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When John (Babbacombe) Lee, convicted of several nasty murders, was to be hanged, the gallows, which functioned perfectly when checked before, after and during using a sandbag on the trap, refused three times to function when Lee stood on the trap.Under British law of the day, this was considered to epresent Divine intervention, and his death sentence was commuted to transportation for life.Dav...
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