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 ...
Sara Mayeux
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. 