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Hardcover The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose Book
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ISBN: 1610391365

ISBN13: 9781610391368

The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose

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The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America.

The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one that is all too deeply connected to America's past -- and present.

The last man to be hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, who was executed in Delaware in 1996 for committing a double murder. Even...

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