Past Horizons: Kill to Be Killed in 18th Century Denmark

Article from Past Horizons on the phenomenon of “suicide murder” in 18th-century Denmark:

Civil courts sentenced suicide murderers to be pinched five times with red-hot tongs on their way from the prison to the scaffold. Then their hands were chopped off, followed by the head, after which the dead body was displayed on a big wheel as a warning to others.

Image: The Royal Library, Copenhagen; via Past Horizons.