| A Handbook on Hanging Contributor(s): Duff, Charles (Author), Hitchens, Christopher (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0940322676 ISBN-13: 9780940322677 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1999 Annotation: "A Handbook on Hanging" is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - Social Science | Criminology - Social Science | Penology |
| Dewey: 364.66 |
| LCCN: 00011088 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.01" W x 8" (0.40 lbs) 232 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing. |