Anthony Galvin

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Anthony Galvin trained as a physicist before working for a decade as a crime journalist for a daily paper in Europe's toughest city. Now he travels the world performing magic, ventriloquism and hypnotism.

He has worked as a hotel manager, radio presenter, Arctic skidoo driver, and many other jobs. He briefly held the world record for the longest public lecture (at sixty two hours) and spends every winter in the Arctic.

In his spare time he enjoys martial arts, hill-walking, and competitive public speaking.

He writes factual books under his own name, and fiction under a variety of pen names, including Jim Gallows and Dean Carson.
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“In support of the assertion that the law is an ass, the Supreme Court ruled in 1993 that proof of innocence was not grounds for the Supreme Court stepping in and stopping an execution. New trials can only be granted in cases of procedural screwups, not in cases of new evidence being uncovered. It was a landmark judgment that has condemned several innocent people to death.”
Anthony Galvin, Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty

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