EXECUTION A Guide to the Ultimate Penalty

Abbott (Geoffrey)

ISBN 10: 184024433X ISBN 13: 9781840244335

Editorial: Summersdale, 2005

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Softcover. 2nd Edn. SIGNED. First published as 'The Book of Execution'. A gruesomely fascinating account of methods of judicial execution from around the world and through the ages, and includes such hair-raising categories as death by cannibalism, being sewn into an animal's belly and a thousand cuts. In his own darkly humorous style, the author describes the instruments used and their effectiveness, and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as 'gone west' or 'drawn a blank', as well as the jargon of the underworld. From the preparation of the victim to the disposal of the body, this book answers all the questions you are ever likely to ask, and some you would never want to imagine. Illus., Appendices + Select Bibliog. 288pp. 8vo. softcover. With tipped-in label INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Vg+.

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T�tulo

EXECUTION A Guide to the Ultimate Penalty

Editor

Summersdale

Fecha de publicaci�n

2005

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

184024433X

ISBN 13

9781840244335

Encuadernaci�n

Softcover / Paperback

Edici�n

2nd edition.

Estado

Very Good

Firmado

signed and inscribed by author

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Capital Punishment/Penology

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Execution is a gruesomely fascinating catalogue of methods of judicial execution from around the world and through the ages. In his own humorous style, Geoffrey Abbott describes in detail the instruments used, past and present, and charts the evolution of their construction, operation techniques and effectiveness. He reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as 'gone west' or 'drawn a blank' and explains the jargon of the underworld. From the preparation of the victim for his fate to the disposal of the body, Execution answers all the questions you are every likely to ask on this grisly subject, and some you would never want to imagine.

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Geoffrey Abbott served in the RAF for 35 years before becoming a ‘Beefeater’ at the Tower of London. He wrote more than 24 books on torture and execution, appeared in numerous TV documentaries as consultant or executioner and, by invitation, wrote entries on torture and execution for the Encyclopedia Britannica. He once stood on the ‘drop’ trapdoors in the execution chamber of Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow (as a fact-finding author, not a convicted criminal!) and also experienced having a noose placed around his neck by a professional hangman – the late Sydney Dernley, a man endowed with a great, if macabre, sense of humour!

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