Execution: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to DeathSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2006. ápr. 4. - 288 oldal In his own darkly humorous style, Geoffrey Abbott describes the instruments used and their effectiveness and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as "gone west" or "drawn a blank," as well as the jargon of the underworld. He covers everything from the preparation of the victim to the disposal of the body. Execution is everything you ever wanted to know about the ultimate penalty---and a lot you never thought to ask. |
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... French and American staffs of NATO libraries during the years 1956 to 1974, and the curators and custodians of the many Continental museums and castles who so kindly imparted information on their more gruesome exhibits. In particular ...
... French aristocrats concealed their emotions on the scaffold by making light-hearted comments, so did those Englishmen as they faced the axe. Sir Thomas More, accused of treason for failing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church ...
... French executioner of Louis XVI, 'he died of remorse at killing a king'. Although now the name of Brandon is hardly remembered, that of another executioner is recalled by the name given to the gibbetshaped cranes seen at docks and ...
... attracting a vast concourse of people which had assembled before dawn and grew even larger by the hour. Not every boiling went well, as the records of the French town of Tours show: 'On Monday 11 February 1488, a coiner of bad money,
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