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Executioners: Men and Women Who Kill for the People

✍ Scribed by Clarke, Phil; Hardy, Liz; Williams, Anne

Book ID: 107503190
Publisher: Omnipress
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 511 KB
Series: Canary True Crime
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781907795251

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Some people kill for the sheer thrill of it, others for revenge or for financial gain. Executioners kill because the state employs them to do it – but who chooses to be an executioner ... and why? This book investigates the history of capital punishment across the world, and the fascinating lives and careers of the people who are employed to deliver the ultimate penalty.

Early Forms of Execution
The Spanish Inquisition
The Witch Hunters
Impalement
Newgate Prison, London
Tyburn Gallows, London
The Guillotine
Hanged, Drawn and Quartered
The Electric Chair
The Gas Chamber
Lethal Injection

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