Ashmawy hanged 1070 people ... the most famous executioner in the world died

 Hussein Al-Ashmawy, the most famous executioner in the world, died in Egypt yesterday.

Hussein Qarni was born in Samanoud district in the Greater Gharbia governorate in 1947. He memorized parts of the Holy Qur’an and applied for a job as a police assistant and joined police work after passing the exams and practicing work until he was transferred to the Prisons Authority. He worked as an assistant to “Ahmed Ashmawy” in 1980, and at that time he was responsible for bringing The accused was removed from his room and controlled and taken to the sheriff’s office and then the execution room, as well as carrying a work kit, which consisted of a linen rope, a piece of iron and a black hat, and he remained so until he became the first man to carry out death sentences.

He carried out his first death sentence against a woman accused of killing her husband and brother, inside Benha prison, and that incident was the beginning of a change in his life, towards a long series of sentences that he carried out throughout his history until he entered the Guinness Book of Records.

The deceased, Hussein Ashmawy, had carried out 1070 death sentences, 20% of whom were women, most of whom killed their husbands, and entered the Guinness Book of Records as the most executioner in the world.

And Ashmawy had stated in one of the press interviews, "I used to receive 20 pounds for each death sentence during the 1990s, and the wage has now risen to 100 pounds, and if time went back in time, I would have chosen the same job."

Ashmawy added, “I cannot eat or do anything else before the execution of a death sentence, so a state of asceticism prevails over me in everything, and after the execution of the sentence is completed, I feel that a great burden has been put on my shoulders, and then I can go out and buy meat to eat, and live my life like any other. another person".

Ashmawy mentioned that he executed 1,070 people, but he was a very romantic person and always listened to Abdel Halim Hafez and Umm Kulthum.

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