 Furthermore, one of Dolle's arms and one of his legs had not broken according to proper penal procedure.And finally the nail that was customarily hammered through the convict's brain in order to fasten him upon the wheel had been hammered in far too low.Many believed that Essmeyer's act of malpractice had been not so much a display of gross incompetence as a deliberate act of cruelty because just prior to his execution Dolle had converted from Catholicism to the Reformed Church.