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Details the ridiculous ways in which a number of ill-fated unfortunates met (or failed to meet) their maker at the hands of lamentably inept executioners. With black and white illustrations, this book brings together a mixture of bungled executions, strange last requests, and classic one-liners from medieval times to the present day.;ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: METHODS OF TORTURE AND EXECUTION; METHODS OF TORTURE; The Boots; Branding; The Rack; Water Torture; METHODS OF EXECUTION; The Heading Axe and Block; Boiled to Death; Burned at the Stake; Electric Chair; Firing Squad; Gas Chamber; The Guillotine; Hanging; Hanged, Drawn and Quartered; Lethal Injection; The Scottish Maiden; The Execution Sword; The Wheel; PART TWO: THE UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS; The Axe; Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Baron Balmerino; Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.
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