A Handbook on Hanging

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 10/31/1999
ISBN: 9780940322677
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.01w x 0.64d

Review Citations: Library Journal 04/01/2001 pg. 139