A very deadly squib
- likely to upset the equanimity of upholders of capital punishment far more than any ponderous tome of high explosive A argument or invective.' Observer A Handbook on Hanging is a satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation: the hangman. With barbed wit, Charles Duff not only writes of hanging, but also of electrocution, decapitation & gassing; of innocent men executed & of executions botched; of bloodlust mobs & the political expedients of the great. A classic satire, admired by Bertholt Brecht & Dylan Thomas, Duff's polemic makes it clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be
- justice, vengeance, a deterrent
- it is certainly killing. This book has 208 pages & is 19.4cm x 12.6cm x 2cm