A handbook on hanging
Subtitle: being a short introduction to the fine art of execution ...
By: by Charles Duff ; with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Hanging.; Capital punishment.
Description: "... A Swiftian tribute ... not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitation, and gassing; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and political expedients of the great."--Cover.
Notes: Originally published: London : Putnam, 1961.