@booklet {1618, title = {"The Executioner"}, howpublished = {Astounding Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {56.5}, year = {1956}, note = {

Rpt. in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 84-120. U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961), 84-120.\ 

}, month = {January 1956}, pages = {8-38}, abstract = {

Standard authoritarian dystopia except for the judicial system which is based on a trial by ordeal. If you survive, you were innocent.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008)} }