RT Book
T1 American hangman: a biography of Amos Lunt, the executioner of San Quentin
A1 Buhk, Tobin T.
LA English
PP Jefferson, North Carolina
PB McFarland & Company, Inc.
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1814449647
AB "In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths. A former police chief who became the hangman of San Quentin due to an unfortunate turn of events, Lunt stood on the gallows alongside bank robbers, desperadoes and assassins throughout a five-year career. This book follows Lunt's trail from the Santa Cruz police department to the San Quentin State Prison. Covering his interesting friendship with a series of death row inmates to the gradual deterioration of his sanity, it is a one-of-a-kind biography that profiles an American executioner. Also profiled are his subjects--twenty of the West's most heinous criminals--as well as Lunt's preparations for their hangings and their final moments on the gallows"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV8658.L79
SN 9781476685922
K1 Lunt, Amos : 1846-1901
K1 California State Prison at San Quentin : Biography
K1 Executions and executioners : California : Biography
K1 Hanging : California : History
K1 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Law Enforcement
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
K1 USA : Scharfrichter : Täter : Todesstrafe