Tag: Deibler

A person’s tattoos usually have a strong, personal meaning, but in the early 1900s, tattoos often marked a person as a member of the criminal…

This original report, made by a reporter who witnessed the guillotine execution of Danvers, is the first mention I have found on the bloodiness and…

There is no denying that the guillotine made fast work of executions and that Deibler and his assistants made the executions run smoothly, with little…

Parties and celebrations often began before the execution of a criminal in France, but sometimes, especially when the criminal was a murderer, the parties went…