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Last moments : sentenced to death in Canada / Dale Brawn.

Title: Last moments : sentenced to death in Canada / Dale Brawn.
Author: Brawn, Dale, 1948-
Publication: [Edmonton] : Quagmire Press, c2011.

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367 p. : ill., port.; 21 cm.

Summary

Stories of the final moments of some of the more than 700 men and women who were executed by hanging in Canada before capital punishment was abolished in 1962.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references ([363]-367).

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Some death row realities -- How did it come to this? Motive for murder -- Getting religion -- Rituals -- Last words -- Witness to an execution -- On the scaffold -- Mistakes happen -- Please help me kill my husband -- What comes after? Bodies and burials -- The unusual -- The dance of death.

ISBN

9781926695150 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011486077

OCLC

696908660

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Harvard Library