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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.
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A HANDBOOK ON HANGING
Edité par
The Journeyman Press, 1981
ISBN 10 : 0904526593
ISBN 13 : 9780904526592
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Vendeur : Loretta Lay Books, London, Royaume-Uni
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Softcover / Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 5th or later edition. Paperback. Reprinted from the 1974 8th edn. (1st pub. 1928), 'Being a short Introduction to the fine Art of Execution, containing much useful Information on Neck-breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; Data and Wrinkles on Hangmanship; with the late Mr. Hangman Berry's Method and his pioneering List of Drops; to which is added an Account of the Great Nuremberg Hangings; a Ready Reckoner for Hangmen; and many other items of interest including the Anatomy of Murder. Finally Definitive Edition Diligently Compared and Revised in Accordance with the most Recent Developments in the Art. All very Proper to be read and kept in every Family'. With Appendix : A Ready Reckoner for Hangmen. 192pp. p/back. A narrow strip either side of sp. sunned (see images) o/w Vg+ with minimal creasing. N° de réf. du vendeur 20570
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