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 AMAZING TRUE STORIES OF EXECUTION BLUNDERSFirst published as THE EXECUTIONER ALWAYS CHOPS TWICE by Summersdale Publishers Ltd in 2002Copyright © Geoffrey Abbott 2002This edition published in 2006 All rights reserved.The right of Geoffrey Abbott to be identified as the author of this work has beenasserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs andPatents Act 1988.Condition of SaleThis book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade orotherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar conditionincluding this condition being imposed on the subsequent publisher. While every effort has been made to trace copyright in all material in this book, theauthor apologises if he has inadvertently failed to credit any such ownership, andupon being notified, it will be corrected in future editions.Summersdale Publishers Ltd46 West StreetChichester West Sussex PO19 1RPUK  www.summersdale.comPrinted and bound in Great BritainISBN: 1 84024 503 4ISBN 13: 978 1 84024 503 5 With thanks to Christopher Holmes of Christopher Holmes Photography, Kendal,for assistance with the illustrative material.
 
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Grateful thanks are due to all the librarians, curators and custodiansof newspaper and similar archives who devoted so much time inhelping me delve, dig and discover material for this book. Gratitudeis also due to those long-since executed gentlemen and women whose facetious last minute quips leaven these pages; for what islife, or even rapidly approaching death, without humour?I am also greatly indebted to Dr Harold Hillman, formerly Readerin Physiology and Director of Unity Laboratory of AppliedNeurobiology at the University of Surrey.
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Geoffrey Abbott served in the RAF for 35 years before becoming a Yeoman Warder (‘Beefeater’) and living in the Tower of London. Henow lives in the Lake District and, when he’s not flying helicopters,acts as a consultant to international film and television companies.By invitation Geoffrey is also a contributor of torture and executionitems for the latest edition of 
 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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