Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind by Howard Engel

Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

Howard Engel

256 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime dark slow-paced
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A grisly tour of hangings, electrocutions, beheadings—and other state-sanctioned deaths that are part of the long history of the death penalty. In Lord High Executioner, award-winning writer Howard Engel traces the traditions of capital punishment...

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