Word: hangmanship
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Nevertheless, the New Handbook makes gripping reading and is full of sleep-troubling facts about hangmanship, from an account of distinguished executioners who committed suicide to the sort of wood it is best to use for gallows (teak) to the best rope for hanging a man (¾-in. rope of five strands of Italian hemp...
Some American readers may be piqued to find that Author Duff does not think much of U.S. hangmanship. Master Sergeant John C. Woods, the U.S. executioner at the Nürnberg war-crimes trials, was accused of bungling the job. "Wherever I look among accounts of American hangings," writes Duff, "I find something to indicate a certain lack of dispatch. Yet there is one great comfort: America's hanged die as certainly as England...
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