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John Hinckley is in the news this week as a evaluator considers whether the valet who shot President Reagan should be able tolive as an outpatient . Here ’s a look at the destiny of various mass who were more successful at taking down world leader .
1. Balthasar Gerard
Gerard , a Catholic Frenchman , assassinated William I of Orange , the leader of the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule in 1584 . Gerard ’s attempt to flee the scene did n’t work out , and the authorities gruesomely tortured him for days . Gerard ’s capturer hung arduous stones from his toes , crushed his feet , and branded and broil his skin .
As unpleasant as that sounds , it was just the prelude to Gerard ’s real sentence that had been prescribed by the local magistrates . His correct helping hand was cauterize off with a red - hot Fe before he was disemboweled alive and had his philia removed and throw in his face . This sentence might be the definition of " overkill . “
2. Francois Ravaillac
Raivallac fatally stabbed King Henry IV of France in 1610 , allegedly because he had receive a vision instruct him to help win over the whole nation to Catholicism . He was save from lynching straightaway after the assassination , but in retrospect Ravaillac probably should have taken his probability with the mob rather than face his cruel official punishment . After having molten metals and simmering oil pour on his body , his four limb were chain to four horses , which were driven in opposite management until he was rip aside .
3. Charles Guiteau
Unfortunately for Guiteau , the effectual system did n’t share his opinion on the real culprit in Garfield ’s death . He was hanged in June 1882 after reading sometruly gonzo last words . If you need to get a flavor at Guiteau , though , you still can . A slice of his brain is on display at Philadelphia ’s awesome Mutter Museum . If you do n’t want to make a special misstep to see a patch of just one presidential assassin , they ’ve also get a save growth remove from John Wilkes Booth .
4. John Wilkes Booth
speak of Booth , he did n’t get along too well , either . Although he manage to escape from Ford ’s Theater and spent 12 Clarence Day on the lam , the bureau eventually get up to Booth as he hide out in a Virginia tobacco barn . The soldier torched the barn and then shoot Booth through the backbone .
Booth did n’t rest in much peace . His body was first buried in a storage elbow room at a penitentiary before being go to a storage warehouse . In 1869 his corpse was exhumed again and motivate to the Booth family plot at a Baltimore cemetery .
Since Booth ’s death , hypothesis have eddy that maybe the soldiers shot the wrong man as the genuine assassin got away , and every so often historians attempt to disinter the body yet again to aver the corpse ’s identicalness .
5. Leon Czolgosz
Czolgosz , the anarchist who assassinate William McKinley in 1901 , ride a quick trial and conviction straight to the electric chair at New York ’s Auburn State Prison just 45 days after enkindle the black shot . After Czolgosz took his jar of electricity , authority doused his eubstance with sulfuric acid to decompose the remains .
6. Gavrilo Princip
The Yugoslavian nationalist whose character assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand , the presumptive heritor to the Austro - Hungarian throne , helped kick off World War I , was too immature to be give ear for his offence . Princip doubly attempted suicide in prison , but neither ferment . ( His cyanide was too decrepit to fatally poison him , and he could n’t get a shot off when he set about to shoot himself . )
Just because the authorities could n’t kill Princip meant they treated him well , though . He was hold in a squalid prison in what is now the Czech Republic and died of tuberculosis in 1918 . He press less than 90 pounds when he died .
7. Yigal Amir
Amir , the assassinator responsible for for the 1995 execution of Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin , received a life sentence plus 14 years for his crimes . After spending several years in unfrequented labor , Amir marry old acquaintance Larissa Trembovler and has since fathered a son thanks to conjugal visits .
8. Oliver Cromwell
You ’ve got to hand it to the English monarchy ; they ’re as imaginative as they are grisly when it comes to punishing regicide . After the restoration of the monarchy to power in 1660 , the royal crime syndicate want to punish Cromwell for his part in the execution of King Charles I. There was a slight hitch , though ; at that point Cromwell had been bushed for two years .
This clause in the beginning appeared in 2009 .
