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Executions and executioners - History

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5 works

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    Poison : a social history / Joel Levy.

    Levy, Joel, 1971- | Date: 2011
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    "Last dying speeches" : religion, ideology and public execution in seventeenth-century England / J.A. Sharpe.

    Sharpe, J. A. | Date: 1985
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    The illustrated history of torture : from the Roman Empire to the war on terror / Jack Vernon.

    Vernon, Jack. | Date: [2011], ©2011
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    The hanging tree : execution and the English people, 1770-1868 / V.A.C. Gatrell.

    Gatrell, Vic, 1941- | Date: 1996
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    York's early printed ephemera / collected by Bill Sessions... and Alice Ford-Smith.

    Sessions, William K. (William Kaye) | Date: 2006

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