Noose. True Stories Of Australians Who Died At The Gallows

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: The Five Mile Press
Publisher Place: Scoresby
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 279 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Over two centuries, 1700 men and women were sent to the gallows in Australia. Noose vividly portrays eleven of these cases, including the very first - in 1788 of Thomas Barrett, a First Fleeter and talented engraver, hanged for stealing food. And the very last, the hanging of Ronald Ryan, at Melbournes Pentridge Prison in 1967, in the controversial case that divided the nation. Among others, Noose explores the Myall Creek Massacre, in which seven stockmen were hanged for the slaughter of 28 Aboriginal people, Elizabeth Woolcock, charged with poisoning her husband, and the possibly schizophrenic Clifford Hulme, a case which, combined with Angus Murrays hanging in 1924, presaged the beginning of the end for capital punishment in Australia.

ISBN: 9781743466971