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Mixtures containing both these drugs, as well as those containing extracts of mandrake and datura, which would have had similar effects, were administered to suspected witches prior to torture.

Having been taken to the place of execution in a cart with her hands firmly tied in front of her she was lifted over the executioner's shoulder and carried up a ladder against the stake to be sat astride the saddle.

He was then hanged from a gallows 50 ft 15 m high, but cut down before he could choke to death.

Day and night I was deeply troubled, but at last there came to me a new idea.

The last guillotining in France was that of torture-murderer Hamida Djandoubi on September 10, 1977.

Damiens made no attempt to escape, and was apprehended at once.