Sara Mayeux is the Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow at Harvard Law School for 2013–14 and a PhD candidate in United States history at Stanford University. She holds a JD from Stanford Law School.
Sara Mayeux
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Progress and Execution
Frantz Schmidt hanged his first thief when he was 19, on a June day in 1573. Either his father or another master executioner pronounced the hanging “executed adroitly,” concluding Frantz’s apprenticeship and certifying him as a master in his own right. Over the next four decades, Frantz would hang, behead, or otherwise kill 394 people, […]
