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Last Moments
- Sentenced to Death in Canada
Engelsk Paperback

Last Moments

- Sentenced to Death in Canada
Engelsk Paperback

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Before the final execution in 1962, more than 700 men and women were executed by hanging in Canada. Last Moments shines a light into a dark corner of a long and painful part of Canadian history that threatens to re-emerge. Here are dramatic stories of the characters whose finals moments and last words were tragic, unpredictable, poignant, eccentric and often bizarre: * The principal object of curiosity at executions, apart from the person about to die, was the executioner; before Confederation, these individuals were often recruited from among the condemned, and they were given two options -- kill or be killed * A Yukon execution was delayed because freezing spectators, tired of waiting in the cold, used the wooden trapdoor of the gallows to build a fire * George Dowie from PEI didn''t believe in brief farewells; his final discourse was so long that officials brought an armchair onto the scaffold so he could sit while addressing the crowd * British Columbian Corky Vincent brawled with his executioner on the scaffold before onlookers leaped into the fray, overpowered him and held him on the trapdoor until he was dropped to his death * And so many more tantalizing and twisted tidbits...
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9781926695150
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1926695151
Udg. Dato:
25 apr 2011
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
135mm
Højde:
209mm
Forlag:
Quagmire Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
25 apr 2011
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