In a tepid market for business tomes, Mr. Bossidy's book, "Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done," is still selling strongly 13 months after it hit the stores.
The book, "Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done," (Crown Business, $27.50) was written by Mr. Bossidy and Ram Charan, a consultant and author, with Charles Burck, a writer.
Mr. King, an amateur historian, stumbled on the Groveland case while writing his first book, "The Execution of Willie Francis," another tale of racial injustice.
Each of these episodes has heartrending moments, among them one not found in Morpurgo's book: the execution by firing squad of two deserters, observed from behind the slowly revolving sails of a windmill.
Stafford Smith – known for his work in America and his book on executions after miscarriages of justice there – hopes to secure a European Union presence at Monday's hearing.
"The three Sundays rule dated back to the Victorian era," explains Steve Fielding, a criminologist and author of more than 20 books on executions.
But perhaps his most important book was The Execution Process (1978), two volumes in which he expounded his theory of control over bureaucracy.
According to the accompanying book, Charles's execution "not only severed his head from his body, but severed the link with the old-style feudal and all-powerful monarchy... the king was no longer unassailable".
Basic concepts and features of current computing platforms and environments are reviewed, preparing the ground for the central subject of this book, the controlled execution of several independent, asynchronous flows of instructions.
But, like so many elements of this book, Cronenberg's execution falls far short of the mark.
In the 20 states that still have laws on the books permitting the execution of retarded people convicted of capital offenses, it is estimated that there are scores, perhaps even hundreds, of inmates whose low I.Q.'s will now qualify them for a sentence reduction to life in prison.
