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The executee wasn't anybody special in the way meant by Cicero, but perhaps his story shows that the idea of a "Snuff Triumph" was horribly durable.
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His pride would not allow him, however, to ask outright for something for which I alone had been responsible, so he wrote: 'Envoyez-moi une partition des trombones pour la marche triomphale et de la Basse - tuba telle qu'elle a ete executee sous ma direction a Dresde.'
My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848
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The authors contend that although the usual mixture used to execute–a combination of an anesthetic, an agent that paralyzes the muscles, and an agent that stops the heart–includes a drug that puts the condemned person to sleep before the other drugs do their job, that, due to lack of training on the part of the people administering the injection, the anesthetic is often given incorrectly or in too low a dose to render the executee unconscious.
Justice 1760 style | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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On trouve deja cette application proposee et meme executee dans un ouvrage publie en 1663, par le Marquis de Worcester, sous le titre bizarre, 'A Century of Inventions. '“]
Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890
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