Download or read book Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Societies throughout history have adopted many and varied methods of meting out the ultimate sanction of capital punishment to their more unruly members. Although a number of countries across the globe still execute their own citizens, on occasion in public, the modern world in general views execution with distaste, and public execution doubl...