Execution sites
· Vanalinn
The Executioner’s Social Exile
The executioner could earn a wage for necessary duties while facing social exclusion from other townspeople.
A medieval or early modern city required someone to carry out death sentences and other penalties. The very work commissioned by the authorities could make its performer an outcast. Stories placing the executioner near the wall in the Rüütli Street area reflect a boundary between respectable urban life and a stigmatised profession. A precise house cannot be inferred from a modern street number alone. The story says much about a city that ordered violence while holding its agent at a distance.
Practical information
Address: Rüütli tänava piirkond
View the Rüütli Street area from public space. Do not label a present house as an executioner’s home without a historical source.