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Cornelis Palamedes
(1673? - 1730) Holland

burning at the stake

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He was one of sixty men executed for sodomy in Holland during 1730-1731; Palamedes was half-strangled, then burned to ashes in 1730 in the Hague, having confessed in prison to seducing another man 18 years before (the other man, Dirk van Rooyen, was also executed).

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