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American Hangman - A Biography of Amos Lunt, the Executioner of San Quentin (Paperback)
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American Hangman - A Biography of Amos Lunt, the Executioner of San Quentin (Paperback)
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In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying
the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild
West to their deaths. A former police chief who became the hangman
of San Quentin due to an unfortunate turn of events, Lunt stood on
the gallows alongside bank robbers, desperadoes and assassins
throughout a five-year career. This book follows Lunt's trail from
the Santa Cruz police department to the San Quentin State Prison.
Covering his interesting friendship with a series of death row
inmates to the gradual deterioration of his sanity, it is a
one-of-a-kind biography that profiles an American executioner. Also
profiled are his subjects-twenty of the West's most heinous
criminals-as well as Lunt's preparations for their hangings and
their final moments on the gallows.
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