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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... book, the author apologises if he has inadvertently failed to credit any such ownership. * * * Photographic work is by The Studio Workshop, Kendal, Cumbria. INTRODUCTION - SO Man learned to tie knots - and Acknowledgements.
... Man learned to tie knots - and so was able to create a hangman's noose ; means of making fire were discovered - and heretics were burned at the stake ; the wheel was invented - and felons were broken on it ; blunt iron became sharpened ...
... man to be executed by the axe in this country. The instrument is about thirty-six inches long and weighs seven pounds fifteen ounces. The rough, unpolished blade is sixteen and a half inches long, its cutting edge being ten and a half ...
... man at the centre of the proceedings was executioner John Thrift , a man hardly suited for such a role . For the past ten years or so he had been carrying out his duties more or less adequately , dispatching his victims in the ...
... man fell dead, and Thrift was identified by the mob as the assailant. At his trial he was sentenced to death, but this sentence was reduced to one of transportation to the American colonies. However, the City Corporation realised that ...
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