Frontier Justice in the Wild West : Bungled, Bizarre, and Fascinating Executions
Overview
Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capital punishment. Learn about the bungled hanging of Tom Ketchum who was beheaded by the noose; the unique trigger for the trapdoor used to hang Tom Horn; "Big Nose" George Parrott who was skinned, pickled, and made into a pair of shoes; the double trials of Jack McCall, assassin of Wild Bill Hickok; the hanging of a woman-Elizabeth Potts; the shooting of John D. Lee of Mountain Meadows Massacre infamy; and the only use of a double "twitch-up" gallows; etc. Each action-packed chapter includes biographical information, the pursuit, the investigation, legal maneuvers, trial information, and rarely-seen photographs.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780762743896
- ISBN-10: 0762743891
- Publisher: Two Dot Books
- Publish Date: June 2007
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 6.06 x 0.55 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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