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The first comprehensive examination of execution as a social institution in Canada.

Trade Review

It is difficult to find any major faults with this study, which is a welcome addition to Canadian legal history.

-- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Book Review, Vol 21, No 5 *
This study of executions in Canada is morbidly fascinating—literally. In calm, clear, well-written prose, Leyton-Brown looks at several hundred Canadian executions and presents details about enough of them to make a good story ... anyone who reads this dispassionate book will have difficulty concluding that execution can ever be justified. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- J.L. Granatstein * CHOICE, Vol 48, No 3 *

Ken Leyton-Brown has tackled an enormously important piece of research and The Practice of Execution in Canada will, without a doubt, serve as an important reference. Everyone who opposes, and also those who favour the death penalty should read it.

-- Gord Barnes, Amnesty International volunteer, activist and fieldworker * ActiveHistory.ca *

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Trial and Sentencing

3 Redemption

4 Confession

5 Procession

6 Hanging

7 Display

8 Inquest

9 Disposal

10 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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      Publisher University of British Columbia Press
      Published 18 May 2010
      ISBN-13 9780774817530
      978-0774817530
      ISBN-10 0774817534
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first comprehensive examination of execution as a social institution in Canada.

      Trade Review

      It is difficult to find any major faults with this study, which is a welcome addition to Canadian legal history.

      -- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Book Review, Vol 21, No 5 *
      This study of executions in Canada is morbidly fascinating—literally. In calm, clear, well-written prose, Leyton-Brown looks at several hundred Canadian executions and presents details about enough of them to make a good story ... anyone who reads this dispassionate book will have difficulty concluding that execution can ever be justified. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- J.L. Granatstein * CHOICE, Vol 48, No 3 *

      Ken Leyton-Brown has tackled an enormously important piece of research and The Practice of Execution in Canada will, without a doubt, serve as an important reference. Everyone who opposes, and also those who favour the death penalty should read it.

      -- Gord Barnes, Amnesty International volunteer, activist and fieldworker * ActiveHistory.ca *

      Table of Contents

      Preface and Acknowledgments

      1 Introduction

      2 Trial and Sentencing

      3 Redemption

      4 Confession

      5 Procession

      6 Hanging

      7 Display

      8 Inquest

      9 Disposal

      10 Conclusion

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index

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