Serial Killers: Hangmen & Headsmen

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Hangmen & Headsmen is a Snap-shot biography of some of Europe's most prolific executioners and executions in the 17th and 18th centuries. It investigates the motivation required to take up such a profession, examining the people who would give anything to end another person's life in the name of law and order. Does this make the Executioner as bad as the criminal? Find out about the lives of the people doing the dirtiest job of them all.


CONTENTS: Charles Sanson & Madame Guillotine, Jack Ketch, James Berry, William Calcraft, William Marwood