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Frontier Justice in the Wild West - Bungled, Bizarre, And Fascinating Executions (Paperback, First)
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Frontier Justice in the Wild West - Bungled, Bizarre, And Fascinating Executions (Paperback, First)
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Discovery Miles 3 720
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Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent
punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual
executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal
means of capital punishment. Learn about the bungled hanging of Tom
Ketchum who was beheaded by the noose; the unique trigger for the
trapdoor used to hang Tom Horn; "Big Nose" George Parrott who was
skinned, pickled, and made into a pair of shoes; the double trials
of Jack McCall, assassin of Wild Bill Hickok; the hanging of a
woman-Elizabeth Potts; the shooting of John D. Lee of Mountain
Meadows Massacre infamy; and the only use of a double "twitch-up"
gallows; etc. Each action-packed chapter includes biographical
information, the pursuit, the investigation, legal maneuvers, trial
information, and rarely-seen photographs.
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