Executions and executioners
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Catherine
First World War trials and executions
Execution of Charles Horman
The executioner's daughter
The Sin Eater's daughter
Fred & Edie
Herman Melville Classic Stories (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Bell Tower / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd / Encantadas / Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids / Piazza)
88 men and 2 women
Last suppers
The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Hamlyn history of punishment and torture
A Coffin for King Charles
Executioner, Pierrepoint
Billy Budd, Sailor & Other Stories
Procedure for military executions
Dangerous Waters
For the sake of example
Lord High Executioner
Novels (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd)
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Aristocrat in the French Revolution!
The History of Torture and Execution
Bloody tower
Dark hollow
The 500 hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Executing grace
The faithful executioner
Resisting Hitler
Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
Stolen in the night
A Perfect Evil
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