A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution - Couverture souple

Duff, Charles

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ISBN 10 : 0752460684 ISBN 13 : 9780752460680

Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

A Handbook on Hanging is a satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation: the hangman. With barbed wit, Charles Duff not only writes of hanging, but also of electrocution, decapitation and gassing; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of bloodlust mobs and the political expedients of the great. A classic satire, admired by Bertholt Brecht and Dylan Thomas, Duff’s polemic makes it clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be – justice, vengeance, a deterrent – it is certainly killing.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0752460684
• ISBN 13: 9780752460680
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible