executions and executioners

Charles Dickens's classic tale written in graphic novel format about a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the women he loves.

Lady Jane Grey, who at sixteen was Queen of England for nine days before being executed, recounts her life story from the age of nine.

A young man has been wrongfully convicted of a crime and faces execution in Texas, but his lawyer, the flamboyant Robbie Fleck, is committed to proving his innocence.

In a nation of warriors where weakness is shunned and all crimes, no matter how minor, are punishable by beheading, young Jebel Rum, along with a slave who is fated to be sacrificed, sets forth on a quest to petition the Fire God for invincibility, but when the long and arduous journey is over, Jebel has learned much about fairness and the value of life.

Presents a fictional autobiography of Lady Jane Grey in which she tells the story of her life, from age nine to sixteen when she was executed after being queen of England for only nine days.

In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn.

Contains over 240 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of capital punishment, featuring biographies of people who have been executed, and covering court cases, methods, statistics, and other related topics.

Dr. Kevorkian, inventor of the controversial "suicide machine," outlines his views on planned death.

Herman Melville's classic novel "Billy Bud" along with eight shorter stories; and includes introduction, textual and explanatory notes, and chronology.