A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution by Charles Duff

A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution

Charles Duff

208 pages • first pub 1927 (editions)

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A 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 a...

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