Lord High Executioner: Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen and Their Kind

This book is an inspection of the people who do our dirty work for us. Throughout the centuries there has been no end to the imaginative methods the state has sanctioned to execute those people who have comitted criminal acts.Internationally acclaimed and award-winning mystery writer Howard Engel has written a history, wonderfully wise and witty, abou the methods and the men - and one woman - who throughout history have been our agents of death. (1996)