Methods of Torture and Execution Author:Edwin J. Henri Torture and Executions, the strange rites of Capital Punishment though the ages. — Man has forever preyed on his fellow creatures, torturing and raping, ravaging and pillaging, burning, scalding, castrating and mutilating. — This is the sorry picture of Mankind down the ages, almost from the very first moment the sun began to shine upon the world.... more » And today? The same theme of torture and killing persists. Methods of torture and execution even now embrace the vilest of devices for bringing death to those who have been caught up in the meshes of justice. This book brings Man's inhumanity to Man right to your doorstep, examining, in stark detail, the wickedness or sins of men and women, clerks and clerics, politicians and Popes, Statesmen, Kings and Queens, prison and military authorities from centuries past right up to today. This book, undoubtedly, will open the eyes of readers appalled at the atrocities daily committed on the battlefronts, in prisons, in miliary and naval centres -- even in the privacy of the ordinary domestic home. Will torture ever end? Will death from the rope, the guillotine, the electric chair, the gas chamber -- ever cease? -- or have the dreadful years that have gone before cast such a heavy shadow over Mankind that hope of compassion is now forever dead in the hearts and in the souls of certain men and women who appear to be dedicated to death or dreadful suffering?« less