Hangman The Life and Times of Alexander Green, Public Executioner to the Colony of New South Wales

Alexander Green dispatched 409 offenders in his official role of hangman and finisher of the law in the colony of New South Wales. A convicted thief, he arrived in Sydney in 1824 on a life sentence. Conditionally pardoned a year later, he soon became official flogger and assistant hangman, graduating to hangman-in-chief, a job he held for nearly thirty years.