Last Moments : Sentenced to Death in Canada
by
Dale Brawn
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1926695151
ISBN-13
9781926695150
Publisher
Quagmire Press Ltd
Imprint
Quagmire Press Ltd
Country of Manufacture
CA
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 25th, 2011
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
338 grams
Dimensions
20.90 x 13.50 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Penology & punishment
Ksh 3,050.00
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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...
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