Was he really screaming and snivelling like a coward while being dragged to his execution and dropped from the hanging platform?
shareOh, hell yeah.
Took him eleven minutes to stop breathing, too. Plenty of time to think on his contributions to mankind.
A few of the guards around the gallows had to hang on his legs to advance the strangulation process. Sadly, I think they decapitated him from their weight on his neck.
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I didn't know the victim's family could witness executions in the 20's.
shareNot sure if you are referring to Ms. Collins, as she did not witness the execution. She was summoned to the prison at the last moment, (which was highly unusual), as she wanted to try one last time to ask Northcott about her son,
Walter. It may have been the Northcott summoned her telling prison officials that he wanted to speak with her, but at any rate, when she got there, Northcutt would not speak. He was executed, but I am about 99% certain that Ms. Collins had gone home and did not witness the execution.
Nope, she was there as they marched him to the gallows.
shareWhere do you get your information from regarding her presence at the execution?
sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Qap03dvMo
Look at 1:00 in.
That's a film called The Changeling and some of the film has nothing to do whatsoever with the Truth of the matter. For the truth of the matter, read the book by James Jeffrey Paul, Nothing is strange with you.
Just curious Explorer DS6789............do you think Walter Collins was murdered or may have been still alive as the film suggested?
Do you believe that there was an escape from the Chicken Coops as depicted in the film?
Do you belive that a boy named David Clay actually came forward several years later to confess to the escape from the chicken-coops and that Walter was one of the escaped boys?
Why do you believe that the film is the True Story of what happened?
I do not understand why someone like that would be so afraid to die after the horrible things he had done.
A coward indeed.
He'd probably be let off on mental illness today.
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shareslow deaths are the worst. that's why they outlawed hanging and now do the lethal injection. that hanging scene traumatized me.
shareNothing compared to the real-life botched execution by lethal injection that recently failed miserabley. I think it took about 3 hours for them to finally figure out how to kill the guy and then they decided to close the curtains. I think the warden went up and simply strangled the guy. Very reminiscent of the scene from "The Green Mile" and Percy's intentional botching of the electrocution. If you haven't seen the green mile, I strongly recommend it. A classic story of good versus evil.
shareDeath by firing line should be the preferred choice today. Cheap, instant death.
shareslow deaths are the worst. that's why they outlawed hanging and now do the lethal injection. that hanging scene traumatized me.Some states (e.g., Washington) have hanging as an option if the inmate chooses it.
Apparently, yes. All accounts are almost exactly the same as follows:
The most difficult hanging was that of Gordon Stewart Northcott, who with his mother kidnaped and killed young boys after sexually assaulting them. On his last morning, Northcott began screaming and trembling.
His hands shook fiercely as they were strapped together. "Will it hurt?" he asked softly. Told that no one had ever complained, he asked for a blindfold so he would not have to see the gallows. He was dragged into the gallows room, pleading with guards, "Please--don't make me walk so fast."
Most condemned climbed the 13 steps to the platform. Northcott had to be hauled up a step at a time, moaning louder at each step. Seconds before the trap was sprung, Northcott screamed, "A prayer--please, say a prayer for me."
I read in real life. He went crazy going up the stairs and asked for a blindfold. What is really amazing. I saw pictures of Northcott and he could be the great grandfather of the actor who played him in the movie.
I wonder what if feels like to be in a movie like this and never get to do interviews about your part of the movie.