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This is a trade paperback edition in very good condition for its age. The covers are showing signs of storage. Faint inch-long crease to front cover and a number of small indentations and scratches to rear and front covers. This edition was first published in 1998 but this is a later reprint from 2000.
SYNOPSIS: “Throughout the centuries there has been no end to the imaginative methods used to execute those who have committed criminal acts: cutting in two and boiling alive, crucifying and beheading, injection and electrocution, and – in the case of one adulterous woman – being sewn into a sack with poisonous snakes and other animals and thrown into a pond to drown.
Howard Engel has written this wise and witty history about the methods and the men who throughout the centuries have been our agents of deeath, from William Calcraft, the quiet, church-going family man who executed more men than anyone in the history of England and picked up extra money doing whipppings and floggings, to Arthur Ellis, who dispatched as many as six hundred people and was known for carrying his own portable gallows to rural hangings…”
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