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Reflections on Hanging (Paperback)
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Reflections on Hanging is a searing indictment of capital
punishment, inspired by its author's own time in the shadow of a
firing squad. During the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler was
held by the Franco regime as a political prisoner, and condemned to
death. He was freed, but only after months of witnessing the fates
of less-fortunate inmates. That experience informs every page of
the book, which was first published in England in 1956, and
followed in 1957 by this American edition. As Koestler ranges
across the history of capital punishment in Britain (with a focus
on hanging), he looks at notable cases and rulings, and portrays
politicians, judges, lawyers, scholars, clergymen, doctors, police,
jailers, prisoners, and others involved in the long debate over the
justness and effectiveness of the death penalty. In Britain,
Reflections on Hanging was part of a concerted, ultimately
successful effort to abolish the death penalty. At that time, in
the forty-eight United States, capital punishment was sanctioned in
forty-two of them, with hanging still practiced in five. This
edition includes a preface and afterword written especially for the
1957 American edition. The preface makes the book relevant to
readers in the U.S.; the afterword overviews the modern-day history
of abolitionist legislation in the British Parliament. Reflections
on Hanging is relentless, biting, and unsparing in its details of
botched and unjust executions. It is a classic work of advocacy for
some of society's most defenseless members, a critique of capital
punishment that is still widely cited, and an enduring work that
presaged such contemporary problems as the sensationalism of crime,
the wrongful condemnation of the innocent and mentally ill, the
callousness of penal systems, and the use of fear to control a
citizenry.
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