Usually, the criminal who survived after the execution is not subjected to a second procedure. It is not for nothing that the key word in the verdict is “death”, which means the inevitability of the onset of retribution and the inevitability of the execution of the sentence.

In the past, the very fact that the criminal managed to stay alive after the execution of capital punishment was considered nothing more than God's providence, that is, it was considered a proof of innocence sent from above. Below are six real stories about people who were able to stay alive contrary to the law, even if not for long.

Man Franks

This photo is from another execution, 1896. This guy, most likely, was much less fortunate than Franks. One of the Australian newspapers posted a note in 1872 about how the killer named "Man Franks" survived his own execution due to the monstrous incompetence of the performers.

At first, the execution itself was delayed by several hours, as the sheriff found the scheduled time inconvenient. During the waiting time it rained and the wet rope prepared for the execution was taken to dry over the fire.

Because of this, the rope stopped slipping. Before throwing a noose around the neck of the convict, the executioner had to stick his leg into the noose and pull with all his might to move the tightly stuck knot. Then the would-be executioner tried to fix the noose around Franks' neck, but, despite all his efforts, he did not manage to do it as tightly as required by the rules.

In the end, a support was knocked out from under Frank, but after three minutes of unsuccessfully trying to suffocate, he began to twitch, asking to end the suffering and finish him off at last. And since his hands were as “tightly” tied as his neck, it was not difficult for him to pull himself up and, moving the rope from his throat, scold the organizers of the execution for their “hack-work”. Finally, one of the servants cut the rope, and with a dull thud, the long-suffering victim of justice met with solid ground, since no one had thought to lay something soft on him.

Needless to say, after all that had been seen, no one wanted to finish the job, and Franks had his sentence commuted, replaced by imprisonment, and the executive power of the new monarchical elite of Fiji became the subject of ridicule all over the world.

Anna Green

In 1650, twenty-two-year-old Anna Green was a servant in the household of Sir Thomas Reed. She became pregnant from his grandson, but did not know that she was carrying a child in her womb. After 18 weeks, when Anna was grinding malt, she suddenly became ill. She had a miscarriage in the toilet. Terrified, the girl hid the corpse.

At that time, there was a law that any unmarried woman who concealed a pregnancy or a newborn was considered a child killer. Despite the fact that the midwives recognized the fetus as stillborn, Greene was sentenced to death by hanging in the courtyard of Oxford Castle.

During last word she asked to condemn "the debauchery in the family in which she lived." She asked her friends to hang on her body to hasten her death, and they did not refuse.

After the execution, the supposedly lifeless body was removed and taken to the anatomical theater for student training. But when the coffin was opened, the doctors discovered that rib cage The "corpse" makes barely noticeable respiratory movements. They forgot their original purpose and began resuscitation through bloodletting, stimulating respiratory reflexes, and applying warm heating pads.

The public saw this as a sign from above and Green was pardoned. Taking the coffin with her as a souvenir, she settled in another town, got married and had a child.

Half-Hung Maggie

Photo from the cover of Alison Butler's book The Hanging of Margaret Dixon.

Maggie Dixon became pregnant while waiting for the return of her sailor husband, which was not at all a rosy situation for a woman in 1724. She, of course, tried to hide the pregnancy (concealment was punishable by law), but she failed and she was sentenced to death by hanging.

After the execution, her family managed to take the body away without giving it to the medicine butchers for dissection. While they were seeing Maggie off on their last journey to the cemetery, they heard a knock from inside the closed coffin. The resurrection of Maggie was perceived only as the will of God. So she became a celebrity and acquired the nickname "Half-Hanged Maggie." She lived another 40 years and to this day, not far from the place of her execution, there is a tavern named after her.

Inetta de Balsham

For harboring thieves, she was sentenced to death in August 1264. Sources say she was hanged at 9 am on Monday 16 August and left to hang out until the next morning. When the rope was cut, it turned out that she was still alive. Her windpipe was deformed in such a way that the knot could not completely restrict the access of air. Inetta's miraculous rescue brought her to the attention of King Henry III, who bestowed royal favor on her.

Romel Broom

The lethal injection was created as a humane, quick, painless and guaranteed means to take a person's life. However, Romel Broom proved that this is not entirely true.

In 2009, Romel was convicted of kidnapping, rape, murder and became the first criminal to survive a lethal injection.

The performers spent two hours trying to find a suitable vein for the IV. After piercing Broom's entire body, they never found a vein, making the drug's effect unreliable. In the end, he was sent back to his cell with a week's reprieve from his death sentence.

During this time, Romel's lawyers began to prove that their ward experienced cruel and unusual treatment for prisoners during the unsuccessful execution. They managed to initiate a major movement aimed at changing the US law on the use of lethal injection, and Romel in this case is the main witness who cannot be executed. Broome is still alive and awaiting amnesty.

Evan McDonald

In 1752, Ewan MacDonald quarreled with Robert Parker and cut his throat, causing the latter to die. Macdonald was convicted of murder, sentenced to death by hanging on the city wall in the English city of Newcastle.

His "corpse" was sent to the same place as the bodies of the rest of the tortured criminals - to the anatomical theater of the local medical institution. In those days, doctors almost specifically hunted for such corpses, since they were the only practical “manuals” by which it was possible to legally study human anatomy.

This is probably why MacDonald was not destined to survive: when the surgeon who entered saw the dumbfounded convict sitting on the operating table, he, without thinking twice, grabbed a surgical hammer and completed the work of the executioner, breaking the criminal's skull. It is said that God's punishment overtook this doctor when his own horse mortally wounded him on the head with a hoof.

A fragment of a Brazilian anti-suicide poster. The Brazilian organization Centro de Valorização da Vida works to help people resist suicidal tendencies on their own.

10 September - World Suicide Prevention Day. More than 25 million people try to commit suicide every year. One in six dies. Most survive. What can survivors say to those who have suicidal thoughts? How can you help those who have attempted suicide?

Those who survived answer from the anti-suicidal site pobedish.ru, and a psychologist, director of the Christian psychological service "Candle" Alexandra Imasheva.

Second attempt... live or die?

A person who comes close to death experiences existential shock. This shock often clarifies new meanings of life for a person, and the failed suicide begins to understand that the difficulties due to which he made an attempt are actually solvable, and there are much more important things in life.

There is an opinion that all suicides, before their death, try to somehow escape - the gallows try to grope with their foot the thrown stool, rushing out of the window - to grab onto something. But this is not true for everyone. Many do not try and even resist attempts to save them. These are just those who are most likely to repeat a suicide attempt in the future. Even after they have looked into the face of death, they continue to experience hopelessness and heartache. Is it possible to help and support them, to try to avert a new suicide attempt? Can!

When a failed suicide comes to his senses in a hospital bed, the most important thing for him is that there is someone nearby who would understand him and sympathize with him. To have someone to listen to him. This is especially important for those who, after being saved, say “it would be better for me to die.” All suicides want to communicate their intention before committing suicide, and almost always either directly talk about what they are going to do, or indirectly try to bring it to the attention of loved ones (constantly talk about other people's suicides or on the topic of death, are fond of literature or films on this topic, perform symbolic actions - for example, say goodbye to friends, pay off debts handing out favorite things).

A failed suicide should not be alone. You have to talk to him. But there are approaches that are strictly taboo.

What not to do:

- To condemn and criticize for a suicide attempt. Remember: man made it from the strongest heartache and feelings of hopelessness, he found no other way out. Criticism will only increase these feelings.

— Play on guilt. You can’t play on guilt: how could you, you didn’t think about your neighbors, you thought only about yourself, you are an egoist. In no way can you be blamed. The feeling of guilt has never inspired anyone to live, but it has driven them into a noose more than once.

— Devalue the feelings and problems of the failed suicide. Parents of rescued teenagers often “sin” with this: they tell them that all your problems are not worth a damn. It seems to them that they are encouraging their child, but in fact, he only feels more acutely that no one understands him and no one is interested in his experiences. This will only reinforce the teenager in the idea that you need to try again.

— intimidate. There is no need to threaten a failed suicide with hell for his attempt, to paint the coming endless torment. He is already feeling bad, he needs support and kindness, not prosecutorial speeches. A reminder that suicide is a mortal sin is suitable for suicide prevention if it is known that the person is a believer. It really does hold a lot of people back. But after a suicide attempt, this cannot be done, otherwise the person will feel completely doomed, and if so, what is the point of living?

— Avoid talking about suicide. You can’t pretend that nothing happened, you can’t communicate with a failed suicide falsely cheerfully, as if you came to the hospital to a person who just had an operation to remove an appendicitis. The failed suicide again feels that they don’t want to talk about the most important thing with him. And he is forced to withdraw into himself and digest what happened inside himself, which can increase the feeling of hopelessness.

What do we have to do:

If a suicidal survivor wants to talk about what he did, you need to support him in this. We must express our understanding of what happened: I know you felt so bad, you saw no other way out. Often, suicides are drawn to talk about what happened to them, which is why they made their attempt. And this must be supported, asked why it was so bad, why it was so hard. Be sure to give the opportunity to pour out the soul and listen very carefully, in no case interrupting or distracting.

The main thing - express your warm feelings and love to him, to say that he is important and needed, that he is very dear to those who are next to him, to his family. Do not reproach, saying that he did not think about the feelings of his neighbors, but tell how much he is loved, how they are waiting for him at home, how bad it is for everyone without him.

Suggest discuss possible help: they say, there must be something that can help - let's talk about it. You can offer the help of a psychotherapist, and not just talk about it abstractly, but indicate your active help: I ​​will find a good doctor for you, I will bring him to you, he will definitely help. A suicide must feel that there are people who really care.

If the suicidal survivor still stubbornly stands his ground and claims that as soon as he is discharged from the hospital, he will immediately try again (or alludes to this, saying that he has nothing to live for) , there are several ways to try to prevent this:

First. Everything must be done to reduce the social isolation of this person. Often a suicide is socially isolated, there are no people around him with whom he has a truly close relationship. While he is in the hospital, you can try to become for him such a person with whom you can discuss tormenting issues, to whom you can tell everything as it is - and receive acceptance in response, and not condemnation or devaluation of problems. It is necessary to try to raise all his friends, all his relatives and friends to their feet so that he feels that there are a lot of people around him who are not indifferent to him.

Second. Find a good psychotherapist and persuade him to undergo a course of treatment with psychotherapy and antidepressants. If a person is so stubborn in his intentions, then it is quite possible that he has a real depression that requires serious treatment.

Third. Find out thoroughly what pushes a person to a new attempt. And if there is some real problem at the basis of this, then do the maximum to solve it, or at least show all your good will towards this. To say directly: I, your wife, your friend do not care that you want to die, we will be very sad. Let's at least for our sake try to somehow solve your problem together, look for other ways out. He needs to feel that there is a “support group” next to him.

Failed suicide at home

When an unsuccessful suicide is discharged from the hospital and returns home, then approximately the same rules should be followed in communicating with him.

There should be no "conspiracy of silence" around his suicide attempt. There is no need to specifically remind him of this, but if he talks about it himself, he will definitely listen to him and talk to him about it. And then in such cases they are very fond of diverting the conversation to the side, transferring it to something else or starting to gasp “oh, don’t talk about it, forget it as soon as possible, don’t remember it.” Necessary! A person has committed, perhaps, the most terrible act in his life, and it is very clear that he wants and needs to talk about it. Support him in this!

There is no need to arrange deliberate control: do not leave him alone, if he goes from one room to another, defiantly follow him. But you need to make sure that a person does not suffer from loneliness, and if he asks for your company, you need to drop everything and be with him.

It happens that a person specifically asks to be left alone. There is no need to resist this (“no, I will sit next to you!”), But there is no need to leave him alone for a long time. The best thing is to tell him something like “well, you sit alone in the room, and I’ll be nearby, in the kitchen, call me, if anything” or “I really want to be with you, if you don’t want, we won’t talk, Let's each do our own thing, just stay together.

He needs to feel that there is someone nearby and someone worries about him. No wonder suicides are most often committed late at night or early in the morning, when a person is most often alone and at the mercy of his thoughts. There should be a setting: I am there, I am always there when you need it, day and night, and I will always help you.

It is necessary to help a person find a reason for which and for which he could live. Not insisting, not imposing, but offering him different variants. In my practice, there was a case when a failed young suicide, who was tormented by the desire to try again, decided ... to make a site for help just like her. Although she herself was not yet sure that she would not commit suicide, she still began to create this site, select materials, and persuade others to stay alive. And this work eventually gave her the incentive to live. By helping others, she helped herself.

At-risk groups

Women attempt suicide four times more often than men. However, men's suicide attempts end in death four times more often than women's. This is due to the ways that men and women choose. Women are more likely to try to poison themselves and "miss" the dose, while men choose other, more deadly methods.

— Teenagers from 12 to 20 years old. The main cause of teenage suicides is poor coping skills and lack of life experience to solve problems. Conflicts at this age often seem unresolvable, and a sense of hopelessness, characteristic of suicide, quickly sets in. In addition, teenagers do not understand well what death is. They do not fully realize that death is the end of life, and vengeful dreams of “kill myself and see how they will regret that I died” can lead to suicide.

Adolescents often commit suicide attempts defiantly, and this is often a cry for help, for attention to be paid to them. Some do not want to really kill themselves, they want to scare everyone more.

— Elderly people after 60 years. If teenagers commit suicide from a lack of life experience, then older people feel longing and hopelessness due to the imminent end of life. Like, anyway, it's not far off, and you can speed it up. In addition, they often suffer from serious illnesses, which is also a risk factor. Many have spouses who die, leading to severe depression and suicidal thoughts and attempts.

— Men 20-35 years old. This is a less common group, but nevertheless, it can be distinguished. The main reason for suicides here is the inability to cope with the tasks that life throws up, it seems to a person that by this age something is already supposed to be achieved, but this is not there - that's depression, that's a suicide attempt.

— Lonely people. Flaw social support can drive a person to suicide. People who have no family, no friendly support, few social connections, cannot get support when they need it.

— Seriously ill. Suicide leaders in this area are HIV patients, cancer patients, and those suffering from depression. It should be noted that 60% of all suicides are committed in a state of depression. Suicidal thoughts are one of the symptoms of depression.

— Alcoholics and drug addicts. Alcoholics develop alcoholic depression, as a result of which they commit suicide. Drug addicts in the period between taking drugs feel the meaninglessness of life, this can also be superimposed by a “breakdown” due to the lack of a narcotic substance.

TOP 10 - People who survived the death penalty 1. Elizabeth Proctor, who was not lucky enough to pass for a witch. In 1692, a woman was arrested on charges of witchcraft. The court sentenced Elizabeth to death despite all the evidence of friends and relatives in defense of the accused. By the time the sentence was executed, the woman managed to give birth to a child in prison, as she got there already pregnant. The execution was appointed by hanging. They threw a noose around Elizabeth's neck and opened the hatch, but thanks to some miracle, the woman remained alive. 2. John Henry George Lee went to jail on charges of complicity in the murder of a woman - Emma Casey. For such a crime, criminals are hanged. So they hanged John ... More precisely, they tried to do it three times, but the man survived after all three drops into the hatch with a noose around his neck. 3. William Duell and four of his accomplices were hanged for having raped and killed a child in London. According to the rules of that time, all the corpses of criminals were given for medical research. When the turn came to dissect the body of William Duell, the student who was supposed to do the operation noticed that the man was breathing! 4. Zoleikhad Kadkhoda - an Eastern married woman who took the risk of having a lover. According to the harsh laws of the East, a woman convicted of adultery is sentenced to death - she must be stoned to death. This happens as follows: a woman is buried up to her waist in the ground and stones are thrown at her head. Zoleykhad did not escape her fate - she was stoned, but when the crippled body was brought to the morgue, it turned out that the woman was alive. 5. Vinselao Miguel, a prisoner during the Mexican Revolution. The prisoner was sentenced to death by firing squad. 9 shots were fired at Miguel, they all reached the target, but the man survived, managed to escape and lived for many more years. 6. John Smith is a robber. He was captured by the police after he robbed several banks and private houses. The court sentence that he was given was hanging, by dropping him into a hatch with a noose around his neck. Smith turned out to be incredibly tenacious and survived this death penalty, he lived for more than one year. ordinary life complete person. 7. Anna Green, conceived a child from her own employer. They say that it was she who seduced him. The child was born at the due date, but died shortly after birth. While trying to hide the little body, Anna was arrested and accused of killing a baby, and the court sentenced her to death by hanging. A woman with a noose around her neck was thrown down the stairs. At the funeral, when the coffin was opened, it turned out that the woman was still breathing, after which Anna was taken to the hospital. 8. Joseph Samuil, who committed a number of murders and robberies in 1801 as part of a whole gang. All participants in the crimes were sentenced to death. On the day when the execution began, Samuel managed to avoid death on the gallows three times - once the rope burst, and on the other it simply jumped off. This turn of events did not go unnoticed by the judges and Joseph Samuel was replaced by the death penalty with life imprisonment. 9. Maggie Dixon - a cohabitant of one innkeeper. From an illegal relationship a child was born, who died immediately after birth. Maggie Dixon couldn't think of anything better than dumping a baby's body into a river. But the body of the child was found and the woman was arrested on charges of murder. The verdict of the court was unequivocal - death. The woman was executed, they were going to bury, but on the way to the cemetery, there was a knock from the coffin - Maggie was alive! After the "resurrection" she lived for another forty years! 10. Willie Francis at 16 summer age killed the owner of the pharmacy. The young man confessed to the crime, but nevertheless was sentenced to death in the electric chair. The execution took place traditionally, the criminal screamed and writhed, but after the voltage was turned off, it turned out that the young man survived. However, the incident did not bring Willy a long and happy life - he was executed again, exactly one year later.

Interesting overview of history

1. Elizabeth Proctor
Elizabeth Proctor was unlucky, she was considered a witch and arrested in 1692. Despite the testimony of her friends, she was sentenced to death. Elizabeth was pregnant at the time, and she gave birth to a child while in prison. When they put a rope around her neck and opened the hatch of the scaffold, she fell into the hatch, but did not die.

2. John Henry George Lee
John Henry George Lee was arrested as an accessory to the murder of a woman named Emma Casey. John was sentenced to hang, he was thrown into a hatch three times with a rope around his neck, but he survived all three times.












3. William Duell

4. Zoleihad Kadhoda
Zoleyhad Kadhoda, a married woman, was arrested on charges of treason and an affair with a man. As is customary in the East, such a woman was sentenced to death by stoning. It looks like this, a man is buried up to his waist in the ground, and stones are thrown at his head. Zoleyhad was quickly stoned, but after she was taken to the morgue, she turned out to be alive. Vinselao Miguel was arrested during the revolution in Mexico. He was sentenced to death by firing squad. After 9 shots, Miguel managed to survive. He escaped and lived a long life.








5. Vincelao Miguel
Vincelao Miguel was arrested during the Mexican Revolution. He was sentenced to death by firing squad. After 9 shots, Miguel managed to survive. He escaped and lived a long life.








6. John Smith
John Smith was arrested after robbing several houses and banks. He was hanged by dropping with a rope through a hatch, but survived and lived a full life for some time.









7. Anna Green
Anna Green got pregnant by her employer, whom she is believed to have seduced. After the due date, she had a child, but the baby died immediately after birth. Anna tried to hide the body, and was charged with murder, for which she was sentenced to death. Anna Green was hanged, thrown down the stairs with a rope around her neck, but during the funeral her coffin was opened and found to be breathing, after which she was sent to the hospital.









8. Joseph Samuel
Joseph Samuel in 1801 committed several robberies and murders. He was part of a gang, all members of which were sentenced to death. On the day of execution, Joseph was hanged three times, and three times he managed to survive, first his rope broke, then the rope jumped off. Joseph Samuel was pardoned and sentenced to life imprisonment.








9. Maggie Dixon
Maggie Dixon cohabited with the innkeeper after her husband's death and gave birth to a child by him, who died shortly after giving birth. She threw the child's body into the river, but it was discovered and she was sentenced to death. After the execution, the coffin with her body was transferred to the cemetery, but there was a knock on the way. Maggie survived and lived for another 40 years.

10. Willie Francis
Willie Francis killed a pharmacy owner when he was 16 years old. He confessed and was sentenced to death in the electric chair. When he was executed in the electric chair, Willie Francis screamed and shuddered, but after the power outage, he remained alive. He was executed again exactly one year later.

This is hardly the worst thing - to hear your death sentence. This means the end, after these words the timer is started, and the count goes sometimes for days, and sometimes for hours. No one even thinks of surviving after being shot or hanged, or lethal injection. However, miracles do happen. Mathematical probability is sometimes very funny. There is always a tiny percentage that the condemned will live after the execution.

Today's collection is about such people. They were literally born wearing shirts. Or maybe they, like cats, were given not one life, but several, well, or at least two.

Maggie Dixon

In 1724, Maggie from Edinburgh accompanied her husband, a fisherman, on a long voyage. Then such events lasted for years. And, unfortunately for Maggie, she was not known for being faithful. The girl realized that she became pregnant while her husband was swimming. The situation is very bad.

Maggie gave birth to a baby in the woods, who either died immediately or died shortly after birth. She could not throw a small corpse into the river and wrapped it in her scarf. Soon the body was found, and Maggie was identified by the handkerchief as the killer mother. The only punishment for this was the death penalty by hanging. For some incredible reason, Maggie's vertebrae didn't break while she was hanging from the noose around her neck. However, everyone was sure that she was dead.

When the relatives took the girl’s corpse to the cemetery, they were horrified, as a knock was heard from the coffin. Maggie Dixon survived the death penalty. She has since been dubbed "Half-Hanged Maggie". Today there is even a pub in Edinburgh named after Maggie Dixon.

Shimon Srebrnik

In 1945, Shimon was a 15-year-old Jewish boy of Polish origin who had already gone through a lot. He had to see how his father was killed in the Lodz ghetto. He had to live with the idea that his mother had been killed in the gas chamber. He had to survive the Holocaust.

Shimon was imprisoned in one of the death camps called Chelmno, which was located in occupied Poland. There, Shimon was forced to work at the crematorium, where the bodies of the killed people were destroyed around the clock.

On January 18, 1945, Soviet troops fought for the territory where Chelmno was located. The camp leadership decided to get rid of the witnesses of their atrocities and crimes. All prisoners were sentenced to death, they began to be shot. Shimon, saying goodbye to life, received his bullet in the back of the head. He fell on other prisoners. The Nazis continued to shoot. Shimon found that blood was pouring from his mouth, he was in pain, he could move, which means that he was completely alive. The bullet somehow miraculously passed without hitting either the spinal cord or the brain, it exited through the mouth, there was even a little blood.

Srebrnik lived until 2006, he testified a lot against the Nazis, his testimony became almost the main one against the leadership of the Chelmno camp.

Today, these first and last names are not widely known even in the territories of the post-Soviet space. And in honor of Constantine on the Moon, one of the craters is named, however, on its reverse side, but still. Feoktistov was an astronaut and an outstanding space engineer. At the age of 16 he fought with the Nazis as part of the Soviet troops.

During the Nazi occupation of Voronezh, Kostya performed reconnaissance missions for the Voronezh Front. Unfortunately, the guy was captured by an army patrol of the Waffen-SS. The conversation with the young intelligence officer was short - the death penalty on the spot through execution. A Wehrmacht soldier aimed at the head and fired. The bullet hit the right place, and the guy fell backwards. There was no time to check whether the scout was dead or not, and everything shows that he is dead. However, Kostya almost immediately realized that they don’t die like that. Death should be dark and no. But it is hot, angry and lashes right from the throat, because this is not death - this is blood, this is life. Kostya crawled to his own.

As it turned out later, the bullet passed through the neck and chin, but did not touch the brain and large arteries. Constantine was destined to leave a significant mark on the history of mankind. He lived until 2009 and died at the age of 83.

Another "bulletproof", surviving after his own execution. The sentence was carried out during the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917. Some of the nine shots he received severely disfigured the guy's face. But he survived, left the place of his execution on his own, and found people who helped him. There are a lot of memories left, and Miguel was forced to look like a veteran of the First World War, to whom part of his face was blown off by a fragment all his life.

Willie Francis

The case of Willie Francis is very resonant, because he became the first person who managed to survive after an execution in the electric chair. Willy was 16 years old when he was sentenced to capital punishment for the murder of his employer - the owner of a pharmacy. In May 1946, Willy sat in the electric chair. But when it started working, he shouted: "I'm not dying, I'm frying, turn it off." The chair was turned off, and then it turned out that it was faulty.

Willie Francis in his cell on the eve of his execution

The incident gave Willie another year of life. Lawyers fought for him as best they could, they asked to replace the execution with life imprisonment. However, their efforts were in vain, and the guy was executed in May 1947 in the electric chair.

This is a disgusting man, he kidnapped, raped, and killed. He definitely deserved to die. In 2009, he was sentenced to it, and lethal injection was chosen as the instrument of execution - as a humane means.

Romel became the first and only person who survived after her. The fact is that the executioner for a very long time could not find a vein on the body of Romel. And after vain attempts, the injection was introduced into the place where the vein should approximately be. This allowed Broome to survive.

This incident saved the man's life. Since he witnessed that the death penalty by injection is actually not humane and terrible. His lawyers managed to initiate a whole movement against this type of execution.

Evan McDonald

In 1752, this man in an ordinary brawl cut his friend's throat. For this he was sentenced to death by hanging. But something went wrong, and Evan did not die completely (hanging is generally some kind of unreliable way). He was sent to the mortuary, because everything seemed that the man was dead.

When, a few hours later, a surgeon entered there, who was going to cut and thoroughly examine the body of the criminal, he was dumbfounded. Evan sat on the table and looked around in great surprise. The surgeon was a good guy and decided to stand up for his life in front of the revived dead. He grabbed an operation hammer and hit MacDonald on the head. This finished off the man completely, and the surgeon began to carry out his plan.

Amerigo Dumini was born in St. Louis, USA to Italian and British immigrants and moved to Italy. In 1913 he joined the army and renounced his US citizenship. During the First World War, he was an attack aircraft, was seriously wounded and awarded. After he became an ardent supporter of Benito Mussolini, he participated in contract political assassinations. In general, he was a bright figure. During World War II, he served in Derna, Libya, where he was captured by British soldiers. He was quite rightly mistaken for a spy and, according to the laws of wartime, they decided to shoot Amerigo. 17 bullets fired by the firing squad did not reach their target.

When Dumini returned to Italy, he was received with surprise and offered a generous pension. He went into business as a carrier and bought a villa in a residential area of ​​Florence. He lived to be 73 years old, successfully released after a life sentence for serving the fascist regime, after serving eight years.

Philip Fabricius

These are also things of bygone days. Philip was included in this collection because of the unusual type of execution to which he was quickly sentenced during the Protestant uprising in Prague on May 23, 1618. He was present in the office of the Bohemian courtier in Prague Castle, along with the Catholic regents, during the meeting. At that moment, armed Protestant lords burst into the hall, who rebelled against the Catholic king. The rebels decided to carry out massacre on the spot. Those sentenced to death flew from the windows of the palace down from a height of 20 meters (approximately the seventh floor of a classic nine-story panel building).

Apparently, the fall softened something, and therefore the execution failed. Everyone who was thrown out of the windows escaped with injuries of varying severity, and Philip did with a couple of bruises and abrasions. Fabricius immediately fled to Vienna and there spoke about the uprising. There he lived his life, successfully moving up the career ladder. Philip died 13 years after surviving his own execution.

"Man Franks"

In 1872, an incredible event took place in Australia, which was even written about in the newspapers. The killer, known to everyone as Man Franks, survived his own hanging because he was executed by incompetent dupes.

First, the rope, on which the condemned man was to be hung, got wet from the rain, as it was left on the street. Then the executioners decided to dry it, but quickly, so they lit a fire. The rope dried up, but it stopped sliding completely. It could not even be properly fixed on Franks' neck. When this somehow happened, a support was knocked out from under him, and he began to hang out, trying in vain to suffocate. He wheezed, spat and asked to be finished off. At last he was able to free his hands, which were tied as badly as the noose around his neck. Frank pulled himself up on them, which caused a wave of laughter. He rudely cursed the useless organization of the execution, and the rope on which he hung was cut.

No one had a desire to complete what they had begun, and the sentence to the failed hangman was replaced with a more benign one.