Executioners. by and - 3 Angebote vergleichen

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Ebook for download.
True Crime, Some people kill for the sheer thrill of it, others for revenge or for financial gain. Executioners kill because the state employs them to do it but who chooses to be an executioner ... and why? This book investigates the history of capital punishment across the world, and the fascinating lives and careers of the people who are employed to deliver the ultimate penalty. 1) Early Forms of Execution 2) The Spanish Inquisition 3) The Witch Hunters 4) Impalement 5) Newgate Prison, London 6) Tyburn Gallows, London 7) The Guillotine 8) Hanged, Drawn and Quartered 9) The Electric Chair 10) The Gas Chamber 11) Lethal Injection, eBook.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, in-stock.
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.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
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