Hang by the Neck by Nesley K. Teeters, Jack Hedblom (.PDF)
File Size: 99.6 MB
Hang by the Neck: The Legal Use of the Scaffold and Noose, Gibbet, Stake and Firing Squad from Colonial Times to the Present by Nesley K. Teeters, Jack Hedblom
Requirements: .PDF reader, 99.6 MB
Overview: Here are almost 500 pages about men, women, and children being drawn, quartered, hung, electrocuted, and otherwise put to death. All of it appears on paper so glazed that light bounces off, making it difficult to read. Chapter titles and subheads tell the story: Hanging as a Social Practice, First Hangings in the Country, The Youngest Victims of the Tree, Types of Early Gallows, Status of the Hangman, Gibbeting, Pressed to Death, Burning at the Stake, Excessive Retribution and Puritanical Zeal in Early Days, The Smutty Nose Murder Case, and so forth. A thorough book, it is one that informs. The library that lacks it won’t be enough help when scholars seek the sad story of how man killed and killed in the long, fruitless effort to produce enlightenment by engaging in horror.”Hang By the Neck” is well written too, and it contains passages I could quote as illustrative of this, and of how informative the book is. Alas—”No part of it may be reproduced in any manner without written permission from the publisher.” Sorry about those chapter headings I quoted, Charles C Thomas of Springfield, III. Don’t draw and quarter me, though—I wanted to explain your book, not steal your precious words. Now, having seen your edict, I will say no more, except “Up the authors!” They have spared us no detail.
Philadelphia MICHAEL VON MOSCHZISKER
Published April 1, 1969 by Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
Free Download links: