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The Executioners Bible

Author : Steve Fielding
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844546489
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book The Executioners Bible written by Steve Fielding and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been just over 40 years since a gallows was last used in Great Britain, and the secrets behind the men who pulled the lever and dropped the condemned to their deaths are still shrouded in mystery. This account tells the story of the working-class men who carried out this profession until its abolition in the late 1960s. The hangman's rope was part of an exact science, and in their day, the men who undertook the job assumed the profiles of infamous celebrities, their reputations often rivaling the notorious criminals they were charged with dispatching. From the bungling hangmen sacked for incompetence and those driven to guilt-ridden suicide to the last to pull the lever at the height of the swinging sixties, the secrets of this form of capital punishment are finally revealed. They were the last of their kind, the hangmen of the 20th century; and this is their fascinating, sometimes repugnant, always enthralling story.

The Executioner Series Books 1–3

Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504041437
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Executioner Series Books 1–3 written by Don Pendleton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing “action adventure icon” Mack Bolan as he wages a one-man war against the Mafia—in the first three books of the million-selling series (Los Angeles Times). In the jungles of Southeast Asia, no sniper was more ruthless than Mack Bolan. After twelve years in-country, with ninety-five confirmed kills, the Special Forces sergeant returns to the United States only to find that his father has gone berserk, slaughtering his family before taking his own life. But Bolan knows his old man was no killer: He was under pressure from a gang of Mafia thugs who were after his money—and willing to destroy his life to get it. For the sake of his father, Bolan declares war on the men who drove him mad . . . Now in one volume, these are the first three action-packed novels in the long-running series that has sold more than 200 million copies. If you’re a fan of Rambo, James Bond, or Jack Reacher, it’s time to meet the one and only Mack Bolan—an elite operative with a haunted past pitted against legions of mobsters no one else can take down.

Executioner's Current

Author : Richard Moran
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425800
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Executioner's Current written by Richard Moran and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "fascinating and provocative" story (The Washington Post) of high stakes competition between two titans that shows how the electric chair developed through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other. In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity” when he illuminated Manhattan’s Pearl Street with his direct current (DC) system. Six years later, George Westinghouse lit up Buffalo with his less expensive alternating current (AC). The two men quickly became locked in a fierce rivalry, made all the more complicated by a novel new application for their product: the electric chair. When Edison set out to persuade the state of New York to use Westinghouse’s current to execute condemned criminals, Westinghouse fought back in court, attempting to stop the first electrocution and keep AC from becoming the “executioner’s current.” In this meticulously researched account of the ensuing legal battle and the horribly botched first execution, Moran raises disturbing questions not only about electrocution, but about about our society’s tendency to rely on new technologies to answer moral questions.

Joe Hill

Author : Franklin Rosemont
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629632104
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Joe Hill written by Franklin Rosemont and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill. It is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture that killed him. Many aspects of the life and lore of Joe Hill receive their first and only discussion in IWW historian Franklin Rosemont’s opus. In great detail, the issues that Joe Hill raised and grappled with in his life: capitalism, white supremacy, gender, religion, wilderness, law, prison, and industrial unionism are shown in both the context of Hill’s life and for their enduring relevance in the century since his death. Collected too is Joe Hill’s art, plus scores of other images featuring Hill-inspired art by IWW illustrators from Ralph Chaplin to Carlos Cortez, as well as contributions from many other labor artists. As Rosemont suggests in this remarkable book, Joe Hill never really died. He lives in the minds of young (and old) rebels as long as his songs are sung, his ideas are circulated, and his political descendants keep fighting for a better day.

My Experiences as an Executioner

Author : James Berry
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book My Experiences as an Executioner written by James Berry and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Berry's book, 'My Experiences as an Executioner,' delves into the dark and morbid world of capital punishment through the eyes of a seasoned executioner. Berry's writing is straightforward and devoid of unnecessary embellishment, reflecting the harsh realities of his profession. The book provides a glimpse into the psychological toll of taking human lives in the name of justice, offering a unique perspective on a controversial practice. Set against the backdrop of a time when public executions were common, Berry's narrative serves as a chilling reminder of the consequences of violence and the cost of administering justice. His stark prose and attention to detail create a haunting account of life and death in the executioner's domain. James Berry's personal experiences as an executioner shape the narrative of his book, shedding light on the moral and ethical dilemmas faced by those who carry out society's most unforgiving duties. His insights into the inner workings of the executioner's mind reveal the complexities of a role often shrouded in secrecy and taboo. With 'My Experiences as an Executioner,' Berry challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths about the justice system and the individuals tasked with enforcing it. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the historical and psychological aspects of capital punishment, offering a rare glimpse into a world few dare to explore.

Unwilling Executioner

Author : Andrew Pepper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191025313
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Unwilling Executioner written by Andrew Pepper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What gives crime fiction its distinctive shape and form? What makes it such a compelling vehicle of social and political critique? Unwilling Executioner argues that the answer lies in the emerging genre's complex and intimate relationship with the bureaucratic state and modern capitalism, and the contradictions that ensue once the state assumes control of the criminal justice system. This study offers a dramatic new interpretation of the genre's emergence and evolution over a three hundred year period and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. From its roots in the tales of criminality circulated widely in Paris and London in the early eighteenth century, this book examines the extraordinary richness, diversity and complexity of the genre's subsequent thematizations of crime and policing—moving from France and Britain and from continental Europe and the United States to other parts of the globe. In doing so it offers new ways of reading established crime novelists like Gaboriau, Doyle, Hammett, and Simenon, beyond their national contexts and an impulse to characterize their work as either straightforwardly 'radical' or 'conservative'. It also argues for the centrality of writers like Defoe, Gay, Godwin, Vidocq, Morrison, and more recently Manchette, Himes, and Sjöwall and Wahlöö to a project where crime and policing are rooted, and shown to be rooted, in the social and economic conditions of their time. These are all deeply political writers even if their novels exhibit no interest in directly promoting political causes or parties. The result is an agile, layered, and far-reaching account of the crime story's ambivalent relationship to the justice system and its move to complicate our understanding of what crime is and how society is policed and for whose benefit.

Rebel Voices

Author : Joyce L. Kornbluh
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1604868449
Total Pages : 1426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Rebel Voices written by Joyce L. Kornbluh and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcoming women, Blacks, and immigrants long before most other unions, the Wobblies from the start were labor’s outstanding pioneers and innovators, unionizing hundreds of thousands of workers previously regarded as “unorganizable.” Wobblies organized the first sit-down strike (at General Electric, Schenectady, 1906), the first major auto strike (6,000 Studebaker workers, Detroit, 1911), the first strike to shut down all three coalfields in Colorado (1927), and the first “no-fare” transit-workers’ job-action (Cleveland, 1944). With their imaginative, colorful, and world-famous strikes and free-speech fights, the IWW wrote many of the brightest pages in the annals of working class emancipation. Wobblies also made immense and invaluable contributions to workers’ culture. All but a few of America’s most popular labor songs are Wobbly songs. IWW cartoons have long been recognized as labor’s finest and funniest. The impact of the IWW has reverberated far beyond the ranks of organized labor. An important influence on the 1960s New Left, the Wobbly theory and practice of direct action, solidarity, and “class-war” humor have inspired several generations of civil rights and antiwar activists, and are a major source of ideas and inspiration for today’s radicals. Indeed, virtually every movement seeking to “make this planet a good place to live” (to quote an old Wobbly slogan), has drawn on the IWW’s incomparable experience. Originally published in 1964 and long out of print, Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art, and lore. This new edition includes 40 pages of additional material from the 1998 Charles H. Kerr edition from Fred Thompson and Franklin Rosemont, and a new preface by Wobbly organizer Daniel Gross.

The Executioner

Author : Artie McFerrin
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480809322
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Executioner written by Artie McFerrin and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Executioner, Artie McFerrin has taken personal leadership development to a new level. Dr. Richard Cummins, director, Corps of Cadets Leadership Excellence Program at Texas A&M University Being able to learn from someone who has proven his exceptional entrepreneurship and leadership has made me more comfortable in making executive decisions. It is a must-read for any CEO. Nancy Gaudet, owner and CEO of Gaudet Solutions A very powerful self-help book that outlines exactly how to become successful at your own dreams. Chuck Royston, mission evaluation room engineer, NASA This is a fascinating and extremely valuable trip inside the mindand the success-building habitsof one of Americas most successful entrepreneurs. . . . Like a positive mental attitude coupled with a creative plan, Arties book will change lives. Bill Moore, partner, Enoch Kever Law Firm; former general counsel, TXU Energy In his earthy and understandable style built from his own learning and experience, Artie has captured in The Executioner a great roadmap for being successful in business whether it is as the CEO of a start-up company, or as the leader of an established operation looking to grow and improve. Dennis J. Seith, CEO INEOS Olefins and Polymers USA The Executioner is a comprehensive modernized update of the 1937 success classic, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill with the more effective nonconventional thinking, execution, and business practices since developed. Hill was unsurpassed in getting right the improved thinking, goals, and action needed for obtaining excellence. However, these near -invisible intangible success principles have remained very elusive to implement. The best business practices in most of the best books available today are also very elusive for most to implement well but for a different reason. These great practices identified dont work until you develop your thinking, habits, and ability to execute them like Hill promoted. The Executioner is a guide to excellence in developing your thinking, goals, positive mental attitude, courage, will-power, people, business, and mastery, and over-coming self-doubt.

Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK

Author : Monty Lord
Publisher : Young Legal Eagles
ISBN 13 : 1739748867
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK written by Monty Lord and published by Young Legal Eagles. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An endlessly fascinating journey through the extraordinary laws that have shaped every aspect of British society from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Impeccably researched and engagingly, often humorously written, it delivers so many jaw-dropping moments that I found it impossible to put down. A truly remarkable book.’ - Tracy Borman - Chief Curator for HM Historic Royal Palaces, Author, historian & broadcaster In the UK, we have some bizarre laws that have littered the statute books of our sceptred isle throughout history. Not all of them have been repealed over the centuries. Some of them made perfect sense at the time they were introduced but seen through modern eyes, now appear archaic and draconian. Despite the great efforts of the Law Commission in England and Wales to review and recommend reforms for many of these outdated laws, there are centuries of law that must be painstakingly gone through. As well as some bizarre laws, the UK also has its fair share of curious customs and time-honoured traditions that have been observed for centuries. On the surface, many appear to be nothing more than theatrical pomp and pageantry. However, they are all born from strong rationale. The UK parliament seems to have had a particular penchant for passing laws related to fish and animals, indecency and passing sentences with some humiliating public punishments. This book is a highly entertaining read for anyone who enjoys learning about the more bizarre applications of UK law throughout the centuries, along with some rather macabre consequences along the way. Have you ever heard a bizarre law and thought, that can’t possibly be true? Is it genuine? Was it ever in existence or just an urban myth that became so embellished over time? There are surprisingly, a great many laws still in existence on the statute books today, that would make your jaw drop. Whilst bizarre as these laws may now seem to us, it begs the question, are we in fact, unknowingly breaking these laws on a regular basis? For example… Is it illegal to cause a nuclear explosion? Are you required to talk to the police? Is Knock and Run illegal? Was it illegal to grow a beard? Do all swans belong to The King? …all these questions and more will be answered in this Volume 1 of a 3 volume series by Monty Lord. Reading this book, you may be inclined to laugh heartily, let out a sorrowful cry or recoil in abject horror at some of the more gruesome sentences passed for breaking these weird laws. With over 130 bizarre but nevertheless true, laws and customs, you can use this book to satisfy your curiosity about what our ancestors had to contend with over the years, or perhaps as a reference guide for trivia quizzes.

100 Greatest Video Game Characters

Author : Jaime Banks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442278137
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book 100 Greatest Video Game Characters written by Jaime Banks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though in existence for only a few decades, video games are now firmly established in mainstream culture all around the planet. Every year new games are produced, and every year new favorites emerge. But certain characters have become so iconic that they withstand both time and the shifting interests of players. Such creations permeate other elements of popular culture—from graphic novels to film—and are known not only to dedicated gamers but to the general public as well. In 100 Greatest Video Game Characters, readers can learn about some of the most popular and influential figures that have leapt from computer monitors and television screens and into the public consciousness. The entries in this volume provide general facts about the characters as well as explore their cultural significance. The entries include the following information: Game developer Year character was established Video game franchise In addition, the book examines the commonalities of various video game characters to help readers better understand their popularity and how they operate within the video games and the industry itself. Whether casually looking up information on video game characters or researching what these icons says about society, readers will enjoy this entertaining and informative volume. Comprehensive and engaging, 100 Greatest Video Game Characters will appeal to fans and scholars alike.

The Memoirs of a Prague Executioner

Author : Josef Svatek
Publisher : Sharpless House
ISBN 13 : 1434837874
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Memoirs of a Prague Executioner written by Josef Svatek and published by Sharpless House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man is about to graduate from medical school when a sudden shift of fate changes his life forever. He becomes stuck in the most detested profession for the rest of his life, and he is on his way to becoming the most well-known executioner in the history of Bohemia. Master Jan finds himself in the center of the historical events of the time. The religious and political turmoil of Bohemia culminates in the 1621 White Mountain Battle. Czech Protestant rebels are defeated by Catholic forces, and Master Jan is to execute 27 men who are his fellow Protestants... The Old Town Executioner gives the reader a first hand account about how justice was carried out by the medieval law. While his memoirs offer an intriguing account of the manners and values of late medieval society, his observations about human nature may come as a surprise. The law and society have changed since the 17th century, but people have changed very little.

Correspondence Respecting Swaziland

Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Correspondence Respecting Swaziland written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annals of the Propagation of the Faith

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Annals of the Propagation of the Faith written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?

Author : Sheldon Ekland-Olson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351585150
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides? written by Sheldon Ekland-Olson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides? looks at several of the most contentious issues in many societies. The book asks, whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time, and who makes those decisions? This book explores the fundamentally sociological processes which underlie the quest for morality and justice in human societies. The author sheds light on the social movements and social processes at the root of these seemingly personal moral questions. The third edition contains a new chapter on torture entitled, "Taking Life and Inflicting Suffering."

Capital Punishment

Author : Anne Rooney
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781410910677
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Capital Punishment written by Anne Rooney and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are corners of Earth where the conditions are so harsh it's hard to believe any life can be sustained there. This new series takes readers to smoldering deserts, towering mountains, frigid polar caps, the vastness of space, and the depths of the ocean, and introduces them to the people, plants, and animals that call these extreme environments home. Photos, maps, and exciting text transport readers to different extreme locations and show how living things are able to thrive against all odds.

Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections

Author : Rolando V. del Carmen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131752408X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections written by Rolando V. del Carmen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The briefs in this edition provide accurate and concise coverage of topics of vital importance to criminal justice personnel — prison law, probation, parole, the death penalty, juvenile justice, and sentencing. Each chapter contains an introduction to the topic area, making the book more user-friendly and a better source of succinct legal information than before.

Japan Through American Eyes

Author : Fred G Notehelfer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429979150
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Japan Through American Eyes written by Fred G Notehelfer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This abridgement of the unique journal of Francis Hall, America's leading business pioneer in nineteenth-century Japan, offers a remarkable view of the period leading to the Meiji Restoration. An upstate New York book dealer, Hall went to Japan in 1859 to collect material for a book on the country and to serve as correspondent for Horace Greely's New York Tribune. Seeing the opportunities for commerce in Yokohama, he helped found Walsh, Hall, and Co., an institution that became one of the most important American trading houses in Japan. Hall was a shrewd businessman, but also a perceptive recorder of life around him. Privately preserved for more than a hundred years, this document shows Hall to have been an astute observer and story-teller as well as an influential opinion-maker in the United States during the crucial decade of the American Civil War and the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. While contemporary American and British diplomatic accounts have focused on the official record, Hall reveals the private side of life in the treaty port. The publication of his journal, now in abridged form for the student and general reader, furnishes us with an insightful and sensitive portrayal of Japan on the eve of modernity.