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Drop Dead

Author : Lorna Poplak
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459738241
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Drop Dead written by Lorna Poplak and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-07-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shining a light on the dark history of hangings in Canada. Take a journey through notable cases in Canada’s criminal justice history, featuring well-known and some less-well-known figures from the past. You'll meet Arthur Ellis, Canada’s most famous hangman, whose work outfit was a frock coat and striped trousers, often with a flower pinned to his lapel. And you will also encounter other memorable characters, including the man who was hanged twice and the gun-toting bootlegger who was the only woman every executed in Alberta. Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada illustrates how trial, sentencing, and punishment operated in Canada’s first century, and examines the relevance of capital punishment today. Along the way, learn about the mathematics and physics behind hangings, as well as disturbing facts about bungled executions and wrongful convictions.

Double Trap

Author : John Melady
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550025716
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Double Trap written by John Melady and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-09-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1868, a man who robbed and killed a farmer and his family was hanged in Goderich. It was the last public hanging in Canada.

The Hanging of Angélique

Author : Afua Cooper
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820329401
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Hanging of Angélique written by Afua Cooper and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New light is shed on the largely misunderstood or ignored history of slavery in Canada through this portrait of slave Marie-Joseph Angelique, who in 1734 was arrested, tried, convicted, and executed for starting a fire that destroyed more than forty Montreal buildings. Simultaneous.

The Practice of Execution in Canada

Author : Ken Leyton-Brown
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774859326
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Practice of Execution in Canada written by Ken Leyton-Brown and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is easy to forget that the death penalty was an accepted aspect of Canadian culture and criminal justice until 1976. The Practice of Execution in Canada is not about what led some to the gallows and others to escape it. Rather, it examines how the routine rituals and practices of execution can be seen as a crucial social institution. Drawing on hundreds of case files, Ken Leyton-Brown shows that from trial to interment, the practice of execution was constrained by law and tradition. Despite this, however, the institution was not rigid. Criticism and reform pushed executions out of the public eye, and in so doing, stripped them of meaningful ritual and made them more vulnerable to criticism.

Walk Towards the Gallows

Author : Tom Mitchell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442692146
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Walk Towards the Gallows written by Tom Mitchell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-02-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime. Blake unintentionally left a remarkable documentary record, ranging from Poorhouse records, courts dockets of custody and criminal cases in which she was the central figure, popular, journalistic, and professional assessments of her character, and a poem, 'My Downfall', that she penned in Brandon Gaol while awaiting execution. To explain why Hilda bought a gun and why she fired it, Kramer and Mitchell employee both historical and literary techniques. The result is a richly textured story of late Victorian social, cultural, and political life. This remarkable book - part mystery, part historical detective story - uncovers Hilda Blake's life, from her origins in Norfolk, England, to her tragic death. It also examines the lives of other principals in the story: successful Brandon businessman Robert Lane and his wife Mary, the murdered woman; Lane's business partner, Alexander McIlvride; Police Chief James Kircaldy; A.P. Stewart and his wife, Letitia Singer Stewart, the family for whom the 12-year-old orphaned Hilda first worked as a domestic servant; Rev. C.C. McLaurin, the Baptist minister who knew Hilda and counselled the condemned woman in her final days; social purity activist Dr Amelia Yeomans, who petitioned for clemency; Governor-General Minto, who urged the Laurier government to stay the execution, even Clifford Sifton, the MP from Brandon, federal minister of Immigration, and the most powerful western Liberal in the Laurier cabinet, for whom the case was a potential minefield. As the authors write, 'We tell a story because only a story can expose the real workings of a culture, and only a story can express our protest against time.'

Double Trap

Author : John Melady
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 155002907X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Double Trap written by John Melady and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-09-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen years before the Black Donnellys were butchered at Lucan, Ontario, another murderous rampage took place a few miles away. On June 6, 1868, three men robbed and killed a rich farmer, his wife, and her unborn child. They concocted an alibi, stuck to it, and almost got off. In fact, two of them did. The third, Nicholas Melady, went to prison and fell in love with a beautiful woman in a nearby cell. There to entrap him, she listened, learned, and led him to the gallows. When he was hanged in Goderich, hundreds watched, but thousands were late for the spectacle. They were bitterly disappointed because they had missed the last public hanging in Canada.

A Hanging Offence

Author : Don Cummer
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443139084
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book A Hanging Offence written by Don Cummer and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to Brothers at War finds best friends Jacob and Eli on opposite sides of the battlefield as the War of 1812 erupts. Jacob and Eli may be blood brothers, but they are on opposite sides in the battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812. While Jacob joins John Norton's Mohawk band fighting with the British-Canadian side, Eli fights with the Americans. The Canadians win the day, but the victory comes at a great cost: the death of General Brock. Eli is captured and jailed. Because he swore the oath of allegiance to the Crown before he left Canada, his return with the invaders makes him a traitor. He is charged with high treason -- a hanging offence. Can Jacob save his friend from the gallows?

Hanging in Canada

Author : Frank W. Anderson
Publisher : Surrey, B.C. : Frontier Books
ISBN 13 : 9780919214934
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Hanging in Canada written by Frank W. Anderson and published by Surrey, B.C. : Frontier Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lynching of Louie Sam

Author : Elizabeth Stewart
Publisher : Annick Press
ISBN 13 : 1554514940
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book The Lynching of Louie Sam written by Elizabeth Stewart and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1882 and 1968 there were 4,742 lynchings in the United States. In Canada during the same period there was one—the hanging of American Indian Louie Sam. The year is 1884, and 15-year-old George Gillies lives in the Washington Territory, near the border with British Columbia. In this newly settled land, white immigrants have an uneasy relationship with the Native Indians. When George and his siblings discover the murdered body of a local white man, suspicion immediately falls on a young Indian named Louie Sam. George and his best friend, Pete, follow a lynch mob north into Canada, where the terrified boy is seized and hung. But even before the deed is done, George begins to have doubts. Louie Sam was a boy, only 14—could he really be a vicious murderer? Were the mob leaders motivated by justice, or were they hiding their own guilt? As George uncovers the truth—implicating Pete’s father and other prominent locals—tensions in the town rise, and he must face his own part in the tragedy. But standing up for justice has devastating consequences for George and his family. Inspired by the true story of the lynching, recently acknowledged as a historical injustice by Washington State, this powerful novel offers a stark depiction of historical racism and the harshness of settler life. The story will provoke readers to reflect on the dangers of mob mentality and the importance of speaking up for what’s right.

Hanging in Canada: [a Concise History of Capital Punishment in Canada]

Author : Frank W. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Hanging in Canada: [a Concise History of Capital Punishment in Canada] written by Frank W. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walk Towards the Gallows

Author : Reinhold Kramer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195416862
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Walk Towards the Gallows written by Reinhold Kramer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1899, Hilda Blake, a domestic servant in Winnipeg, shot her pregnant employer. Cain's Daughter offers a fascinating, well-written account of this extraordinary legal and historical event, Along the way, the book skillfully illuminates social and political life in turn of the century Canada.

The Court of Better Fiction

Author : Debra Komar
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459744098
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The Court of Better Fiction written by Debra Komar and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Court of Better Fiction, forensic science reveals that to establish sovereignty over the Arctic people, Canada hanged the only Inuit ever executed. The men were innocent, but the nation’s guilt lives on.

Murder in the Schoolhouse

Author : William E. McLeod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780973229912
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Schoolhouse written by William E. McLeod and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William E. "Bill" McLeod was born and raised in Chapleau, Ontario. He holds an Honors Degree in Business Administration (Wilfrid Laurier University) and a Master's Degree in Business Administration (Michigan State University). He spent most of his working life on the faculty at Cambrian College of Applied Arts & Technology in Sudbury, Ontario. He retired in 1998."--http://www3.sympatico.ca/wemcleod/

Notes on an Execution

Author : Danya Kukafka
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006305275X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Notes on an Execution written by Danya Kukafka and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE 2023 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL • NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR “Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling.” —Katie Kitamura, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Editors' Choice) "A searing portrait of the complicated women caught in the orbit of a serial killer. . . . Compassionate and thought-provoking." –BRIT BENNETT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half Recommended by New York Times Book Review • Los Angeles Times • Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • USA Today • Buzzfeed • Goodreads • Real Simple • Marie Claire • Rolling Stone • Business Insider • Bustle • PopSugar • The Millions • The Guardian • and many more! In the tradition of Long Bright River and The Mars Room, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life—from the bestselling author of Girl in Snow. Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women—a mother, a sister, a homicide detective—we learn the story of Ansel’s life. We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation; Hazel, twin sister to Ansel’s wife, inseparable since birth, forced to watch helplessly as her sister’s relationship threatens to devour them all; and finally, Saffy, the detective hot on his trail, who has devoted herself to bringing bad men to justice but struggles to see her own life clearly. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift through the choices that culminate in tragedy, exploring the rippling fissures that such destruction inevitably leaves in its wake. Blending breathtaking suspense with astonishing empathy, Notes on an Execution presents a chilling portrait of womanhood as it simultaneously unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, interrogating our system of justice and our cultural obsession with crime stories, asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the psyches of violent men. "Poetic and mesmerizing . . . Powerful, important, intensely human, and filled with a unique examination of tragedy, one where the reader is left with a curious emotion: hope." —USA TODAY “A profound and staggering experience of empathy that challenges us to confront what it means to be human in our darkest moments. . . . I relished every page of this brilliant and gripping masterpiece."—ASHLEY AUDRAIN, New York Times bestselling author of The Push

The Hanging Valley (An Inspector Banks Mystery)

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476745250
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Hanging Valley (An Inspector Banks Mystery) written by Peter Robinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a faceless body is found in a tranquil valley just south of the village of Swainshead, Chief Inspector Alan Banks soon finds that no one in the village is willing to talk about it, except to say, “Not again.” An unsolved murder from five years before and the unsolved disappearance of a prominent local man’s girlfriend appear to be connected. As Banks delves deeper into the mystery, someone begins to intentionally slow down the investigation. When events take a turn, Inspector Banks must track his killer across the Atlantic and find a way to make a break in the case before time runs out. Fourth in the critically acclaimed Inspector Banks Mystery Series.

Last Moments

Author : Dale Brawn
Publisher : Quagmire Press
ISBN 13 : 9781926695150
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Last Moments written by Dale Brawn and published by Quagmire Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the final execution in 1962, more than 700 men and women were executed by hanging in Canada. Legal scholar Dale Brawn shines a light into a dark corner of Canadian history with dramatic stories of the condemned and their last moments.

The Lazier Murder

Author : Robert J. Sharpe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442693444
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Lazier Murder written by Robert J. Sharpe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse. Three local men, pleading innocence from start to finish, were arrested and charged with his murder. Two of them — Joseph Thomset and David Lowder — were sentenced to death by a jury of local citizens the following May. Nevertheless, appalled community members believed at least one of them to be innocent — even pleading with prime minister John A. Macdonald to spare them from the gallows. The Lazier Murder explores a community's response to a crime, as well as the realization that it may have contributed to a miscarriage of justice. Robert J. Sharpe reconstructs and contextualizes the case using archival and contemporary newspaper accounts. The Lazier Murder provides an insightful look at the changing pattern of criminal justice in nineteenth-century Canada, and the enduring problem of wrongful convictions.