Until You are Dead, Dead, Dead
Title | Until You are Dead, Dead, Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Bradshaw |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781628460995 |
How the tangles of nineteenth-century justice ensnared an itinerant worker in Louisiana
Hanged by the Neck Until You be Dead. Or, Why the Death Sentence Should be Abolished
Title | Hanged by the Neck Until You be Dead. Or, Why the Death Sentence Should be Abolished PDF eBook |
Author | Anonymous |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2024-06-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3385536278 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Hanged By the Neck Until…
Title | Hanged By the Neck Until… PDF eBook |
Author | George Wilhite |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 2024-01-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Ghostly goings-on at an old west ranch expose a dastardly murder and bring justice for the victim.
The Hanging of Betsey Reed
Title | The Hanging of Betsey Reed PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Kelsheimer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Illinois |
ISBN | 9780741440228 |
In 1845 twenty thousand people gathered in Lawrenceville, Illinois, to witness the hanging of Betsey Reed for poisoning her husband. Considered a witch by some, a victim by others; this is her story.
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
Title | Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Tarlow |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2018-05-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3319779087 |
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.
"Hanged by the Neck Until You be Dead;" Or, Why the Death Sentence Should be Abolished
Title | "Hanged by the Neck Until You be Dead;" Or, Why the Death Sentence Should be Abolished PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | Capital punishment |
ISBN |
A Hanging
Title | A Hanging PDF eBook |
Author | George Orwell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-09-17 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781804470886 |
George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels of all time, this new series of his essays seeks to bring his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. A Hanging, the ninth in the Orwell's Essays series, tells the story of the execution of an unnamed convict in Burma. With the veracity of the story unknown, but thought to be loosely based on Orwell's own experiences in Burma, the haunting tale leaves the reader contemplating the heavy topic of colonialism, and the right of one to take the life of another.