: Over a 45-year career, Schmidt personally executed 394 individuals and administered corporal punishment (flogging, disfiguring, or torturing) to hundreds more.
: His executions were highly regulated by city authorities and varied by the crime. Beheading with a sword was considered the most "honorable" death, while hanging was the least. The Faithful Executioner, Life and Death, Honor...
Despite his grim "day job," Schmidt was not a social monster but a complex, three-dimensional figure. : Over a 45-year career, Schmidt personally executed