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1varielle
The Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Madame Guillotine: The French Revolution by Simon Farrell
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Madame Guillotine: The French Revolution by Simon Farrell
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
2lilithcat
A Handbook on Hanging, Being a short introduction to the fine art of Execution, and containing much useful information on Neck-breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Dcapitation and lectrocution; as well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an account of the late Mr. Berry's method of Killing and his working list of Drops; to which is added a Hangman's Ready Reckoner and certain other items, by Charles Duff
The autobiography of an execution, by David R. Dow
The Lesson of the Scaffold : the Public Execution Controversy in Victorian England, by David D. Cooper
The Death of Innocents: an Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, by Helen Prejean
Angel of death row : my life as a death penalty defense lawyer, by Andrea D. Lyon
The autobiography of an execution, by David R. Dow
The Lesson of the Scaffold : the Public Execution Controversy in Victorian England, by David D. Cooper
The Death of Innocents: an Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, by Helen Prejean
Angel of death row : my life as a death penalty defense lawyer, by Andrea D. Lyon
3ahef1963
>2 lilithcat: Is that a book you've actually read? It sounds gruesome and yet somehow fascinating.
The Hanging Valley by Peter Robinson
Gallows View also by Peter Robinson
The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
The Green Mile by Stephen King
The Hanging Valley by Peter Robinson
Gallows View also by Peter Robinson
The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
The Green Mile by Stephen King
5lilithcat
>3 ahef1963:
The first one? Yes, it's still on my shelves. Despite the title, it's actually a rather humorous, sarcastic, anti-death penalty book.
Examples:
If the spirit of mercy, indicated by the gigantic mass-petition mentioned, continues at the rate at which it has grown of recent years, there is no saying where it may end. We may even see the abolition of war. What a disaster that would be!
I often wonder if these abolitionist fully realize what they are up to, and that in this commercial and financial age they are endangering the bank balances of a whole host of people who are directly interested in hanging from a purely material point of view . . . Hemp-pickers, rope-manufacturers, carpenters, painters, boltmakers, the makers of eyelets for the hangman's rope, printers who print the Book of Prayer used for the Burial Service of condemned men, lime merchants who proved the lime in which hanged convicts are often buried, and a host of others too numerous to mention would suffer severe financial losses if hanging were abolished in this realm.
Etc.
It was first published in 1928; mine is the New and Enlarged Edition of 1938.
The first one? Yes, it's still on my shelves. Despite the title, it's actually a rather humorous, sarcastic, anti-death penalty book.
Examples:
If the spirit of mercy, indicated by the gigantic mass-petition mentioned, continues at the rate at which it has grown of recent years, there is no saying where it may end. We may even see the abolition of war. What a disaster that would be!
I often wonder if these abolitionist fully realize what they are up to, and that in this commercial and financial age they are endangering the bank balances of a whole host of people who are directly interested in hanging from a purely material point of view . . . Hemp-pickers, rope-manufacturers, carpenters, painters, boltmakers, the makers of eyelets for the hangman's rope, printers who print the Book of Prayer used for the Burial Service of condemned men, lime merchants who proved the lime in which hanged convicts are often buried, and a host of others too numerous to mention would suffer severe financial losses if hanging were abolished in this realm.
Etc.
It was first published in 1928; mine is the New and Enlarged Edition of 1938.
6rolandperkins
La Rebelión de los Colgados = "The Rebellion of the Hanged" by B. Traven
The Autobiography of an Execution by David Dow
Scenes from an Execution; (a play) by Howard Barker
Garrote Vil = "Common Gallows"#
by Ramon Maria de Valle-Inclan
Gallows Humor*, (a comedy) by Jack Richardson
#Not guaranteeing that there is an English translation of this.
*not guaranteeing that any of these, except possibly (5) has any humor in it.
The Autobiography of an Execution by David Dow
Scenes from an Execution; (a play) by Howard Barker
Garrote Vil = "Common Gallows"#
by Ramon Maria de Valle-Inclan
Gallows Humor*, (a comedy) by Jack Richardson
#Not guaranteeing that there is an English translation of this.
*not guaranteeing that any of these, except possibly (5) has any humor in it.
8rolandperkins
The Execution of Private Slovak
by William Bradford Huie
El Presidente Colgado = "The Hanged President:*
by Augusto Cespedes
*(not guaranteeing that there is any English translation of this)
Before they are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
Present at a Hanging and other Ghost Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Heir to an Execution (2004 Film) by Ivy Meeropol
by William Bradford Huie
El Presidente Colgado = "The Hanged President:*
by Augusto Cespedes
*(not guaranteeing that there is any English translation of this)
Before they are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
Present at a Hanging and other Ghost Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Heir to an Execution (2004 Film) by Ivy Meeropol
