A handbook on hanging
Subtitle: being a short introduction to the fine art of execution
By: Charles Duff
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: History
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780752460680
Subjects: Capital punishment; Hanging; History
Description: "A Handbook on Hanging is a satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation: the hangman. With barbed wit, Charles Duff not only writes of hanging, but also of electrocution, decapitation and gassing; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of bloodlust mobs and the political expedients of the great. A classic satire, admired by Berthold Brecht and Dylan Thomas, Duff's polemic makes it clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be - justice, vengeance, a deterrent - it is certainly killing."--Back cover.