executions and executioners

When her Uncle Frank is executed for treason against England's King George in 1746 and his severed head is mounted on a pike for public viewing, daring Alice tries to reclaim the head for a proper burial, finding an unlikely ally in the soft-hearted executioner, while incurring the wrath of the royal guard.

Thirteen-year-old Lily, daughter of the town's executioner living in fifteenth-century Europe, decides whether to fight against her destiny or to rise above her fate.

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.

A drama inspired by the true story of the trial and execution of a nineteen-year-old black man who in 1985 set off a bomb in a South African shopping center at Christmastime, killing five people and injuring over fifty.

Traces the history of execution in the United States, from colonial times to the present, and explores how the answer to the death penalty's future lies in its past.

Humorous illustrations describe the culture and traditions of Paris and of the aristocracy during the time of the French Revolution.