Before Execution Methods Were Regulated, Every Town Has Its Own Way to Kill | Bizarre History

Every county in England had its own executioner, and none of them agreed on how to do the job. Some prisoners died in an instant. Others didn't. What decided it wasn't the law, it was one measurement nobody had figured out how to calculate yet, and the story of who finally solved it, and who later ignored the solution entirely, is stranger than you'd expect. #history #truecrime #bizarrehistory