As stayed or commuted convicts, executioners consequently lived as inmates in the prisons of the respective towns where they were based.
In the state of Rio de Janeiro, after Independence September 7, 1822 there were also free executioners of African descent who having to travel around, were reached by couriers with execution orders.
The last execution of a free convict in Brazil was that of José Pereira de Sousa October 30, 1861 in Santa Luzia (nowadays Luziânia), GO.
The last execution at all under law in Brazil was that of the slave Francisco April 28, 1876 in Pilar, AL. Brazil abolished capital punishment officially with the Proclamation of the Republic November 15, 1889, and by law with its first Republican Constitution of 1891 and Penal Code of September 22, 1892. see: Andlau see: Sarre-Union see: Ohnenheim see: Epfig see: Memmelshoffen see: Gundershoffen see: Saverne see: La Petite-Pierre see: Gundershoffen see: Bouxwiller see: Sarre-Union see: Wasselonne see: Mulhouse see: Ribeauvillé see: Thann Mortagne-au-Perche see: Chinon With a four-year delay in 1875 also Corsica was integrated into the area of the executioner of the republic's activity; see: Monsieur de Paris For the different department numbers, before 1976 Corsica used to be one department only and was codenumbered with 20 by then.
1537 Except for Western Berlin where the Allied did not validate the new German constitution, West Germany had abolished capital punishment May 23, 1949.
Despite at least one executioner continued nominated, no death sentences or executions ordered by German courts in that period have been reported so far.
Until 1868 most of executors employed by one-one bigger cities (who possessed the "pallosjog [1]" [right for execution] e. c. Buda) or travellers(gypsied) did this as temporary job(until the 18th century).
Joseph Malta (1918–1999) was the hangman who, with John C. Woods, executed the top 10 leaders of the Third Reich in Nuremberg on October 16, 1946, for crimes against humanity.