--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote:
> <snip>
> > I was never into whaling lore, but for about a year I lived
> > out on Marblehead Neck, near Boston. It was very near Salem,
> > MA, home of the Salem witch trials, and a museum to them.
> > In it you could read -- on the original parchments, written
> > in the original hands of the people who wrote them -- the
> > court records of the men who pressed to death quite a few
> > women for the crime of...uh...not being the kind of women
> > they were expected to be. Nothing more.
>
> FWIW, those convicted in the Salem witch trials were
> hanged, not pressed to death, except for one man who
> refused to enter a plea at trial. This was not an
> execution method but a torture technique designed to
> extort a guilty plea. Giles Corey (the Salem man)
> seems to have been the only person in the U.S. who is
> known to have been subjected to this method. He died
> after refusing to plead guilty for three days.
>
Pretty much psychopathic behavior...must have got off on this type of thing...
After a proper day of torturing and murder,
went home had a few drinks, screwed their obedient wife and fell into a drunken
stupor...of sleep...
