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Hello, my name is Michael Giacometti and I’m reading an excerpt from Elijah Upjohn, public hangman.
Hanging is a fine art and not a mechanical trade. Is not a man an artist who can painlessly and without brutality despatch another man?
– Charles Duff, A Handbook on Hanging (more…)