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The Pleasure As Well As The Pain

Andro Linklater LORD HIGH EXECUTIONER: AN UNASHAMED LOOK AT HANGMEN, HEADSMEN AND THEIR KIND by Howard Engel Robson, £16.99, pp. 256 F ollowing the gory death of Pedro Med- ina......

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