The Seventeen Executions of Signore Don Vashta

Sixteen executions have failed. The seventeenth is about to begin.

Beal devoted his life to the study of executions. The notorious Don Vashta is the greatest challenge any executioner can face: an immortal criminal who always rises from the dead to sin again. 

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