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A Handbook on Hanging

Charles Duff

出版	New York Review Books, 1999-10-31
主題	Political Science / GeneralSocial Science / CriminologySocial Science / Death & Dying
ISBN	09403226769780940322677
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xlrPD4Qwv6UC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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.