Public Executions is almost like a textbook reading of the history of, well, public executions. The book focuses on the different types of executions, when they were used and when they stopped, or if they stopped, along with where else was using that type of execution.
Is this an interesting book? For me, yes, it is. I would say I wish it was layed out a bit differently but that doesn’t really matter.
Is it dark? Yes. It is rather dark and shows the depravity that humanity is willing to go to in regards to executions, as well as how executions haven’t really changed that much, human’s are willing to kill anyone, even in the most grotesque ways.
Is history littered throughout? Of course. There is no way it could not be in here. it’s well researched, along with how other countries used certain executions that were similar but were slightly different in the execution.
It’s a dark read, so clearly this isn’t one for people who don’t like the grotesque, the macabre, the title tells you exactly what this book is about and it delivers.
The Pen and the Book 
Sounds really interesting! Bronte