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 open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in ...
Lire la suiteThis book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons ...
Lire la suiteThis book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and ...
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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