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Drop dead : a horrible history of hanging in Canada / Lorna Poplak.

Poplak, Lorna, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781459738225 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: 205 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject:
Hanging > Canada > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Legislative Library.

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Author's Note 11(2)
Introduction 13(6)
1 Celebrating Confederation: Three Hangings in the First Year
19(8)
2 The Deadly Game of Hangman
27(11)
3 The Assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee: A Murder Mystery
38(9)
4 Crowd Control
47(9)
5 The Hangman's Job
56(7)
6 Treason: The Case Against Louis Riel
63(8)
7 The Petticoat and the Noose
71(9)
8 The Science and Art of Hanging
80(7)
9 Arthur Ellis: Canada's Most Famous Hangman
87(8)
10 Reasonable Doubt
95(8)
11 The Troubling Case of Wilbert Coffin
103(7)
12 Steven Murray Truscott: A Kid on Death Row
110(8)
13 The Last Women to Hang
118(10)
14 The Last Drop
128(9)
15 Under Lock and Key
137(9)
16 The End of the Rope
146(10)
17 Beyond Death Row
156(8)
18 Britain Heads Toward Abolition
164(11)
Conclusion 175(6)
Acknowledgements 181(2)
Selected Bibliography 183(8)
Image Credits 191(2)
Index 193