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>the tea drinker was the first to die, at age 83;

For being condemned criminals it sounds like they were well cared for.

Also what are the odds of finding condemned twins?

If they committed crimes together, not hard. If things like political crimes can be punished by death, even easier. If the king says “get me a pair of identical twins condemned to death” very easy. Go into a poor neighborhood, find a pair of twins and drag them in on an unsolved murder.

That's such a nauseating reality.

Yeah, the cited pages don't seem to have any scholarly references, and one of them notes that "the authenticity of the story has been questioned", so I rather doubt it.

Sweden has been good at keeping public records of trials since far earlier than this experiment, so if it happened there are surely written records about it in an archive somewhere. Someone just needs to spend countless hours digging through archives…

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