An edition of A handbook on hanging
(2011)
A handbook on hanging
being a short introduction to the fine art of execution
New ed.
by Charles Duff
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"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.
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A handbook on hanging: being a short introduction to the fine art of execution
2011, History
in English
- New ed.
0752460684 9780752460680
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