A HANDBOOK ON HANGING Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution

Softcover. A satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation: the hangman. With barbed wit, the author not only writes of hanging, but also of electrocution, decapitation and gassing; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of bloodlust mobs and the political expedients of the great. A classic satire, admired by Bertholt Brecht and Dylan Thomas, Duff’s polemic makes it clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be – justice, vengeance, a deterrent – it is certainly killing. With Conclusion, Notes and Appendix (A Ready Reckoner for Hangmen). 208pp. soft cover. As New with no creasing to covers.