The Hangman's Knot: Lynching, Legal Execution, and America's Struggle with the Death Penalty

by Eliza Steelwater

Book Overview

Public executions were once commonplace American spectacles. In one instance, Puritan clergymen convicted and executed nineteen people for the "crime" of witchcraft. On the other side of the country... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081334042X
• ISBN13: 9780813340425
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"