Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vi
Introduction viii
Chapter 1 The Americans Arrive 1
Chapter 2 Above the Law 8
Chapter 3 The Oldest Prison in England 18
Chapter 4 The Mechanics of Hanging 28
Chapter 5 Execution in the United States 38
Chapter 6 The First Execution at Shepton Mallet 49
Chapter 7 Three Rapists 60
Chapter 8 Three Double Executions 73
Chapter 9 The Rapist Who Never Was 87
Chapter 10 A Collection of Murderers 94
Chapter 11 The Murder of Sir Eric Teichman 112
Chapter 12 On the Nature of Firing Squads 122
Chapter 13 Decline of the English Murder 135
Chapter 14 The Last Firing Squad in England 145
Chapter 15 The Last Execution at Shepton Mallet 151
Chapter 16 American Military Executions at Nuremberg 157
Chapter 17 The End of American Jurisdiction in Britain? 164
Endword 170
Appendices
1 American Soldiers Executed in England between 1943 and 1945 172
2 Where the Bodies are Buried 174
3 The Executioners at Shepton Mallet, 1943-1945 178
Bibliography 184
Index 186
