The resurrected servant
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Many of those sentenced to death over the years were executed by hanging. For a long time, it was considered a safe way to carry out capital punishment, since it causes a rupture of the cervical vertebrae, an inability to breathe and finally death, all, usually, in an instant. Few people survive it. Anne Greene is one of them, and she owes her life to a few simple medical procedures, far from any divine intervention...
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