Execution: A Guide to the Ultimate Penalty (eBook) By (author) Abbott, Geoffrey

Short Description for ExecutionIn his own darkly humorous style, Geoffrey Abbott describes such hair-raising categories as death by cannibalism, being sewn into an animal's belly and a thousand cuts, and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as 'gone west' or 'drawn a blank' as well as the jargon of the underworld.

• Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd.
• Published: 10 January 2005
• Format: eBook 380 pages
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• Categories: Crime
• ISBN 13: 9781840249033