Gatrell reminds us that they are much nastier than the thin veneer ofpect ity that is often used with euphemisms and other ways to disguise the horribleness of it. He says, no one who lived in that era was under the illusion that hanging was anything other than a horrible way to die. And this is not the sort of things that we to day would pay much attention to when we look back. But if you could bring back someone from that era and watch one of these executions on television together, they would notice things that maybe we wouldn't. I mean, for example, were they dragged to the scaffold, or the gallows, or