Crowning Disasters

What a Way to Go: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death

Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold

Execution

The Book of Execution

Lords of the Scaffold: A History of the Executioner

Rack, Rope and Red-hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments

Grave Disturbances: A History of the Body Snatchers

The Gruesome History of Old London Bridge

Great Escapes from the Tower of London

Severed: British Beheadings Through the Ages