Geoffrey Abbott
Contributor
Former Yeoman Warder, Tower of London, United Kingdom. Author of The Book of Execution and others.
Primary Contributions (12)
Lynching in the United States, a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture and corporal mutilation. Lynching refers to the extrajudicial killing of an individual or individuals without…
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Publications (3)
Female Executions Martyrs, Murderesses and Madwomen (2013)
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The fairer sex get it in the neck in these grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine and gas chamber. You have been warned.
From Nan Hereford, the cloaked highwayman who held up coaches with just her fists, to the woman who survived the gallows and took her empty coffin away with her, Female Executions illuminates history's darker periods with a detailed and factual approach. Grimly funny and darkly gripping, interspersed with unusual last requests and black and white illustrations throughout,...
What a Way to Go (2010)
A pop-history review of methods of execution and torture from around the world.
The Book of Execution An Encyclopedia of Methods of Judicial Execution (1995)
From the gruesomely familiar to the grisly and bizarre, this unique encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive history ever published of the "art" of execution -- the ultimate penalty. Details the many ingenious and seemingly incomprehensible means used through history, including the more familiar guillotine, stoning, and crucifixion, such less-known acts as sewing a victim into the belly of a dead animal, and such "modern" methods as lethal injection and the electric chair. Black-and-white illustrations.
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