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Executions and executioners in literature

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• Executions and executioners
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• Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-century U.S. Literature and Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter Caster (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro, Who Was Executed at New-Haven, on the 20th Day of October, 1790, for a Rape, Committed on the 26th Day of May Last (New Haven, CT: T. and S. Green, 1790), by Joseph Mountain, ed. by David Daggett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Billy Budd, by Herman Melville (HTML at Bibliomania)
• Caleb Williams, or Things As They Are, by William Godwin, contrib. by Ernest A. Baker (Gutenberg text)
• The Headswoman (illustrated edition; London and New York: J. Lane, 1921), by Kenneth Grahame, illust. by Marcia Lane Foster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Things As They Are: or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1816), by William Godwin (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Cuento de Dos Ciudades (A Tale of Two Cities with Spanish notes; Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1917), by Charles Dickens, ed. by Guillermo A. Sherwell, contrib. by Luis N. Sherwell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text
• Dark Hollow (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1914), by Anna Katharine Green, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text)

• The Seven Who Were Hanged, by Leonid Andreyev, trans. by Herman Bernstein (Gutenberg text)

• The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), by Sarah Tarlow (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• The Last Public Execution in America, by Perry T. Ryan (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Narrative of Whiting Sweeting, Who Was Executed at Albany, the Sixth of August, 1791 (Windham, CT: Printed for J. Huntongton, 1797), contrib. by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (page images at Cornell)
• The Narrative of Whiting Sweeting, Who Was Executed at Albany, the Sixth of August, 1791 (Hartford: Reprinted by Hudson and Goodwin, ca. 1797), contrib. by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (page images at Cornell)
• A Remarkable Narrative of Whiting Sweeting, Who Was Executed at Albany, in the State of New-York, for Murder (Exeter, NH: H. Ranlet, 1793), contrib. by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (page images at Cornell)
• A Remarkable Narrative of Whiting Sweeting, Who Was Executed at Albany in the State of New York for Murder (second Exeter edition; Exeter, NH: H. Ranlet, 1794), contrib. by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (page images at Cornell)

• The Ring and the Book, by Robert Browning (HTML at Bibliomania)

• The Crucifixion of Jesus: Torture, Sexual Abuse, and the Scandal of the Cross (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), by David Tombs (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The Crucifixion of Jesus: Torture, Sexual Abuse, and the Scandal of the Cross (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), by David Tombs (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• The High Cost of the Cross (c1984), by Joe Crews (HTML at amazingfacts.org)
• The Centrality of the Cross, by Jessie Penn-Lewis (HTML at worldinvisible.com)
• The Crucifixion of Christ: A Fact, Not Fiction, by John Gilchrist (HTML at answering-islam.org)
• The Death and Resurrection of Jesus: Ten Lectures for Holy Week and Easter (New York: James Pott and Co., 1888), by S. Baring-Gould (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Crucifixion or Cruci-Fiction? (with other Islamic titles), by Ahmed Deedat
  • PDF in South Africa
  • HTML at quranmalayam.com
• Das Letzte Passamahl Christ und der Tag Seines Todes, Nach den in Übereinstimmung Gebrachten Berichten der Synoptiker und des Evangelium Johannis (in German; Leipzig: H. Haessel, 1908), by D. A. Khvol'son
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Death of Christ, by James Denney (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Four Major Steps of Christ (with other books by this author), by Witness Lee (frame-dependent HTML at ministrybooks.org)
• The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ: A Devotional History of Our Lord's Passion (c1894), by James Stalker (Gutenberg text)

• Let Us Follow Him (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1897), by Henryk Sienkiewicz, trans. by Jeremiah Curtin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• As the Bandit Will I Confess You: Luke 23, 39-43 in Early Christian Interpretation (Cahiers de Biblia Patristica #13; Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg, 2013), by Mark Glen Bilby (PDF with commentary at calstate.edu)

• Parables of the Cross, by I. Lilias Trotter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Legendary History of the Cross: A Series of Sixty-Four Woodcuts From a Dutch Book Published by Veldener, A.D. 1483 (London: T. F. Unwin, 1887), ed. by John Ashton, contrib. by S. Baring-Gould, Jacobus de Voragine, and William Caxton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Case of the Nazarene Reopened (New York: Exposition Press, c1948), by Hyman E. Goldin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth: A Historic-Critical Treatise on the Last Chapters of the Gospel (third edition; Cincinnati: Bloch, 1883), by Isaac Mayer Wise (PDF at americanjewisharchives.org)

• The Battle for Libya: Killings, Disappearances and Torture (2011), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• The Leuchter Report: The End of a Myth (1988), by Fred A. Leuchter
  • HTML with commentary at ihr.org
  • HTML and critical commentary at zundelsite.org and Nizkor
• The Chemistry of Auschwitz: The Technology and Toxicology of Zyklon B and the Gas Chambers (third edition, previously published as "The Rudolf Report"; Uckfield, UK: Castle Hill Publishers, 2017), by Germar Rudolf (PDF at holocausthandbooks.com)
• Debunking the Bunkers of Auschwitz: Black Propaganda versus History (second edition; Uckfield, UK: Castle Hill Publishers, 2016), by Carlo Mattogno, trans. by Henry Gardner (PDF at holocausthandbooks.com)
• Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers (New York: Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1989), by Jean-Claude Pressac, trans. by Peter Moss (HTML with commentary at phdn.org)

• The Last Public Execution in America, by Perry T. Ryan (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Hanging the Sheriff: A Biography of Henry Plummer, by R. E. Mather and F. E. Boswell (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• By the Neck Until Dead: A History of Hangings in Cuyahoga County, by John Stark Bellamy (illustrated HTML with commentary at csuohio.org)

• From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.