A odsuzuje se k trestu smrti - Odsouzeni a popraveni – Šámal Petr (2024)

Evil in its purest form. This is how the stories of the most monstrous murderers and the most bestial murders in the history of the Czech lands are presented, which Petr Šámal has gathered in the second volume of his bestseller. From the Middle Ages, when Roháč's gang murdered, among others, pregnant women to ensure their elusiveness through a ritual ceremony, and the 'Czech Lady of Čachtice,' Kateřina of Komárov, skinned her subjects alive, to the interwar murderers – the emotionally flat and cynical killer Antonín Weiss or Svatoslav Štěpánek, who killed out of fascination with severed breasts – and post-war murderers, among whom the name of the seven-time murderer Mrázek still lingers in people's memories, up to Olga Hepnarová, who caused a massacre at a Prague tram station with a truck, and the pedophile Milan Stránský. In the end, justice caught up with them all, and they died by the executioner's hand. But evil in its purest form can never be atoned for and by nothing... *********** It is said that in her final moments before execution, Olga Hepnarová experienced them very intensely... She was brought for execution on March 12 in the early morning. From the death cell at Pankrác, she descends the stairs to the basement, where the presiding judge, prosecutor, head of the unit, and doctor are present. The condemned is once again informed of the verdict and its...