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The Executioners Bible

By Steven Fielding

Book information

Publisher
John Blake Publishing
Year
2008
ISBN
9781843586968, 9781843587194, 9781843587422, 9781844546480
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4095816 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-29 17:01:59
NonfictionTRU000000True Crime

Description

"The Executioner's Bible" tells the story of these working-class men who carried out this gruesome profession until its abolition in the late 1960's. Despite often being unassuming and quiet professionals, men like Albert Pierrepoint, William Billington and many other Chief and Assistant executioners made a name for themselves in a world hungry for salacious and gruesome news. Read about the bungling hangmen sacked for incompetence; drunken executioners dismissed for brawling; one hangman driven to suicide and another who 'got out just in time', to the last men to pull the lever at the height of the swinging sixties. They were the last of their kind: the hangmen of the 20th Century. And this is their fascinating sometimes repugnant, always enthralling story. The secrets of over six controversial decades of capital punishment are finally revealed.

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