The Colloredo Twins' Deadly Trial

In 17th-century Italy, a man named Lazarus Colloredo stood convicted of murder while living with his parasitic conjoined twin, Joannes Baptista. He had killed that man in a fit of rage after he made fun of Joannes. Facing execution, he argued that carrying out the sentence would also kill his attached brother, who had committed no crime. They pardoned him to spare the innocent twin.

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