A new handbook on hanging
Subtitle: being a short introduction to the fine art of execution, containing much useful information on neck-breaking, throttling, strangling, asphyxiation, decapitation and electrocution. ... to which is added an account of the great Nuremberg hangings, a ready reckoner for hangmen, and many other items of interest
Edition: Definitive ed., diligently compared and rev. in accordance with the most recent developments in the art.
Publisher: Henry Regnery
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Hanging; Capital punishment
Notes: "First appeared under the title A handbook on hanging, in 1928.

Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.

Gift of Alene Bricken, April 4, 2001