Inside the Diaries of Anatole Deibler, France's Top Death Penalty-Era Executioner
Anatole Deibler kept photographs and "criminal resumés" of his 299 beheadings. This article originally appeared on VICE France. Lining the pages of Anatole Deibler's diaries aren't descriptions of what he did that day, but portraits of murderers, thieves and child rapists. They are the faces of …
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