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The King v. Picariello and Lassandro
- Artist
- Giselle Amantea
- Date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Canadian Stud
- Format
- Artists' Books
- Details
- Softcover
- ISBN
- 978-0-7727-8957-0
- Size
- 16 × 20 × 1 cm
- Length
- 134
In 1923, two Italian immigrants–Filumena “Florence” Lassandro and Emilio Picariello–were hanged for the murder of an Alberta Provincial Police officer. This book is Amantea’s retelling of their story in hundreds of original drawings and excerpted documents, both of which are built from archival photographs, family albums, newspaper reports, official case files, and gangster and film noir stills. A politically charged event–even for an execution–this double hanging was more unusual in that the rapid conviction and execution of these two was seen, even at the time, as another outrageous application of prohibition laws (as this was a bootlegging-related case) and institutionalized racism. (Many believed that were Lassandro of English descent she would have been given life in prison, as women usually were, indeed, Lassandro was the last woman to be hanged in that province.)
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