They Hankered After Hangings
A very curious circumstance took place in the kingdom of Denmark, relative to the infliction of capital punishment upon malefactors. They were attended from the -prison to the place of execution by priests, accompanied by a very numerous procession, singing psalms, etc.; etc.: which ended, a long discourse was addressed by the priest to the culprit, who was hanged as soon as he had heard it. This spectacle, and all the pious cares bestowed upon the criminals, so far seduced the imaginations of the common people, that many of them committed murder purposely to enjoy such inestimable advantages, and the government was positively obliged to make hanging dull as . well as deadly, before it: ceased to be an object of popular ambi-
| tion.
SYDNEY
SMITH.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 81, 10 January 1941, Page 12
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129They Hankered After Hangings New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 81, 10 January 1941, Page 12
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