num_pages: 436
description: From the gruesomely familiar to the grisly and bizarre, this unique encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive history ever published of the "art" of execution -- the ultimate penalty. Details the many ingenious and seemingly incomprehensible means used through history, including the more familiar guillotine, stoning, and crucifixion, such less-known acts as sewing a victim into the belly of a dead animal, and such "modern" methods as lethal injection and the electric chair. Black-and-white illustrations.
language: English
title: The Book of Execution: An Encyclopedia of Methods of Judicial Execution
titlecomplete: The Book of Execution: An Encyclopedia of Methods of Judicial Execution
genres: True Crime, Crime, History, Horror, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 183
publisher: Headline Book Pub Ltd