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Retribution has been sought by many methods, from beheading, garroting, entombment, and burning to modern means such as electrocution and lethal injection. For the infliction of torturous pain, even more ingenious devices have been employed. While torture has usually been carried out behind closed doors, it is only recently that executions have ceased to be a popular public spectacle.
THE HISTORY OF TORTURE AND EXECUTION examines these fascinating but grisly subjects by time, region, and method. Beginning with the often crude methods of meting out justice used by early and first-millennium civilizations, and evolving from the sadistic tools of the medieval age to the modern search for humane execution methods, controversial issues are authoritatively covered.
THE HISTORY OF TORTURE AND EXECUTION examines these fascinating but grisly subjects by time, region, and method. Beginning with the often crude methods of meting out justice used by early and first-millennium civilizations, and evolving from the sadistic tools of the medieval age to the modern search for humane execution methods, controversial issues are authoritatively covered.
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| Author | Jean Kellaway |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Lyons Press |
| Page Count | 192pp |
| Publication Size | 8.5 x 10.5 |
| Publication Notes | softcover, color |
| Publication Date | 2003 |
| ISBN | 978-1585746224 |
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