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Author : Eustace Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552372494
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (724 download)
Download or read book A Hanging is Announced written by Eustace Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eustace James Palmer
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781448926527
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (265 download)
Download or read book A Hanging Is Announced written by Eustace James Palmer and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Hanging Is Announced, a Peace Corps volunteer to the country of Sierra Leone joins a kind of carnival that he later finds out has been caused by crowds jostling to catch glimpses of corpses of five young men who have been executed for murder. An attorney for the defense tells him their stories as he had heard it from the condemned. The reader comes to understand the circumstances that led five young men, some of them quite promising, to murder and the gallows. The same events are seen from five different and, at times, conflicting points of view.
Author : Petra Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004124219
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (242 download)
Download or read book Capital Punishment in Japan written by Petra Schmidt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the system, challenges traditional views and arguments and seeks the real reasons behind the retention of capital punishment in Japan.
Author : Arundhati Roy
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9386057549
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament written by Arundhati Roy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by a few heavily armed men. Eleven years later, we still do not know who was behind the attack, nor the identity of the attackers. Both the Delhi high court and the Supreme Court of India have noted that the police violated legal safeguards, fabricated evidence and extracted false confessions. Yet, on 9 February 2013, one man, Mohammad Afzal Guru, was hanged to ‘satisfy’ the ‘collective conscience’ of society. This updated reader brings together essays by lawyers, academics, journalists and writers who have looked closely at the available facts and who have raised serious questions about the investigations and the trial. This new version examines the implications of Mohammad Afzal Guru’s hanging and what it says about the Indian government’s relationship with Kashmir.
Author : Grace Larson
Publisher : Urlink Print & Media, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781647537999
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Montana's Last Hanging written by Grace Larson and published by Urlink Print & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montana's last hanging was September 10, 1943. The state's last hanging in Missoula in 1943 was also the state's last execution for 52 years. Montana didn't execute another inmate until 1995, when Duncan McKenzie was executed by lethal injection after spending 20 years on death row. Today, lethal injection is the only death sentence method allowed in the state, and McKenzie's execution was the last time it was used.
Author : Irene Quenzler Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674249240
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler written by Irene Quenzler Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1806 an anxious crowd of thousands descended upon Lenox, Massachusetts, for the public hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Betsy. Not all witnesses believed justice had triumphed. The death penalty had become controversial; no one had been executed for rape in Massachusetts in more than a quarter century. Wheeler maintained his innocence. Over one hundred local citizens petitioned for his pardon--including, most remarkably, Betsy and her mother. Impoverished, illiterate, a failed farmer who married into a mixed-race family and clashed routinely with his wife, Wheeler existed on the margins of society. Using the trial report to reconstruct the tragic crime and drawing on Wheeler's jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history, Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America. They imaginatively and sensitively explore issues of family violence, poverty, gender, race and class, religion, and capital punishment, revealing similarities between death penalty politics in America today and two hundred years ago. Beautifully crafted, engagingly written, this unforgettable story probes deeply held beliefs about morality and about the nature of justice.
Author : Carol S. Steiker
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786433257
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Comparative Capital Punishment written by Carol S. Steiker and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Capital Punishment offers a set of in-depth, critical and comparative contributions addressing death practices around the world. Despite the dramatic decline of the death penalty in the last half of the twentieth century, capital punishment remains in force in a substantial number of countries around the globe. This research handbook explores both the forces behind the stunning recent rejection of the death penalty, as well as the changing shape of capital practices where it is retained. The expert contributors address the social, political, economic, and cultural influences on both retention and abolition of the death penalty and consider the distinctive possibilities and pathways to worldwide abolition.
Author : Caitlin Rother
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806540907
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Death on Ocean Boulevard written by Caitlin Rother and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[This] is one of the great crime mysteries of modern times. It took an author of Caitlin Rother’s caliber to bring it into sharp focus. A riveting read.” —Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author “I got a girl, hung herself in the guest house.” The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned by pharmaceutical tycoon and multimillionaire Jonah Shacknai. When authorities arrived, they found the naked body of Jonah’s girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, gagged, her ankles tied and her wrists bound behind her. Jonah’s brother, Adam, claimed to have found Rebecca hanging by a rope from the second-floor balcony. On a bedroom door in black paint were the cryptic words: SHE SAVED HIM CAN YOU SAVE HER. Was this scrawled message a suicide note or a killer’s taunt? Rebecca’s death came two days after Jonah’s six-year-old son, Max, took a devastating fall while in Rebecca’s care. Authorities deemed Rebecca’s death a suicide resulting from her guilt. But who would stage either a suicide ora murder in such a bizarre, elaborate way? Award-winning investigative journalist Caitlin Rother weaves stunning new details into a personal yet objective examination of the sensational case. She explores its many layers—including the civil suit in which a jury found Adam Shacknai responsible for Rebecca’s death, and the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department bombshell decision to reconfirm its original findings. As compelling as it is troubling, this controversial real-life mystery is a classic American tragedy that evokes the same haunting fascination as the JonBenet Ramsey and O.J. Simpson cases. “Rother’s meticulous journalism shines through in this authoritative account of the Rebecca Zahau death incident. If you think you know this case, think again. And read this book.” —Katherine Ramsland, professor of forensic psychology and author of The Psychology of Death Investigations
Author : Charles Duff
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322677
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (226 download)
Download or read book A Handbook on Hanging written by Charles Duff and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 1999-10-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848585128
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Societies throughout history have adopted many and varied methods of meting out the ultimate sanction of capital punishment to their more unruly members. Although a number of countries across the globe still execute their own citizens, on occasion in public, the modern world in general views execution with distaste, and public execution doubl...
Author : C. L. Bragg
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611177197
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Martyr of the American Revolution written by C. L. Bragg and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This military history examines the complex factors surrounding the execution of an American militia colonel in British-occupied Charleston, SC. South Carolina patriot militiamen played an integral role in helping the Continental army reclaim their state from its British conquerors. In Martyr of the American Revolution, Cordell L. Bragg, III, examines the events that set Col. Isaac Hayne into a disastrous conflict with two British officers, his execution in Charleston, and the repercussions that extended from South Carolina to the Continental Congress and the halls of British Parliament. Hayne was the most prominent American executed by the British for treason. He and his two principal antagonists, Lt. Col. Nisbet Balfour and Lt. Col. Francis Lord Rawdon, were unwittingly set on a collision course that climaxed in an act that sparked one of the war’s most notable controversies. Martyr of the American Revolution sheds light on why two professional soldiers were driven to commit a seemingly arbitrary deed that halted prisoner exchange and nearly brought disastrous consequences to captive British officers. The death of a patriot in the cause of liberty was not a unique occurrence, but the unusually well-documented events surrounding the execution of Hayne and the involvement of his friends and family makes his story compelling and poignant. Unlike young Capt. Nathan Hale, who suffered a similar fate in 1776, Hayne did not become a folk hero. Yet his execution became an international affair debated in both Parliament and the Continental Congress.
Author : Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319779087
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse written by Sarah Tarlow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.
Author : Society for Pure English
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Preliminary Announcement written by Society for Pure English and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William J. Chambliss
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412978564
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Corrections written by William J. Chambliss and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Criminal Justice – Law Enforcement 105046 and Professional Studies 105045 programs.
Author : Tony Parsons
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250052718
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Hanging Club written by Tony Parsons and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A band of vigilante executioners roam the hot summer nights, abducting evil men who they judge unworthy of living and hanging them by the neck until dead. Sentenced to death is the gang member who abused dozens of vulnerable girls, the wealthy drunk driver who mowed down a child, the drug addict who put a pensioner in a coma and the hate preacher calling for the murder of British troops. But do these rogue hangmen crave true justice—or just blood? As the bodies pile up and violence explodes all over the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe—dog lover, single parent, defender of the weak—embarks on his most dangerous investigation yet, hunting a righteous gang of vigilante killers who many believe to be heroes. The search will take Max from squalid backstreets, where religious fanaticism breeds, to mansions in mourning and all the way to the secret rooms of power where decisions are weighed about life and death. But before The Hanging Club is confronted, Max Wolfe must learn some painful truths about the fragile line between good and evil, innocence and guilt, justice and retribution. And discover that the lust for revenge starts very close to home.
Author : Perry Thomas Ryan
Publisher : Perry t Ryan
ISBN 13 : 9780962550447
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Last Public Execution in America written by Perry Thomas Ryan and published by Perry t Ryan. This book was released on 1992 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 14, 1936, Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, before a crowd of 20,000. The public outrage which followed resulted in the complete abolition of public executions in the United States. This site provides the complete text of the book, The Last Public Execution in America.
Author : Derek Hansen
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781466263680
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (636 download)
Download or read book The Ultimate Hang written by Derek Hansen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hammock camping--one of the most comfortable ways to enjoy a long-distance thru-hike, a weekend backpacking trip, or just an overnight in the woods. With more than 200 illustrations to guide you, this book helps you get off the ground to discover the freedom, comfort, and convenience of hammock camping. Learn how to set up and use a hammock to stay dry, warm, and bug free in a Leave No Trace-friendly way. This book covers hammock camping basics such as how to get a perfect hang and how to stay dry, warm, and bug free. Plus, it illustrates techniques and tips to get the most out of a hammock shelter, whether you have purchased an all-in-one kit or you've assembled your own customized system.
