What a Way to Go: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to DeathMacmillan, 2007 M04 17 - 352 pages A gruesomely, hilarious and fascinating pop-history account of methods of execution from around the world and through the ages |
Contents
Bastinado | 23 |
Buried Alive | 49 |
Burned Internally | 67 |
Dry Pan | 84 |
Firing Squad | 104 |
Flayed Alive | 124 |
Gas Chamber | 127 |
Gunpowder | 163 |
Harakiri | 221 |
Mannaia | 238 |
Rack | 251 |
Scottish Maiden | 262 |
Stoned to Death | 269 |
Thousand Cuts | 300 |
Twentyfour Cuts | 322 |
337 | |