
They were cobblers, salesmen, barbers and landlords. Working men. Yet they were anything but ordinary. They were the State’s part-time killers; the hangmen.
Air Date: 2008-09-17
This is the story of The Private Executioners…a unique history of British capital punishment, seen through the eyes o...
Air Date: 2008-09-29
The story of the French ‘bourreau’ is perhaps the most remarkable in the history of judicial executions. Nowhere were...
Air Date: 2008-09-30
In Britain it was the rope. In France; the guillotine. But in its short history the United States of America has expe...