Comments on: At the end of his rope: The execution of William Williams https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/12/at-the-end-of-his-rope-the-execution-of-william-williams/ Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:30:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/12/at-the-end-of-his-rope-the-execution-of-william-williams/#comment-486059 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:30:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15874#comment-486059 Looks interesting (as I skim while students complete an exam). But I can’t reconcile, with skimming, your comment “the rope was too short…” with this from the paper’s abstract:

How Too Much Rope……

and
Because the county sheriff miscalculated the length of the rope, the hanging was botched, with Williams hitting the floor when the trap door was opened.

I think you meant to type “the rope was too long…” ?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/12/at-the-end-of-his-rope-the-execution-of-william-williams/#comment-486058 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:02:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15874#comment-486058 Note: If you go to the MinnPost link you may get a malware warning. The editors of MinnPost assure me that there is no malware, that the malware flaggy thing has been cleared, and that the certitude of the site merely needs to propagate down the intertubes for a while.

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