How’s this for irony? In the middle of the Swinging Sixties, Great Britain abolished hanging. On Nov. 9, 1965, it stopped swinging. Great news for progressives; less so for Harry Wade, the nation’s second-best hangman, in Martin McDonagh’s “Hangmen.” As characters go, Wade is pure McDonagh – right up there with the two-bit hitmen of... Read more »![]()
