Executioner S Current
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Executioner S Current
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Author : Richard Moran
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Executioner S Current written by Richard Moran and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
A "fascinating and provocative" story (The Washington Post) of high stakes competition between two titans that shows how the electric chair developed through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other. In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity” when he illuminated Manhattan’s Pearl Street with his direct current (DC) system. Six years later, George Westinghouse lit up Buffalo with his less expensive alternating current (AC). The two men quickly became locked in a fierce rivalry, made all the more complicated by a novel new application for their product: the electric chair. When Edison set out to persuade the state of New York to use Westinghouse’s current to execute condemned criminals, Westinghouse fought back in court, attempting to stop the first electrocution and keep AC from becoming the “executioner’s current.” In this meticulously researched account of the ensuing legal battle and the horribly botched first execution, Moran raises disturbing questions not only about electrocution, but about about our society’s tendency to rely on new technologies to answer moral questions.
The Executioners Bible
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Author : Steve Fielding
language : en
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Release Date : 2008-11-12
The Executioners Bible written by Steve Fielding and has been published by Kings Road Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-12 with Fiction categories.
It has been just over 40 years since a gallows was last used in Great Britain, and the secrets behind the men who pulled the lever and dropped the condemned to their deaths are still shrouded in mystery. This account tells the story of the working-class men who carried out this profession until its abolition in the late 1960s. The hangman's rope was part of an exact science, and in their day, the men who undertook the job assumed the profiles of infamous celebrities, their reputations often rivaling the notorious criminals they were charged with dispatching. From the bungling hangmen sacked for incompetence and those driven to guilt-ridden suicide to the last to pull the lever at the height of the swinging sixties, the secrets of this form of capital punishment are finally revealed. They were the last of their kind, the hangmen of the 20th century; and this is their fascinating, sometimes repugnant, always enthralling story.
The Executioner S Men
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Author : George W. Grayson
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2012
The Executioner S Men written by George W. Grayson and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with True Crime categories.
Bloodshed connected with Mexican drug cartels, how they emerged, and their impact on the United States is the subject of this frightening book. Savage narcotics-related decapitations- castrations, and other murders have destroyed tourism in many Mexican communities and such savagery is now cascading across the border into the United States. Grayson explores how this spiral of violence emerged in Mexico, its impact on the country and its northern neighbor, and the prospects for managing it. Mexico was named an Outstanding Academic Tide of 2010 by Choice Magazine.
The Royal Financial Administration And The Prosecution Of Crime In France 1670 1789
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Author : Albert N. Hamscher
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2012-07-13
The Royal Financial Administration And The Prosecution Of Crime In France 1670 1789 written by Albert N. Hamscher and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-13 with History categories.
The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670–1789 explores the French monarchy’s role in financing criminal prosecutions in the royal courts of the realm—the payment of criminal frais de justice in the vocabulary of the ancien régime—between 1670 and 1789 (that is, from the codification of criminal judicial procedure in the early period of Louis XIV’s personal rule to the outbreak of the French Revolution). The subject brings together three areas of scholarly inquiry—criminal justice, royal administration, and the management of the crown’s finances. A central goal of the study is to provide factual information and interpretive insights on each of these topics and to explain the relationship of each to the others over a long time period. The book contributes to existing scholarship in four ways. First, although each of the major dimensions of the inquiry—the operation of the criminal justice system, the conduct of the royal administration, and the management of the monarchy’s finances—has a large and increasingly sophisticated historical literature, this is the first study to combine them in a systematic way. Second, the long time period covered in the book not only enables the historian to distinguish gradual from rapid change, but it also allows the reader to view how the system functioned in different historical contexts. Third, the study is based on archival sources throughout France. This comprehensive approach permits the identification of elements of a common experience without sacrificing attention to important aspects of regional diversity. Finally, with respect to the sources themselves, the range is broad, encompassing regulatory acts and decisions of the king’s councils; administrative correspondence at the central, regional, and in some cases local levels; financial accounts and related papers; and court records from the major appellate courts and from several lower courts as well. An appendix of 33 tables lists figures of annual expenditure and other pertinent financial operations for each of the major financial districts of the kingdom.
The Faithful Executioner
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Author : Joel F. Harrington
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2013-03-19
The Faithful Executioner written by Joel F. Harrington and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The extraordinary story of a renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal. In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more he tortured, flogged, or disfigured for more than forty-five years in the city of Nuremberg. But the portrait of Schmidt that gradually emerged was not that of a monster. Could a man who practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate—even progressive? In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington teases out the hidden meanings and drama of Schmidt’s journal. Deemed an official outcast, Meister Frantz sought to prove himself worthy of honor and free his children from the stigma of his profession. Harrington uncovers details of Schmidt’s life and work: the shocking, but often familiar, crimes of the day; the medical practice that he felt was his true calling; and his lifelong struggle to reconcile his craft with his religious faith. In this groundbreaking and intimate portrait, Harrington shows us that our thinking about justice and punishment, and our sense of our own humanity, are not so remote from the world of The Faithful Executioner.
Electric Power
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Electric Power written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with categories.
Current Opinion
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Current Opinion written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Literature categories.
The Encyclopedia Of American Prisons
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Author : Carl Sifakis
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-30
The Encyclopedia Of American Prisons written by Carl Sifakis and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-30 with Correctional personnel categories.
Examines the history of prisons in the United States with articles about convict labor, escapes, famous and infamous wardens, fires, notable prisoners, riots, prison society, reformers, terminology, and more.
Tales Of The Executioners Volume Two
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Author : Joleene Naylor
language : en
Publisher: Joleene Naylor
Release Date : 2019-04-26
Tales Of The Executioners Volume Two written by Joleene Naylor and has been published by Joleene Naylor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-26 with Fiction categories.
Fourteen short stories that complete the saga of Malick’s Guild. Volume Two continues the stories of the vampires’ elite enforcers. Well established in contemporary times, The Guild rots from within as Malick’s madness spirals out of control. His desperate plots to regain – and tame – his prodigal son lead to rebellion, betrayal, and death. Can the survivors pick up the pieces or will fiery chaos rule?
Tales Of The Executioners Volume One
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Author : Joleene Naylor
language : en
Publisher: Joleene Naylor
Release Date : 2018-10-29
Tales Of The Executioners Volume One written by Joleene Naylor and has been published by Joleene Naylor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-29 with Fiction categories.
Fifteen short stories of love, death, heartbreak, and blood. Meet the Executioners, elite enforcers of the vampires’ laws. Walk with them through origin stories, follow them across the sea to the colonies, and run with them through the wilds, as they try to bring civilization to a land ruled by “day sleeper” clans. Fifteen interwoven stories tell the beginning of The Guild, set under the watchful - and sometimes malevolent - gaze of the ancient Malick, whose heavy shadow stretches even across the sea. Meet his favorite son, his willful daughter, his child-like pet, and many more whose jealousies, hatreds, and loves twist together to create consequences they can’t foresee. Look for Tales of the Executioners Volume Two, where the story continues.