"Et verbum caro fac[t]um est" means "And the word ist made flesh" (but only with the added 't')

One of my favorite stories about executioners is the French executioner Capeluche training the man who was assigned to kill HIM so he’d get it right. One clean chop - it would be terrible to have a botched execution where you linger in agony while some amateur hacks at your half-severed neck!