything about our species. I don't care if AI rises to be some kind of horrible, cold intelligence that wipes us all out. It's still a better option for the universe.
12:21 Donny Osmond is also situs inversus. It almost killed him because he was suffering from appendisitis, but went undiagnosed because the doctors couldn't figure what was wrong with him because his appendix wasn't where it was suppose to be.
I used to be an X-ray tech. We did a chest X-ray on a woman and it looked backwards. The crew all looked at it wondering what was wrong with the equipment,etc. She said her heart is on the wrong side. We were all like wtf? First time we’d every actually seen it.
Turns out humans aren't as easy to kill as they show in the movies, where a vague poke with a knife in the general area of the torso causes people to keel over instantly.
all these modern executions confuse me with how complex and expensive they are, like, a 9mil is like 25 cents at most, and if they committed a crime worthy of the death penalty, then they dont really deserve any more recognition than the half hour it'll take to clean up the mess
The actual reason for that not happening is because, shockingly, normal people don't want to kill other people. One of the reasons firing squads are often given dummy rounds so they can at least assume "I didn't kill him it was someone else". Now I know you want to believe "I'd have no problem doing it to murders" but the fact is one day you will indeed put a 9mm into the head of an innocent person and you will have to live with that for the rest of your life.
@@Mimi-cq4bgit doesn't if you believe it's done for the right reasons. Many countries now have euthanasia (by Drs) for the terminally ill, and vets euthanize animals all the time. It does make you think more if it's a healthy animal than one who is suffering, and it's not the only task I would want to do in a job.
You are comparing end of suffering of human or animal probably on the verge of dying with "we decided that you don't deserve to live" on healthy person (presumably they weren't in vegetative state since they killed someone, or what you have to do to be legally killed in these wierd countries, which didn't realised that we aren't in medieval times anymore). It's not matter how the executioner spins it in his head. They are killing *healthy* people with probably years of life ahead. No wonders, that doctors don't want to have nothing to do with it. They don't play on god.
While those involved are not known to history, you neglected to mention what is certainly the most significant instance botched executions in history: those two whose survival set off the Nika revolt in Constantinople in 532. Several hooligans belonging to the Blue and Green _demes_ (a cross between chariot-racing fans, hooligan gangs, and political parties) were to be executed by hanging, but the ropes on two of them - one Blue and one Green - broke, and a mob managed to spirit them away to a church and claimed sanctuary. When the next races were held, both _demes_ began demanding their pardoning, before becoming violent and demanding Emperor Justinian's abdication. The violence spilled out into the city, and the rioting lasted five days.
I'm surprised that the execution of Edith Thompson in 1923 wasn't included. By accounts she was so distraught about going to the gallows that she was sedated, to the point where she could no longer stand. She had to be hanged in a deck chair. Incidentally, the only reason she was hanged in the first place is she foolishly was allowed to testify at her lovers murder trial and was implicated in her husband's death. If she would have kept her mouth shut she would have been fine.
I'm surprised that executions are still a thing in the USA, or anywhere in the world, what the fuck is wrong with those third world people. I don't care how cruel the "crime" was, there's no way that life in prison is better then a scientifically engineered quick death. "how long do you have left? idk like science says between 30-180 seconds of oxygen deprivation, you may lose consciousness and they say you experience euphoria so I might get really hard wink wink nudge nudge :)" vs "how long do you have left? idk my grandfather lived to 106. how old are you? I'm 30..."
Apparently it's possible that Guy Fawkes didn't actually jump from the gallows but, weakened by the torture, actually fell off due to difficulty in remainjng upright. Regardless of what you may think of him- terrorist? Martyr? Revolionary? Whatever your opinion one can't help but admire his resilience, enduring the rack without immediately giving up his co-conspirators is just incredible.
It's also wild that Guy Fawkes and James I actually met. When you consider all the people, like for example Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, who never did.
Funny (and sad) how the failure of crappy execution methods were chalked up to "divine intervention" and they just let the criminal go on that basis alone. Better than admitting your equipment is shit so you can avoid being out of a job or worse.
Thats because we assume (encouraged by the persons insistence that they DO) that professionals KNOW what they are doing! So when a professional cant do it after 3 tries, we dont assume you are inept (because you insisted you KNEW what you were doing), we assume that person wasnt meant to die.
@@Other_People you do know that the video even said that the person had gone bonkers. Even back then laws were moving to that being one of many reasons for life under watch either on parole or in the madhouses. And these days we have the formal option of therapy and reform. Restarting your life even back then was the original reason for penance-tentary. not you know: deathmarks by a mad lunatic crowd.
Alexi's, some say assassination, I say straight up cold-blooded child murder, he was a child who was innocent of all that was going on around him, it's very upsetting to just imagine how many other children suffered a similar fate through history... I can imagine what the boy must have felt in his last moments, having his parents and sisters dead around him, knowing he was going to be next as the scary men continued to attack him, it's so sad!
@@lilxtra6211Oh yeah don't worry i know I've studied some of the worst crimes against humanity, for example Stalin's Russia, which was consistently ignored by other countries and in modern education, they basically turned a blind eye to the evil's of Stalin to deal with the evil's of Hitler and his slaughteres. Anyway, besides that i was talking about Alexi as an individual, a child who was taken out for reasons he'd never be able to understand , when people talk about mass murder, it's easy to think of people as just numbers, i was highlighting his situation, as the sole survivor of the slaughter of his family for just minutes before he'd joined them and how is a child meant to comprehend that situation... Tragedy is tragedy at the end of the day, has their arguably been worst murders in history? Of course, but it doesn't make Alexi's and the manner of which he died any less cruel
Had to put down my cat a few months ago. From injection to death was no more than a few seconds and from all appearance a quick and painless process. US law doesn't allow for any improvement/changes to the cocktail thats currently used, but there are definitely better options out there.
They could just use fentanyl, it's fifty times stronger than black tar heroin and an intentionally administered od of it will kill the condemned in mere hundredths of a second.
Sorry about your cat😢 There are very efficient drugs on the market, but Novo, Pfizer and all other manufacturing companies have prevented sale to any and all states using them for executions thus leaving them to try their own chemestry set to produce something useful...With very very little success from all the botched ones apparantly..
As for the Ginggaew Lorsoungnersn execution, there are more details about the case in the Book "The last executioner" by Chavoret Jaruboon. The execution was even more brutal than described by Simon. Chavoret Jaruboon was the last executioner in Thailand who used a firearm to execute prisoners.
Was she a twin? I’ve heard of this condition in identical twins, with one twin being referred to as a mirror twin where everything is anatomically reversed.
Because they don't want to "waste" proper sedatives and painkillers on prisoners, I assume. If you can put down a horse with sedatives, then you can do it to a human. It's the lack of will, and proper medical staff
"Primum, non nocere." "First of all, do no harm," forms part of the Hippocratic oath sworn by doctors and adhered to by medical people in general. It's why they don't do executions, and why so many lethal injections have been botched. A majority of pharmaceutical companies also refuse to supply drugs for judicial killing, which is why less effective alternatives are used.
@@handpaper6871 CVD19 vaxx anyone? how much more proof do we need that they harm? Sweden pulled all its vaxxs. johnson & johnson was pulled in the US, and we are learning the others werent better! i dont think Leftists care about oaths or honor.
the euthanasia serum used in veterinarian medicine is always given after a sedative is given because the euthanasia serum is painful upon injection. The process for humans is similar but uses an i.v. with fluids ,whereas in veterinarian medicine, it's usually just given i.v with no other fluids or directly to the heart
Back in the old West days in New Mexico territory there was a bandit called Black Jack Ketchum. His favorite weapon was a rifle. He said that the only thing a pistol was good for was throwing at a man. One day he was robbing a stagecoach and told the driver to throw down his pistol. Which he did, right at Black Jack's head, knocking him cold. Black Jack was sentenced to hang but, appeals and other things too time and I guess they had a lot of food handy because Black Jack ate a lot and grew quite fat. When they finally got around to hanging him, the hangman miscalculated the length of rope and when they dropped him through the door the sudden stop ripped his head off his body.
I never thought I'd hear that name outside my family according to my grandmother and great grandmother we were related to him somehow like cousins or something or other like that I'm not real sure but I'd never heard that name anywhere else till now
The problem with executions, is that all of the changes that have been made, were for the benefit of the executors, not the criminals - despite what the press releases have claimed. Hanging, gas chambers, and lethal injection are insanely more inhumane than firing squad or beheading (via guillotine or something more foolproof than a human executioner). That being said, the latter two are unsavoury to the general public, despite being more humane for the condemned. It's like most things in life; the simplest option is often the best option.
I tend not to care about how humane something is when it comes to murderers of today. Today they have more rights and many chances to prove innocence. I think the humane thing to do for the victims is to kill them the same way they killed.
Take a look at the painting ‘The Execution Of Lady Jane Grey’, and note the axeman’s knife tucked into his belt. This is for hacking off any remaining bits of sinew.
Here's one you probably haven't thought about.......When you get your head chopped off......Does it hurt when it hits the floor? In theory, it would, as the nerves between your head and brain are still intact! For a decapitation to be relatively painless, you'd need a pillow for your head to land on, and safety glasses so you don't get dust in your eyes!.......Bloody health and safety....
@@EarthIsNotFlat The death penalty is more costly to taxpayers than life in prison is. And the death penalty does not deter crime. Revenge culture has to be stopped.
@@kenirainseeker539 That’s okay, it’s just fiat money going to support some lawyers and paralegals living their lives… I’d rather spend the tax money on that in order to get those convicted of the most heinous crimes what they deserve while still protecting their due process rights, even if it’s costs more, rather than simply handing them a standard of living that’s better than that of most humans who have ever lived. Plus we could certainly streamline the capital case appeals process significantly. Revenge is like half of what criminal justice is all about, it’s the state imposing systematized codified punishment rather than the victims and their families taking it themselves, so there’s no problem whatsoever with such outright punishment being a huge part of the process. To make the criminal justice system all about rehabilitation only (and not about punishment) would be a huge violation of the original contract in which individuals delegated their authority to the state.
I can't remember the details, but one that fits this video is a man in Florida who was electricuted three times and survived every one. After that, he was ordered released due to cruel and unusual punishment.
Bring back the guillotine and public executions for several reasons. 1. Public because if you support the death penalty you should be able to stomach it. Also drives the point home to other criminals. 2. With modern technology, we could make an awesome guillotine. Failure rates would be low 3. You could set up a Pachinko machine under it and place bets on where the head will land.
Some people wonder why others have a fascination with gore and gory details. Its ingrained in us. Humans are awful. Always were, always will be. Brutal executes still take place around the world on a regular basis.
I agree there's such a thing as morbid curiosity. The comments of sympathy and how wonderfullly sensitive the narrator is on true crime videos make me nauseous because they're so dishonest. Just look at the numbers, two guys get in a bar fight and one guy got killed. Zero views. Two guys kidnap and torture a high school girl over the period of a month then dump her dismembered body in a well. One million views on the first day.
@@surfside75 I dont mean the people fascinated by it are awful. I mean as long as awful people do awful things, people will have their fascinations. In some ways the world needs those people that are fascinated. The world isnt that much different today than in this video as far as torture and killing, sadly. People just dont see it because while high in frequency it's isolated. But you can see these things on the open web. As much as Simon has read and been repulsed by, I guarantee I have seen far worse.
@@pakde8002 That's more about youtube algorithms than anything else. There are so many true crime channels and a lot of them just copy each other. The ones getting the big views are likely established and likely anything they present will get the views.
There were a lot of botched executions of POWs in Japan during WW2. Far from the worst that happened at camps, but beheadings with swords (beheadings are really hard, and a sword doesn't have much added weight to it like an axe, so it is even more of a mess and takes more swings, generally), shootings with arrows that took a bunch to kill the person, though I'm not sure if it was on purpose or not, and of course, experiments were used as a form of execution (and experimemts always have a huge margin of error). I did a project on it in 8th grade, so I read a lot of detailed transcripts and first and second hand reports. Why I was allowed, I am not quite sure. I have also heard that people who have gotten lethal injection who were long term intravenous users have needed to find a vein themselves, or have offered to, but it was many years ago, so I do not remember how reliable the source was.
@@laura7865 - No. the ‘Pressing to death’ execution method was used where a defendant refused to enter a plea for a capital crime and was subsequently found guilty, nothing to do with sexuality (unless you can provide more information to back up your statement of course, or are you just trolling?)
Heres Simon, once again talking about murder, death, and the shadier sides of humanity... The Casual Criminalist, The Decoder of the Unkown, The Delver unto Darkness, and the... Side Projector??
In French, the method of execution that was applied to Robert-François Damiens is called « écartèlement à quatre chevaux ». I guess we could translate this by « teared apart by four horses ». This was the method reserved for the most horrible crimes and regicides. The convict was tied to a sort of table in the middle, to be sure the body would stay there while the horses get away with the members. They added acid and cut the links between members to help the process. There was a variant of this only used for torture (not exectution) where the 4 horses were replaced by big reels slowly pulling apart the convict. In this case, there usually wasn't any acid or cutting the links between members. In this case, it's said that the guy could be stretched by 4 to 6 inches before dying from asphyxia or cardiac arrest. (sorry, I hope my English isn't too crappy)
Maybe I zoned out, but I'm surprised the first electrocution wasn't in here. It was..... rough. If you've ever seen or read The Green Mile, that's what Delacroix's death was based on.
Delacroix‘s death was because of a dry sponge… William Kemmler‘s death was so rough because well they had no idea exactly how much amperage and voltage it would take. That’s why his went the way it did. They also did not realize that it takes more than two done.
@@SarafinaSummers yeah, they had zero idea what they were actually doing. They just knew that electricity would be deadly eventually. Topsy the Elephant's death turned out pretty awful as well. Edison did some cool stuff, but he also was responsible for a lot of horrifying shit, too.
Simon! How, oh how, did you miss Wenceslao Moguel -- El Fusilado. This man was a soldier under Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution. He was captured in 1915 and got the firing squad. He was shot in the body 8-9 times and received a point-blank coup de grâce to the head. He survived all of it and simply played dead until his executioners departed. He got medical attention and lived until 1976. How BAD ASS do you have to be to survive a firing squad!?
I could be wrong but my understanding here (at least in the states) is that death warrants are time sensitive. When issued they state who is to be executed and a time that its' valid for (say for this videos example, November 22nd by midnight). Because of the stay and appeal beforehand then the botched execution... Well it expired before the prisoner died which would mean he couldn't legally be killed.
@@jaldren1385 That’s so bizarre. I mean, when are death warrants issued? People sit on death row for years. Some states put a moratorium on executions, but don’t commute the sentence or abolish the death penalty.
I was just in Edinburgh 2 weeks ago. We were on a 3 country vacation to Edinburgh, London and Paris. My family's favorite part of the entire vacation was the tour of "Mary Kings Close!" It is so crazy how bad life was during that time period. Standing in the rooms where so much death has occurred is a very strange feeling. I had never heard the details of the plague until this tour. If anyone reading this ever gets a chance to go on that tour, I would highly recommend it! Im definitely going to do it again someday. Even my 11 year old daughter thought it was awesome! She's being a plague doctor for Halloween now she likes it so much! She even told me she liked it more than Disneyland Paris! Having said all of this, when you said "finally" before the second to last story, I couldn't believe Mary's botched execution wasn't on your list! Everything you just said is exactly the same as they told us on the tour.
oh did the towers are surreal! Life in scotland during englands dark ages like you said, would put any amount, umm upetty gang violence to shame, and with complete ease. Then there's the towers and prisons that, somehow, were worse.
Well, the Plantagenets, Tudors, and the Stuarts were a blood thirsty family! They were either sending members of their family to imprisonment or have them sent to the Tower where they died, either by "natural" (cough cough), means, or were beheaded. The Plantagenets: Henry VI - Murdered, his son, Prince Edward - Died in Battle, his army against his cousin, King Edward IVs army. K. E/IV's father was murdered in the Wars of the Roses. George, Duke of Clarence, K.EIV's brother betrayed him and was allegedly drowned in a vat of Malmsey Wine. George's son died at the Tower after being imprisoned there. His daughter was MARGARET POLE, as mentioned in this video. K.EIV's two sons, King Edward V, and his brother Richard were the Princes in the Tower. As were several of K.EV's maternal uncles, when his paternal uncle Richard became regent for him as he was only 12, and he took the throne for himself. MARGARET POLE was the first cousin, to the Princes and their sister was Elizabeth of York, mother of Margret Tudor, (who married James IV of Scotland, and was Grandmother to MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, mentioned in the vid), Henry VIII, (two beheaded wives, and Jane Seymour, who gave him his long awaited son, Edward VI. Her brothers, Edward and Thomas, were also beheaded in their nephew's rein), and Mary Tudor, Dutchess of Suffolk, who's great-granddaughter was Queen Lady Jane Grey, also beheaded, along with her husband. Elizabeth I's mother, Anne Boleyn, wife number 2, of Henry VIII, was beheaded, and her cousin, Katherine Howard, who was also wife number 5 of Henry's was also beheaded. Elizabeth, I had her cousin MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, beheaded, although the chances were that had William Cecil had not hated MQoS, then the chances were quite high that Elizabeth could very well have forgiven her, and recanted the order. But seeing an opportunity to be rid of her, Cecil, decided to act practically immediately to carry out Elizabeth's warrant that she'd signed in anger and haste. A few days later, Elizabeth did change her mind, only to be told by Cecil that it was too late, it was done. As you can imagine, Elizabeth, being her father's daughter and having his temper, too. She was Not a happy bunny with Cecil! But when she died childless, Elizabeth named MQoS son James VI&I of Scotland and England her heir. And it was his son, Charles I that was beheaded by the Government, and his, Charles I's illegitimate grandson, JAMES SCOTT, DUKE of MONMOUTH, was also brutality beheaded, on the orders of his uncle, King James II. When executioner Jack Ketch failed to behead him cleanly, taking between 5-8 blowes of the axe, reportedly, he then had to use his knife to cut through the sinew of his neck! So, just because you were related to the monach by blood or marriage, it did not mean you were immune to either things you did, things you didn't, or things others said you did. Many other relations were also bumped off, some brutality. It's little wonder with knowing how badly a beheading can go wrong, that Anne Boleyn asked Henry for a last favour from her husband, a swordsman from France to take her head, rather than risk the axeman. Luckily, for her, that day Henry was obviously in a good mood. He agreed, and one was sent for, and she didn't suffer. Unlike many others who suffered the block or noose.
The guy who invented the lethal injection even admitted he knows that the prisoner wakes up at the moment the breathing paralysis drug kicks in meaning they suffocate painfully whilst conscious. He said he doesn't care and they should suffer with a smirk.
@@AifDaimon Then stop overcrowding the prisons with people on non-violent drug offenses and nonsense impossible parole violations. The death penalty is a proven failure. It's more expensive than life in prison, can't be taken back if the person is later proven innocent, (which has happened many times) and does not work to deter crime. Some criminals even kill themselves to avoid going to prison, so I can't imagine how the death penalty would deter them at all. There's literally no point or benefit to having it. It just exists to make people feel better temporarily after having gotten revenge on the perp. That's it.
@@AifDaimonYour comment is illogical in so many different ways, that I started three different answers before realizing my lifetime is too precious to engage in nonsensical youtube arguments.
My ex wife had three photos of her great grandfather that moved from central Mexico to Kansas city, KS to work on the railroad. All three of the photos he was wearing something around his neck. Her grandma told me that he wore that to hide his scars from the hanging he survived.
It's a matter of knot placement, the person's weight, and the drop height. Too little height for the weight and they strangle instead of a clean break; too much...
His entire respiratory system and body was already in a stage of " rest " working only on perhaps the minimum of organs and temperature needed to still be alive and if the executioner held him on the rope, thus depraiving him of air and "life " he was already semi unconcious and thus they believed him dead, cut him down and when the fever broke and his respiratory system kickstarted again sort of speak...
@@annemettefrederiksen7751 I can see him being out of it sparing him from realizing what was going on and trying to fight it, but a fever would raise his metabolism and heart rate.
With Kenneth Eugene Smith the method of execution should be called nitrogen _anoxia_ not hypoxia. Hypoxia is very low levels of oxygen in the blood and tissues but the person may not expire. _Anoxia_ , on the other hand is the _absence_ of oxygen in the tissues, which would eventually and with 100% confidence prove fatal.
@@danielriley7380 congratulations, you won the "I heard that one before, so I need to be a dick, for no reason, to the person who didn't say something original to me" award... your prize is a 7 day cruise along the coast of Somalia.
The Mary Queen of Scotts story made me think of all the nursery rhymes that had historic origins. I did a quick search to see if Grand Mastermind Simon had ever covered a whole list of them, and came back with just a few single incidents. So, I think that would make a great video. 10 Nursery rhymes historic origins. Or, you could split it into 2 videos to "Make more money!! Ehhhhh?!" Lol Bless your capitalist heart!
Am I the only one bothered by the use of "executors" in place of "executioners"? The first carries out a will and testament, the second executes people...
Wrong date for Louis XVI's execution: 20 September 1792 saw the abolition of the monarchy. The king was later put on trial and guillotined on 21 January 1793
The guillotine had a 100 percent chance of death. Studies from the french revolution (directly) state that an angled sharp blade descending thus striking a neck will 100 percent decapitate ones head from a human. It has been proven to be economical, easy to maintain, easy to make, and with modern elements can and will do the job the first time and only the first time.
I used to make a joke that I’d spend all night on RU-vid starting with cute cat videos and unexplainedly falling down a rabbit hole of videos like ‘when executions go wrong’. And here I am!
The story about Mary Queen of Scots was interesting. Supposedly my family are descendants of hers. I'm not exactly sure how, but its generally accepted that at some point one of her relatives made their way to the United States back in the 18th or 19th century. I'm not sure I believe it but that's the story.
You missed a good one - the Ohio botched execution of Christopher Newton - another case of the convict being so fat they couldn't get the needle in a vein, and at one point, he had to be good a "potty break" in the middle of his execution, probably the only time something like this has ever happened.
Eye for an eye and so on. I shot him, so now I get shot. I burned him, so now I get burned. I beat him to death, so now I get beaten to death. ... Nah, don't think you can sell this in most countries. Not enough people will buy it.
For those cheering on brutal executions, remember that many times it took décades for the appeals to pass before that execution. I simply do not believe a Human being is the same person at 20 as they are at 50
7:50 "Legally already dead, the authorities were in a bit of a bind." This is a rare mismatched sentence from Simon's world. Usually the writing is good. This kind of problem with the subject changing between clauses is more common with Coffeehouse Crime or the many ill-written shows about alpine disasters. One of my recent favorites of this: "Bear attacks former teacher while jogging in park." You know what's intended, but it sounds like the bear was jogging in the park and attacked its former teacher.
Sorry Simon *13:22 Henry VIII never converted to Protestantism. He died a Catholic, even instructing choristers to sing Chantry for him whilst his soul was in (Catholic) purgatory. Nonetheless, great episode as ever.
He considered himself an English Catholic because he didn't respect the authority of the "Bishop of Rome". Catherine Parr was nearly executed due to her reformation ideologies but she managed to talk him out of it so she was never arrested. If he had converted to Protestantism, then he never would have signed that arrest warrant.
When Francois Damien was read the long list of the tortures he'd be inflicted before the eventual execution, he simply nodded his head and uttered calmly: "This will be a hard day."
