Executioners: Taking a Life for a Life - Softcover

Clarke, Phil; Hardy, Liz; Williams, Anne; Robin Clarke, Phil

 
9780708804919: Executioners: Taking a Life for a Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0708804918 ISBN 13: 9780708804919
Verlag: Futura Publications, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Anglo-Saxon invaders first introduced hanging by the neck as capital punishment to England, and it was used by William the Conqueror as punishment for his conspirators. Other forms of formal execution over the years were carried out by lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad or the guillotine. The Pierrepoints were the most famous family of executioners. They took their job very seriously and were involved in around 800 executions, getting rid of murderers, spies and Nazis. William Marwood, a 19th-century cobbler, introduced the 'long drop' method of hanging which ensured that the prisoner's neck was broken instantly, which removed all the gruesome struggling and convulsions of previous methods.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

'Phil Robin Clarke has worked in the film business on Star Wars and Harry Potter, written screenplays and runs a script consultancy. Liz Hardy lives in Sussex.

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Verlag
Futura Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0708804918
ISBN 13 
9780708804919
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Anzahl der Seiten
512
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