The Book of Execution: An Encyclopedia of Methods of Judicial Execution - Softcover

Abbott, Geoffrey

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9780747245810: The Book of Execution: An Encyclopedia of Methods of Judicial Execution

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From the gruesomely familiar to the grisly and bizarre, this unique encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive history ever published of the "art" of execution -- the ultimate penalty. Details the many ingenious and seemingly incomprehensible means used through history, including the more familiar guillotine, stoning, and crucifixion, such less-known acts as sewing a victim into the belly of a dead animal, and such "modern" methods as lethal injection and the electric chair. Black-and-white illustrations.

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ISBN 10:  0747211213 ISBN 13:  9780747211211
Publisher: Headline, 1994
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