Execution: A Guide to the Ultimate Penalty

Geoffrey Abbott

ISBN 10: 184024433X / ISBN 13: 9781840244335

Published by Summersdale Publishers, 2005

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Traces d'usure sur la couverture. Petite(s) trace(s) de pliure sur la couverture. Salissures sur la tranche. Pages cornées. Edition 2005. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Acceptable. Signs of wear on the cover. Slightly creased cover. Stains on the edge. Dog-eared pages. Edition 2005. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Execution: A Guide to the Ultimate Penalty
• Publisher: Summersdale Publishers
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184024433X
• ISBN 13: 9781840244335
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Moyen

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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!