Noose: True Stories of Australians Who Have Died at the Gallows by Xavier Duff

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Date die slip on inside. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Half-title page binding has been reinforced.

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 Melbourne's Pentridge Prison in 1967, in the controversial case that divided the nation.

Includes bibliographical references