This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth ...
Lire la suiteThose convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...
Lire la suiteThis book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking ...
Lire la suiteThis book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons ...
Lire la suiteThis book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth ...
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