The Death Penalty as Torture: From the Dark Ages to Abolition

by John D. Bessler

The Death Penalty as Torture: From the Dark Ages to Abolition was named a Bronze Medalist in the World History category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards and a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards (2018). During the Dark Ages and the Renaissance, Europe's monarchs often resorted to torture and executions. The pain inflicted by instruments of torture--from the thumbscrew and the rack to the Inquisition's tools of torment--was eclipsed only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611639263
• ISBN13: 9781611639261
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.