6.The men who were executed in Bologna are known to have been nothing but common malefactors; and the character of many who escaped will hardly bear description.
7.The malefactor was fixed in a chair upon a scaffold erected for that purpose, and his head cut off at one blow, with a sword of about forty feet long.
8." It's all very well to be particular and exclusive, Grassini; but these 'common malefactors' died for their belief, which is more than you or I have done as yet" .