A serial killer, a child-murderer, a worker at a bread kiln.
"Desert Vampire executed."
From the early morning, police wagons drove through the streets announcing
the location and the time of the execution. "At nine in the main
square!" they yelled into loudspeakers, and thousands responded to
these calls.
Soon the square was full of people. Bunches of young boys dangled from
trees and lampposts. Spectators held back by barbed wire and 100 policeman
chanted, "Harder! Harder!" as officials took turns to flog the
killer's bare back.
He was flogged 100 times before being hanged. A brother of one of his young
victims stabbed him as he was being punished. Officials invited the mother
of another victim to put the rope around his neck. To put the blue nylon
noose around his neck. The killer was hoisted high into the air by a crane
and slowly throttled to death in front of the begging crowd. Hanging by a
crane does not involve a swift death, as the condemned prisoner's neck
is not broken.
He tricked children to go with him into the desert by saying that they were
going to hunt animals. There he would kill them. Then he would burn or bury
their bodies.
"Again! Kill him again!" His body swayed above the main square.
Despite their frustration and anger, participants called it "their
happiest day."
Please hang in there..
