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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044362510
Author : Arthur Koestler,Cecil Hewitt Rolph
Publisher : [Harmondsworth, Eng.] : Penguin Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : UOM:39015001030132
Author : George Wilhite
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Ghostly goings-on at an old west ranch expose a dastardly murder and bring justice for the victim.
Author : Negley King Teeters,Jack H. Hedblom
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034927264
Author : A Member of the New York Bar
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1357512295
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0259810622
Excerpt from "Hanged by the Neck Until You Be Dead," or Why the Death Sentence Should Be Abolished: By a Member of the New York Bar Murder among the Goths in Sweden and Denmark - Case of John Roose - Coke's definition of murder - Blackstone's com ments and opinion of murder - Cases of Lord Stafford and Lord Russell - Case of the Shears brothers - Execution for trivial offences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780820369747
Reflections on Hanging is a searing indictment of capital punishment, inspired by its author’s own time in the shadow of a firing squad. During the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler was held by the Franco regime as a political prisoner, and condemned to death. He was freed, but only after months of witnessing the fates of less-fortunate inmates. That experience informs every page of the book, which was first published in England in 1956, and followed in 1957 by this American edition. As Koestler ranges across the history of capital punishment in Britain (with a focus on hanging), he looks at notable cases and rulings, and portrays politicians, judges, lawyers, scholars, clergymen, doctors, police, jailers, prisoners, and others involved in the long debate over the justness and effectiveness of the death penalty. In Britain, Reflections on Hanging was part of a concerted, ultimately successful effort to abolish the death penalty. At that time, in the forty-eight United States, capital punishment was sanctioned in forty-two of them, with hanging still practiced in five. This edition includes a preface and afterword written especially for the 1957 American edition. The preface makes the book relevant to readers in the U.S.; the afterword overviews the modern-day history of abolitionist legislation in the British Parliament. Reflections on Hanging is relentless, biting, and unsparing in its details of botched and unjust executions. It is a classic work of advocacy for some of society’s most defenseless members, a critique of capital punishment that is still widely cited, and an enduring work that presaged such contemporary problems as the sensationalism of crime, the wrongful condemnation of the innocent and mentally ill, the callousness of penal systems, and the use of fear to control a citizenry.
Author : Robert Bartlett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691126043
Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise, Cragh later proved to be very much alive, his resurrection attributed to the saintly entreaties of the defunct Bishop Thomas de Cantilupe. The Hanged Man tells the story of this putative miracle--why it happened, what it meant, and how we know about it. The nine eyewitness accounts live on in the transcripts of de Cantilupe's canonization hearings, and these previously unexamined documents contribute not only to an enthralling mystery, but to an unprecedented glimpse into the day-to-day workings of medieval society. While unraveling the haunting tale of the hanged man, Robert Bartlett leads us deeply into the world of lords, rebels, churchmen, papal inquisitors, and other individuals living at the time of conflict and conquest in Wales. In the process, he reconstructs voices that others have failed to find. We hear from the lady of the castle where the hanged man was imprisoned, the laborer who watched the execution, the French bishop charged with investigating the case, and scores of other members of the medieval citizenry. Brimming with the intrigue of a detective novel, The Hanged Man will appeal to both scholars of medieval history and general readers alike.
Author : Jack Shuler
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610391375
The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America. The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one that is all too deeply connected to America's past—and present. The last man to be hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, who was executed in Delaware in 1996 for committing a double murder. Even today, hanging is still legal, in certain situations, in New Hampshire and Washington. And the noose remains a potent cultural symbol. An incident in Jena, Louisiana, in 2006, in which nooses were used to menace black students, made national news. Yet little has changed: according to author Jack Shuler, there have been nearly 100 “noose incidents” just in the last two years. The Thirteenth Turn unravels these stories, from Judas Iscariot, perhaps the most infamous hanged man, to the killing of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the murderers at the heart of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and beyond. In his travels across America, Shuler traces the evolution of this dark practice. As he investigates the death of John Brown, or the 1930 lynching that inspired the song “Strange Fruit,” he finds that the very places that perpetrated these acts now seek to forget them. Shuler's account is a kind of shadow history of America: a reminder that vigilantes and hangmen play a crucial role in our national story. The Thirteenth Turn is a courageous and searching book that reminds us where we come from, and what is lost if we forget.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1804470880
George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels of all time, this new series of his essays seeks to bring his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. A Hanging, the ninth in the Orwell's Essays series, tells the story of the execution of an unnamed convict in Burma. With the veracity of the story unknown, but thought to be loosely based on Orwell's own experiences in Burma, the haunting tale leaves the reader contemplating the heavy topic of colonialism, and the right of one to take the life of another.
Author : Perry Deane Young
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595362943
Remembered as a tall tale from childhood, author Young takes a look at the true story of Stephen/Steven Effler hanged for murdering his wife after Joshua Young has a dream about it and questions her death. Presented are the legends, the facts, and the family history.
Author : Leonid Andreyev
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241252147
'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.' This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony Briggs, probes the emotions and experiences of seven people condemned to death in Tsarist Russia. A powerful and subtle exploration of the morality of capital punishment, it was a bestseller at the time, and, in a strange quirk of history, influenced the conspirators in the cataclysmic assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Author : Henry Kane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440541384
Peter Chambers is a private richard who has a real affinity for trouble. He hasn't any notion at all who polished off the nasty blonde with the round hole between her eyes—or the little man swinging by the neck from a bedroom window. Peter has strong incentives for finding out the answers—partly because the only thing he can do is break the case wide open before the going gets too rough; but mainly because his fee is Miami Moonbeam, six feet of ravishing, red-haired woman.
Author : Steve Fielding
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780750953375
Over the years the high walls of Liverpool's Walton Gaol have contained some of the most infamous criminals from the north of England. Taking over from the fearsome Kirkdale House of Correction as the main centre of execution for Liverpool and other parts of Lancashire and neighbouring counties, a total of sixty-two murderers paid the ultimate penalty here.The history of execution at Walton began with the hanging of an Oldham nurse in 1887, and over the next seventy years many infamous criminals took the short walk to the gallows here. They include Blackburn child killer Peter Griffiths, whose guilt was secured following a massive fingerprint operation; Liverpool's Sack Murderer George Ball; George Kelly, since cleared of the Cameo Cinema murders, as well as scores of forgotten criminals: soldiers, gangsters, cut-throat killers and many more. Steve Fielding has fully researched all these cases, and they are collected here in one volume for the first time. Infamous executioners also played a part in the gaol's history. James Berry of Bradford was the first to officiate here, followed in due course by the Billington family of Bolton, Rochdale barber John Ellis and three members of the well-known Pierrepoint family, whose names appeared on the official Home Office list for over half a century. In 1964 one of the last two executions in the county took place at Liverpool. Fully illustrated with photographs, new cuttings and engravings, Hanged at Liverpool is bound to appeal to anyone interested in the darker side of both Liverpool and the north of England's history.
Author : George Frederick Shrady,Thomas Lathrop Stedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015014700929