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| The Executioners: Taking a Life for a Life | 
 enlarge | Authors: Phil Robin Clarke, Liz Hardy, Anne Williams
Publisher: Futura Publications
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 18341
Media: Paperback
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0708804918
EAN: 9780708804919
ASIN: 0708804918
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Condition: Paperback in good condition - dispatched daily form UK, in a Jiffy Bag for protection
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Execution Past to Present October 4, 2008
This book tells the story of Judicial and Ritual Executions from pre history to the modern day.From "Bog Bodies", the Aztecs and the Inquisition to Lethal injection.The authors have created a book which holds the readers attention without being too gory.Little know facts are revealed, for instance I was unaware that Crucifixion was even reported in Cromwellian England.There is quite a bit about the Inquisition and its exponents including the infamous Torquemada.Modern and sometimes controversial subjects are mentioned, modern death by stoning, the electric chair,Gas chambers and even "botched" executions.A book for the student of history and the casual reader. The author's have put an interesting study about Capital Punishment and its exponents, from around the globe.Compact and excellent value.
Fascinating study of those who kill for the state. June 5, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you watched the recent documentary series on The Crime and Investigation Network about executioners in the UK, France and the USA, then this book is the logical progression if you want to learn more. The book starts at the earliest forms of execution such as crucifixion and stoning and comes right up to date with Lethal Injection. We learn that stoning was truly a death in the name of the people as the public would carry out the sentence. We learn about how reviled early British hangmen were and how there was an occasion where one executioner was pardoned from his own death sentence in order that he may use his skills to dispatch other condemned inmates. The children of French executioners generally married into the families of other French executioners and the Philippines was the only nation other than the USA to ever use the elctric chair as a means of executing there criminals. All these facts and hundreds more are contained within this fascinating book which looks at methods of execution and the people who carried out the sentences. Great value book and highly recommended.
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