The Faithful Executioner

Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.Following in his father s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running the large medical practice that he had always viewed as his true vocation.Through examination of Frantz s exceptional and often ove...