Executions and executioners
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The Two Dead Girls
The book of Daniel
Forms of the Novella
The hanging tree
Executed at Dawn
Selected Writings of Herman Melville
Murderous Tommies
The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget
Rough Cider
Legal Executions in New England
Crime victims
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)
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