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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Handbook On Hanging
• Author: Charles Duff
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9780940322677
• ISBN: 0940322676
• ID: 04948571
• Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
• Weight: 246 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. October 1999

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