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A rapier (/ ˈ r eɪ p i ər /) is a type of sword originally used in Spain (known as espada ropera-' dress sword ') and Italy (known as spada da lato a striscia). [1] [2] [3] The name designates a sword with a straight, slender and sharply pointed two-edged long blade wielded in one hand. [4]
The sultan, Mehmed the Conqueror, is said to have cut off the head of Erizzo's daughter by his own hands, because she would not yield to his desires. [45] 1473 the arsonist at Gallipoli. In 1473, a Sicilian called Anthony, is said to have managed set fire to the sultan's ships at the Sanjak of Gelibolu, Gallipoli.
The executioner uses a sword to remove the condemned person's head from his or her body at the neck with a single strike. [80] After the convicted person is pronounced dead, a police official announces the crimes committed by the beheaded alleged criminal and the process is complete. The official might announce the same before the actual execution.
According to these parameters, removing a whole hand would constitute dismemberment, while removing or damaging a finger would be mutilation; decapitation of a full head would be dismemberment, while removing or damaging a part of the face would be mutilation; and removing a whole torso would be dismemberment, while removing or damaging a ...
Alabama inmate Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas on Feb. 6, 2025 for the robbery, rape and murder of Pauline Brown in 1991.
A vagrant with 19 busts under his belt allegedly stabbed a 15-year-old boy with a corkscrew in an unprovoked Brooklyn subway attack — but the judge cut him loose without bail, The Post has learned.
They suggested that dismemberment involves "the entire removal, by any means, of a large section of the body of a living or dead person, specifically, the head (also termed decapitation), arms, hands, torso, pelvic area, legs, or feet". Mutilation, by contrast, involves "the removal or irreparable disfigurement, by any means, of some smaller ...
In it, a man can be seen hurling his fist at an unidentified person’s face. They then collapse to the ground near what appears to be another person lying on the ground, struggling. The man then ...