A Handbook on Hanging
Charles Duff
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.
Рік:
1999
Видання:
New ed
Видавництво:
NYRB Classics
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
232
ISBN 10:
0940322676
ISBN 13:
9780940322677
Файл:
PDF, 20.21 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1999