Execution: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death by Geoffrey Abbott

Execution: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death

Geoffrey Abbott

288 pages hardcover 2006

4 editions

nonfiction historical history dark informative slow-paced
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A gruesomely, hilarious and fascinating pop-history account of methods of execution from around the world and through the agesIn this wickedly humorous book, Geoffrey Abbott describes the effectiveness of instruments of torture and reveals the mac...

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