Editing Fritz Haarmann (section)

==Execution==
At six o'clock on the morning of 15 April 1925, Haarmann was beheaded by [[guillotine]] in the grounds of Hanover prison.<ref name="ReferenceF"/> His executioner was [[Carl Gröpler]]. By German tradition, Haarmann was not informed of his execution date until the prior evening. Upon receipt of the news, he observed prayer with his pastor, before being granted his final wishes of an expensive cigar to smoke and Brazilian coffee to drink in his cell.<ref name="Southeast Missourian Apr. 15, 1925">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=19250415&id=wiQrAAAAIBAJ&pg=4160,4483255|title=The Southeast Missourian |via= Google News Archive Search|access-date=26 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/178388818|title=Callous Murderer: Strangler's Last Request|date=6 February 1925|work=The Telegraph|access-date=5 June 2019}}</ref>

No members of the press were permitted to witness the execution, and the event was seen by only a handful of witnesses.<ref name="Southeast Missourian Apr. 15, 1925"/> According to published reports, although Haarmann was pale and nervous, he maintained a sense of bravado as he walked to the guillotine. The [[last words]] Haarmann spoke were: "I am guilty, gentlemen, but, hard though it may be, I want to die as a man."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=897&dat=19250415&id=_aRaAAAAIBAJ&pg=2571,3694356|title=Fritz Haarmann, Hanover Butcher and Slayer of 26 Men and Boys, Is Guillotined; Wanted to Die Like a Man, He Told His Executioners|access-date=26 October 2020|newspaper=The Prescott Evening Courier|date=15 April 1925}}</ref> Immediately prior to placing his head upon the execution apparatus, Haarmann added: "I [[repentance|repent]], but I do not fear death."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dRgsAAAAIBAJ&pg=5034,3477391&dq|title=Execute Three Men in Europe: Fritz Haarmann, Lurer of Youths, Dies on the guillotine|date=15 April 1925|work=[[TimesDaily|The Florence Times]]|page=4|access-date=18 June 2011|location=Hanover, Germany}}</ref>