George Orwell--also read Shooting an Elephant

Wow--found it again--George Orwell--The Hanging--

A Hanging | The Orwell Foundation

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/a-hanging/

A Hanging | The Orwell Foundation

"It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man."

If you want to read of (botched) hangings--see Joseph E Persico--Nuremberg--also a movie.

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new one is also being made.