Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind
by Howard Engel
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Throughout the centuries, there has been no end to the imaginative methods the state has sanctioned to execute those people who have committed criminal acts. Engel takes a macabre trip into the world of our legal merchants of death.Tags
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A rather enlightening look at the career of executioner. Surprising revelations on how the position is looked upon. Some disturbing details about the processes and biographical info on the 'superstars' and the notoriously bad of the job field. A must read for anyone with a morbid interest.
a popular, anecdotal, enjoyable review of executioners.
Sep 18, 2005Dutch
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Howard Engel was born on April 2, 1931; he is a Canadian mystery writer, author of the Benny Cooperman Mysteries. He has won numerous awards thanks to his literary works, such as the Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction and the Crime Writers of Canada Derick Murdoch Award. In 2013, Engel received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal. (Bowker show more Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1996
- Dedication
- To Kildare Dobbs and David Mason
- First words
- By and large, executioners have not been personages of noble rank and title.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)All men and women whom I have faced at that final moment convince me that in what I have done I have not prevented a single murder.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 364.66 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Punishment Death penalty
- LCC
- HV8551 .E54 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminal justice administration Penology. Prisons. Corrections
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
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