DATE WITH THE HANGMAN (PB)

Until the closing years of the twentieth century, Britain's courts were technically able to impose the death penalty for a number of offences; both civil and military. During the twentieth century, 865 people were executed in Britain. This book details each of those executions. It also covers the various forms of capital punishment used throughout British history, sparing no detail in chronicling these events. Dobbs has painstakingly collected together every available piece of evidence to provide as clear a picture as possible of a time when the law operated on the principle of an eye for an eye.