A Handbook on Hanging
Author: Charles Duff
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 1999-10-31
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780940322677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing.