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The emperor's wolves / by Sagara, Michelle,1963-author.(CARDINAL)494419;
"Multiple races carefully navigate the City of Elantra under the Dragon Emperor's wing. His Imperial Wolves are executioners, the smallest group to serve in the Halls of Law. The populace calls them assassins. Every wolf candidate must consent to a full examination by the Tha'alani, one of the most feared and distrusted races in Elantra for their ability to read minds. Most candidates don't finish their job interviews. Severn Handred, the newest potential recruit, is determined to face and pass this final test - even if by doing so he's exposing secrets he has never shared. When an interrogation uncovers the connections to a two-decade-old series of murders of the Tha'alani, the Wolves are commanded to hunt. Severn's first job will be joining the chase. From the High Halls to the Tha'alani quarter, from the Oracles to the Emperor, secrets are uncovered, tensions are raised and justice just might be done...if Severn can survive."--Publisher description.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Dragons; Shapeshifting; Imaginary places; Executions and executioners; Magic;

Execution eve, and other contemporary ballads/ by Buckley, William F.,Jr.,1925-2008.(CARDINAL)142872;

The book of Daniel / by Doctorow, E. L.,1931-2015.(CARDINAL)139132;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Executions and executioners; Jewish families; Trials (Espionage);

The execution protocol : inside America's capital punishment industry / by Trombley, Stephen.(CARDINAL)161840;
Subjects: Case studies.; Executions and executioners; Capital punishment;

Marshal Ney before and after execution; with numerous illustrations / by Smoot, J. Edward,1868-(CARDINAL)608363; Weston, James A.(James Augustus),1838-1905.Historic doubts as to the execution of Marshal Ney.;
Bibliography included in preface.
Subjects: Biographies.; Ney, Michel, duc d'Elchingen, 1769-1815.; Ney, Peter Stuart, -1846.; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.; North Caroliniana.;

Rites of execution : capital punishment and the transformation of American culture, 1776-1865 / by Masur, Louis P.(CARDINAL)191263;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-197) and index.
Subjects: Capital punishment; Executions and executioners;

From dust and ashes : a story of liberation / by Goyer, Tricia.(CARDINAL)353117;
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Romance fiction.; Executions and executioners; War crime trials; War criminals; Widows;

Legal executions in North Carolina and South Carolina : a comprehensive registry, 1866-1962 / by Hearn, Daniel Allen,1958-(CARDINAL)335274;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Persons executed in North Carolina -- Persons executed in South Carolina."Presented in chronological order, this book provides essential details about the 1,152 men and women who were legally put to death in North and South Carolina during the century after the Civil War. Each entry contains information about the criminals themselves and the deeds which cost them their lives. Based almost entirely on original archival materials such as court records, contemporary newspapers, prisoner files, appellate reports, gubernatorial correspondence, etc., a newer picture of the historical record emerges that students of Southern justice will find both revealing and disconcerting"--Back cover.
Subjects: Records and briefs.; Chronologies.; Capital punishment; Capital punishment; Executions and executioners; Executions and executioners;

Billy Budd, and other stories / by Melville, Herman,1819-1891.(CARDINAL)138287;
Bartleby the scrivener.--Benito Cereno.--Las Encantadas or, Enchanged Isles.--Billy Budd.
Subjects: Fiction.; Executions and executioners; Impressment; Sailors; Sea stories, American.; Ship captains;

Half-moon and empty stars : a novel / by Spence, Gerry.(CARDINAL)522206;
Publisher's description: From one of America's most famous lawyers and author of The New York Times bestseller How to Argue and Win Every Time comes a new American classic: a legal thriller, a love story, a visionary work that examines deeply our values of life and death. Gerry Spence's Half-Moon and Empty Stars relates the gripping love stories of two women - Charlie Redtail's mother and his woman, Willow - who struggle, each in her own way, to save Charlie from the gas chamber. It is the story of brothers, half-blooded Arapahoe twins: Charlie, who goes the way of the Native American, and Billy, who becomes a wealthy Wall Street banker, resulting in a conflict of cultures that explodes in murder. Charlie is dragged to trial in a small, prejudiced backwater Wyoming town, a trial that erupts into an astonishing courtroom drama that only Gerry Spence, with his intimate knowledge of murder trials, could tell. Can Abner Hill, a deeply principled small-town lawyer who has fallen in love with Charlie's mother, fight the state's perjured testimony with his own false witnesses to save Charlie Redtail? Which is more important, the life of a "breed Indian, a dog-eater," or the economic betterment of the town and the political career of the governor? With a superb sense of drama and an intimate knowledge of how the court system really works in the face of power and politics, Gerry Spence has crafted a sensational legal thriller that is also a compelling family drama. This is a remarkable first novel that penetrates deeply into the very roots of our lives and our system, that relentlessly probes life, death, justice, and, at last, the infinite power of love.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Legal fiction (Literature); Brothers; Executions and executioners; Indians of North America; Murder;

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