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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... Torn Apart by Boats Torn Apart by Horses Twenty-Four Cuts Miscellaneous Jargon of the Unden/vorld Appendices Select Bibliography Also by Geoffrey Abbott About the Author Copyright Dedicated to David and Jil Atkinson who, when l faltered.
... Russell. l have heard you gave him three or four strokes — if you strike me twice I cannot promise not to move.' The noble duke should have saved not only his money but his breath as well, for it took Jack Ketch five blows before.
... four Yeoman Warders, two and two, then I followed singley; after Me followd Lord Kilmarnock the Prisoner, then the Chaplins and two friends. Then Lord Balmerino attended by the Gentleman Gaoler; then followd an Officer and fifteen men ...
... four staples driven into the boards, to which the king would be secured should he resist. Of the fifteen people present on the scaffold — His Majesty's personal bishop, friends and Parliamentary officers — two were the executioners, one ...
... four corners, the head and body being consumed in the conflagration. Nor did Austria hesitate to execute women with such a weapon. In the 1930s police became suspicious about an attractive young woman, Martha Lowenstein. Adopted by an ...
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