There are some incredible stories herein, badly conducted hangings, botched executions like that of Eva Dugan and the hanging of innocent men and women, miraculous survivals and horrific deaths. Writer Amanda Howard has uncovered many relatively unknown stories, delving into case studies of individuals and even entire communities. The Story of the Hanged takes the reader on a journey throughout the extensive history of hangings not only judicial executions but the use of it has a cause of death in murders and suicide Amanda Howard details the evolution of what was once a common method of capital punishment from the development of the drop to the invention of the gallows at Tyburn.