Noose. True Stories Of Australians Who Died At The Gallows

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

Description: 279 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The first man hanged in Australia lost his life for stealing food. Rough justice was the order of the day, and even minor offences were punished by death. Over almost two centuries, 1700 men and women were sent to the gallows in Australia. Noose draws on court records and newspaper reports to paint a vivid picture of how people came to be found guilty of capital crimes. It uncovers injustices and traces the rising chorus of dissent that eventually saw hanging abolished. Anyone interested in Australias social and criminal history will enjoy these gripping, chilling tales.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