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“Membaca adalah tulang dan sumsum, limpa dan darah bagiku.”
― Howard Engel

“Old Sparky,” its venerable electric chair, to use on John Spenkelink”
― Howard Engel, Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

“Australian authorities were congratulating themselves on finally having run the famous bushranger Ned Kelly to earth. Kelly, whose homemade armor was”
― Howard Engel, Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

“Giles Corey,”
― Howard Engel, Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

“Benny Cooperman detective novels. After suffering a stroke, Engel developed alexia sine agraphia in 2000, a condition that prevented him from reading without great effort. This, however, did not inhibit his ability to write, and he later penned a memoir about the experience and his recovery called The Man Who Forgot How to Read. Engel is a founder of Crime Writers of Canada”
― Howard Engel, Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

“Thomas Howard.”
― Howard Engel, Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

“February 1885, Berry took the train to Exeter to hang John Lee, a footman, convicted of brutally murdering his employer.”
― Howard Engel, Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

“I hear echoes in your prose, echoes that run back to stuffy English drawing rooms and American universities. Is that what Canadians aspire to sound like?" She had taken a cigarette without appearing to watch what she was doing, and lighted it from a box of kitchen matches. I needed a cigarette myself, but was too wrapped up in what was being said to me to attempt to smoke. Gertrude blew a large smoke ring across the gap between us and watched it drift towards the ceiling.”
― Howard Engel, Murder in Montparnasse

“In contrast to Albert’s meticulous work, the American executioner Master Sergeant John C. Woods of the U.S. Army, who was given the responsibility of hanging the major groups of war criminals”
― Howard Engel, Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

“Constantine outlawed it in the world he oversaw some time after A.D. 315, but when Charles le Bon, Charles the Good, count of Flanders, was assassinated in the church of St. Donat in Bruges in 1127, Bertholde, the murderer, was ordered to be crucified by the French king Louis VI, called Louis the Fat.”
― Howard Engel, Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

“Hanging” Judge Isaac C. Parker”
― Howard Engel, Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

“I took a sip of the cognac, and it bit my lip. I took a bigger sip, to bite it back, and it snapped at my gullet all the way down.”
― Howard Engel, The Benny Cooperman Mysteries Volume One: The Suicide Murders, The Ransom Game, and Murder on Location

“Robert G. Elliott,”
― Howard Engel, Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind