10 of the Most Notorious #Executioners from #History
https://listverse.com/2023/05/23/10-of-the-most-notorious-executioners-from-history/

I’m ambivalent about the death penalty but dude how hard is it to find a vein? Struggled for hours? I’m calling BS, I know even I could find a vein to puncture.

More than a third of executions in 2022 were 'botched,'

Earlier this year, #Arizona #executioners struggled to insert an IV line into a man on death row, and had to be guided by the #prisonerhimself on how to do so. And in #Alabama, the #executionteam reportedly struggled for hours to find a vein.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1144188268/executions-2022-botched-lethal-injection

> ..to completely chase all the #Bandanese from the land.. as efficiently as possible.. a contingent of eighty Japanese mercenaries to his forces: they are #ronin, or #MasterlessSamurai. Not only are they cheaper and hardier than European #soldiers, they are also professional #swordsmen and highly skilled #executioners, experts in the arts of #decapitation and #dismemberment.
#AmitavGhosh in #NutmegsCurse on #Samurai #mercenaries for the #Dutch in #Indonesia's #BandaIslands #Amboyna