Monthly Book Club
Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada By Lorna Poplak
On April 7th, the members of our Book Club will be discussing Toronto based author Lorna Popalak’s non-fiction Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada.
Poplak explores the history of the death penalty in Canada till its abolition in 1976 and the various elements related to its enforcement and implementation.
It explores the whole story of such a punishment and everything rotating it, judges, trials, conviction, victims, hangmen and the wrongly convicted.
