Exeuctions in Ger-MANY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 163, 15 June 1883, Page 3

Exeuctions m GerMANY.

The recent execution m Berlin of the coachman, Conrad, for the brutal murder of his wife and four children, has led to the publication m the German newspapers of some interesting statistics relative to the infliction of the death penalty m Germany. Between 1864 and 1868 inclusive, of 218 persons condemed to decapitation, 26 were executed:; but between 1869 and 1878 although no less tlan 428 persons were condemned, none were executed ; and the executions were '■■ only resinned after the attempt of Ecedel, who perished on the, scaffold on ; August ; 16, 1878. This year Conrad is the second prisoner whose death sentence han Yen carried into effect. The -German executioner's name is Krauts, and he has four assis-, tarns, whose duty it is to divest the .victim of his outer clothing, - and to bind him with leather thongs to the block. Krauts deals the fatal blow with an axe, usually severing the head from the body at the first stroke ; and the remains of the prisoner are at once covered with black clothes, placed m a coffin, and borne away for immediate burial.